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Tempora
I will take the heat. You read it here first. The Tempora programme of Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping agency is known in the intelligence world as a “full take”. Britain is charging ahead of the pack to...
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Avoid Being Despised And Hated
There’s nothing more terrifying than walking down the street. I like audiobooks. A few years ago I got a free copy of Machiavelli’s The Prince, and I began to listen to it at night. I would fall asleep...
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Absolutions II
It was bad touch, your honor. This morning I saw that The Guardian has jumped on Jacob Appelbaum’s bandwagon with an editorial by Dan Gillmor titled: Google, Yahoo et al have the power (and money) to...
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It’s A Small, Small World *Update*
… and the crazy thing is that he’s CIA. I’m getting a little tired of the debates swirling around the NSA, GCHQ and yes, even the hero of the story. Well-intentioned people know what has to be done: a...
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Comparative Literature
…and representing California… Sometimes the best thing a writer can do is to sit back and reflect. I spent the last few days doing that, and I realized that there’s something big about the Snowden Saga...
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Control, Baby!
Two parts to a killer post today: 1) Jacob Appelbaum fulfills his intelligence mission and 2) he is a harbinger of digital social disease (BadBIOS). On with the show! Jacob: “Look at that! It’s...
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Edward Snowden and William Colby
Several months ago I wrote about Edward Snowden’s usefulness to those in the ‘intelligence community’ who feel threatened by rampant outsourcing. I speculated that Snowden’s position as a...
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