Marklar's Blog Posts Tagged 'wiretapping' (8)

With The NSA, The GCHQ, The FRA Planting Crypto Backdoors In Infrastructure, They Are Now The Enemy Of All Mankind

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By Rick Falkvinge

The security services of the US, UK, and Sweden have been actively working…

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Added by Marklar on September 8, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Stasi vs. the NSA Back to Back Who's Worse - a Visual Guide

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by : Rick Falkvinge

If you were to compare the evil, reprehensible Stasi to the NSA side by side in a visual comparison, who’s the worse surveillance hawk? The people over at OpenDataCity have put together a nice visual guide with astonishing…

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Added by Marklar on July 9, 2013 at 10:31pm — 4 Comments

Cointelpro, Provacateurs,Disinfo Agents.

Added by Marklar on April 9, 2010 at 11:04am — 3 Comments

Normalizing The Police State

By Allison Kilkenny

March 10, 2010 "True/Slant" -- Bob Herbert recently wrote about the overzealous enforcement of “peace officers” assigned to New York City schools. The officers are accused of detaining, searching, handcuffing, and arresting students for silly things like drawing on…

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Added by Marklar on March 11, 2010 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

High School Spied On Students At Home Via Their Laptops

February 19, 2010

Wow, can this be true? Truly a situation in which “Big Brother” comparisons are no exaggeration. It’s being reported that the Lower Merion School

District, in a wealthy suburb of Philadelphia, is being sued for spying

on its students at home, after issuing the students laptops with

webcams that could be covertly activated by school administrators for

surveillance, writes…

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Added by Marklar on February 19, 2010 at 5:08pm — No Comments

Murdoch Papers Paid £1m to Gag Phone-hacking Victims

By Nick Davies

July 14, 2009 "The Guardian" -- Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 15, 2009 at 12:03am — No Comments

Jane Harman: Angry, Partisan, Civil Liberties Extremist

Published on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 by Salon.com

by Glenn Greenwald

Blue Dog Rep. Jane Harman -- once the most vigorous Democratic cheerleader of Bush's NSA warrantless eavesdropping program -- is rip-roarin' angry today. Apparently, her private conversations were eavesdropped on by the U.S. Government! This is a grave outrage that, as she told Andrea Mitchell just moments ago, demands a… Continue

Added by Marklar on April 22, 2009 at 9:19pm — 1 Comment

Cheney: Bush's actions legal if not impeached

Andrew McLemore

Published: Sunday January 4, 2009

If you don't get punished, you didn't go anything wrong, right?

That's the message Vice President Dick Cheney gave in an interview with CBS' Bob Schieffer on Sunday, suggesting that a president's actions are legal if those actions didn't result in his impeachment.

Asked by Schieffer if he believed that anything the president does in time of war is legal, Cheney said there is… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 5, 2009 at 1:40pm — No Comments