In the latest undercover Project Veritas video investigation, current and former Twitter employees are on camera explaining steps the social media giant is taking to censor political content that they don’t like. This video release follows the first undercover Twitter exposé Project Veritas released on January 10th which showed Twitter Senior Network Security Engineer Clay […]
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U.S. Supreme Court to Review Bid to Collect Internet Sales Tax…
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider freeing state and local governments to collect billions of dollars in sales taxes from online retailers, agreeing to revisit a 26-year-old ruling that has made much of the internet a tax-free zone. Heeding calls from traditional retailers and dozens of states, the justices said they’ll hear South Dakota’s contention […]
Ecuador and Assange by Craig Murray…
It is for the government of Ecuador, not the UK, to determine who is an Ecuadorian citizen. It is for the government of Ecuador, not the UK, to determine who is an Ecuadorian diplomat. It is not in the least unusual for Julian Assange to become an Ecuadorian citizen. Having been granted political asylum, and […]
The Same Democrats Who Denounce Donald Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers by Glenn Greenwald…
Leading congressional Democrats have spent the last year relentlessly accusing Donald Trump of being controlled by or treasonously loyal to a hostile foreign power. Over the last several months, they have added to those disloyalty charges a new set of alleged crimes: abusing the powers of the executive branch — including the Justice Department and […]
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Top U.S. Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site…
Revenge porn, where people share intimate images of others in order to intimidate, harass, or embarrass, is rampant. Now, data obtained by a security analyst and shared with The Daily Beast reveals the behind-the-scenes of the epicenter of revenge porn: a notorious image board called Anon-IB, where users constantly upload non-consensual imagery, comment on it, […]
With Support From Nancy Pelosi, House Gives Trump Administration Broad Latitude to Spy on Americans…
With bipartisan backing, the House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would renew one of the government’s most sweeping surveillance authorities for six years with minimal changes. The measure, which passed 256-164, reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was set to expire later this month. The law was first passed […]
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The House Intelligence Committee’s Section 702 Bill is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing…
House leadership is about to make another attempt at what it failed to do in December: push through an updated version of the House Intelligence Committee’s FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 by claiming the bill is a surveillance reform measure. The bill would reauthorize and expand – rather than reform – Section 702 of […]
Lawmakers Will Duke It Out Over Surveillance Bill, Section 702, on Thursday…
A bicameral and bipartisan group of lawmakers is threatening to block legislation in the House that would extend a controversial spying program. Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash, joined by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and roughly a dozen other Republicans and Democrats from both chambers of Congress railed against Section 702 of the […]
The Base Bill for 702 Reauthorization: Serial Admissions Oversight Committees Haven’t Been Doing Their Jobs…
On Tuesday, the Rules Committee will do rules for a 702 reauthorization bill that is based on the HPSCI bill, but with some improvements designed to get Adam Schiff and Bob Goodlatte on board. The changes are: Eliminates expansion to definition of foreign power…
Second Developer of WikiLeaks-Inspired “SecureDrop” Commits Suicide at 36…
A second member of a three-man team who created a secure system for whistleblowers to submit information to news outlets has committed suicide at the age of 36, reports the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Software engineer James Dolan took his own life nearly five years to the day after the death of “SecureDrop” co-creator […]
Julian Assange Secures an Ecuadorian Passport…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted a passport for Ecuador after taking asylum in the country’s London embassy since 2012. The news broke that Assange had received his passport from the government Wednesday, hours after he uploaded a picture of himself wearing an Ecuadorian soccer jersey to his Twitter. The picture led to speculation that […]
Trump Orders Intelligence Community to Develop Procedures When “Unmasking” Americans…
President Donald Trump ordered late Tuesday that the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats put in place procedures for intelligence and law enforcement officials requesting the unmasking of American citizens and the dissemination of those names in foreign intelligence reports, according to a White House memorandum obtained by this reporter. Trump has given the DNI […]
Highly Classified Spy Satellite Is a “Total Loss” After SpaceX Mission Fails…
On Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. EST, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the secretive Zuma satellite into space aboard its Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral. However, less than a day later, the WSJ reports that the secretive spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman for the U.S. government military industrial complex, and worth billions “is presumed to […]
[Guide] How to Protect Your Devices Against Meltdown and Spectre Attacks…
Recently uncovered two huge processor vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre have taken the whole world by storm, while vendors are rushing out to patch the vulnerabilities in its products. The issues apply to all modern processors and affect nearly all operating systems (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, FreeBSD, and more), smartphones and other computing devices […]
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NSA’s Rogers to Retire this Spring…
NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers has decided he will retire this spring, two former U.S. intelligence officials told POLITICO, ending a near four-year tenure bookended by major leaks that rattled the agency. It’s expected that President Donald Trump will nominate Rogers’ successor this month, putting a final Senate confirmation vote two to three months away. […]
NSA Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of Information Over 20 Years…
A former NSA contractor is expected to plead guilty in what officials say may be the largest heist of intelligence data in U.S. history. On Wednesday, attorneys for Navy veteran Harold Martin filed a guilty plea to one count of willful retention of national defense information. Martin was arrested in august of 2016 when law […]
Trump’s Attorneys Make Case for Freeing Julian Assange in Legal Filing…
President Donald Trump’s attorneys made a solid case for preemptively pardoning Julian Assange in a motion to dismiss a WikiLeaks-related lawsuit against the Trump campaign. The motion, filed on December 29, was in response to a lawsuit by two Democratic Party donors who allege that the Trump campaign and former adviser Roger Stone conspired with […]
Trump Draws Attention to Case Against Former Dem IT Aide Imran Awan…
President Trump is drawing attention to the mysterious federal court case against Imran Awan, the former IT aide to a number of congressional Democrats, including former Democratic National Committee chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Whatever happened to this Pakistani guy who worked with the DNC?” the president asked in an interview published Thursday by the New […]
The Birth of an Emoji: The Surprisingly Complex Process of Getting a Smiling Pile of Poop on Your Phone Revealed…
We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that’s sad? There’s loaf of bread and a croissant. But where’s the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy bear, a lobster, a petri dish or a tooth? These are the kind of questions that trigger heated debates and verbal […]
Chrome to Begin Blocking Ads in February…
Google yesterday announced that it will start blocking ads in its Chrome browser on Feb. 15. Websites that want to avoid the Chrome hammer can either shed several broad categories of online ads or pay a consortium of advertisers, advertising trade associations and technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, to become “certified.” “Starting on […]
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