Tim Wu on a new rule that violates Obama’s promise of net neutrality: http://nyr.kr/1jU2AQ2
“It threatens to make the Internet just like everything else in American society: unequal in a way that deeply threatens our long-term prosperity.”
Above: Obama at Coe College, in 2007. Photograph by David Lienemann/AP.
“This decision reminds us that what no individual conscience can change, a free press can. My efforts would have been meaningless without the dedication, passion, and skill of these newspapers, and they have my gratitude and respect for their extraordinary service to our society. Their work has given us a better future and a more accountable democracy.”
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Edward Snowden in his statement after the Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize along with the Washington Post.
“Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. We build systems that spy on people in exchange for services. Corporations call it marketing.”
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Bruce Schneier, security technologist, in a presentation at the SOURCE Boston conference.
Inside a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden shared secrets with journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Ewen MacAskill—and then disappeared.
Greenwald and Poitras, currently in Berlin, will attend Friday’s Polk Awards ceremony in New York City. The two journalists are sharing the prestigious journalism award with The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill and with Barton Gellman, who has led The Washington Post’s reporting on the NSA documents. Greenwald and Poitras interviewed Snowden last June in Hong Kong as he first revealed himself.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Greenwald said he’s motivated to return because “certain factions in the U.S. government have deliberately intensified the threatening climate for journalists.”
Guardian:The National Security Agency has spied on human rights groups, Edward Snowden tells the Council of Europe.
He told the group: "The NSA has targeted leaders and staff members of these sorts of organisations, including domestically within the borders of the United States.”
Snowden listed Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as among the bodies the NSA has spied on.
Photo: Edward Snowden speaks via video link with members of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters via The Guardian
Writing the program for Surveillance.01. The font we’re using in some of the captions is ZXX. It was developed by Sang Mun, a former contractor with the National Security Agency (NSA). ZXX is designed to confound OCR text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker). It does this by either misdirecting information or sometimes not giving any at all. Its name, ZXX, comes the Library of Congress’ designation for what language a book is written in. Code “ZXX” is used when there is: “No linguistic content; Not applicable.” #Surveillance01 #data(in)security #SangMun #NSA @NYMediacenter @axelarnbak @susanemcg @brenthoff http://ift.tt/1hZvlsn
In a single year, the public learned more information about the NSA and its global surveillance dragnet than we learned during the previous 30 years combined. Much of that knowledge can be attributed to whistleblower Edward Snowden and the journalists tirelessly working to inform the public about the NSA’s surveillance programs. But another force, one that has received far less attention, has been hard at work, too: the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.
The National Security Agency (NSA) has created a surveillance system that can record “100 percent” of a foreign country’s phone calls, allowing it to play back and listen to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
