New Law Says Web Sites Would Have to Inform Law Enforcement about...
Social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube would be required to report “terrorist” videos and other content posted by users to federal authorities under legislation approved this past week by the...
View ArticlePower is No Substitute for Knowledge
I welcome guest blogger William Astore today, whose own blog, The Contrary Perspective, is always worth your time. Bill? Francis Bacon is famous for the aphorism, “Knowledge is power.” Yet the reverse...
View ArticleYour Business Been Hacked? Thanks NSA!
It appears that the NSA (“or someone”) hacked into the code of a popular firewall and planted a password in there that would allow them access as needed. That means the NSA (“or someone”) would be able...
View ArticlePolice are Calculating Your ‘Threat Score’ to Decide How to Treat You
I watched a documentary about North Korea which explained how the government there assigns a score to each citizen, based on how large a threat to the regime s/he is perceived to be. When I lived in...
View ArticleYou Should Care About Apple, Your iPhone and the FBI
Yep, you should care. Very much. Hang up the phone and listen. What This is All About The FBI wants Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the attackers who killed 14 people in the December San...
View ArticleFBI and Access to NSA Data on Americans
Hear that hissing sound? That is the last gasps for air from the Bill of Rights. The Bill is one breath away from hell. The FBI has quietly revised its rules for searching data involving Americans’...
View ArticleFBI Has New Plan to Spy on High School Students
The FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies as potential future terrorists, warning that such “extremists” are in the same category as...
View ArticleCalling Bull on Obama’s Call for Law Enforcement Access to Encryption
As the government’s fight to eliminate encryption as we know it, and ensure themselves unfettered access to all of all Americans’ communications, spreads out of the most-mediagenic example with Apple,...
View ArticleTalking More About Apple, Encryption and the Fourth Amendment
I had a chance to drop by Ron Paul’s web show to talk more about Apple, Encryption, the evil genius of the FBI/NSA, and the Fourth Amendment. Related Articles: 15 Questions for Robert Mueller...
View ArticleHidden Mics as Part of Government Surveillance Program
In another example of multi-dimensional clash among the Fourth Amendment, privacy, technology and the surveillance state, hidden microphones that are part of a broad, public clandestine government...
View ArticleThinking Like an Intelligence Officer: Anthony Weiner and Russian Spies
There are many reasons why Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey is interested in the emails on Anthony Weiner’s home computer, emails which may include United States government...
View ArticleRequiem for the Obama Administration, Trump Edition
The problems many are now predicting under the Trump administration did not start on November 8. The near-unrestrained executive power claimed by the Obama administration will be transferred to the...
View ArticleThe Terrifying Executive We Need for the Wrong Reasons
I understand why all of the often false, usually bombastic, reporting on Trump is angering me. You know the stuff — take a “fact,” real or fully made up, and conflate it with some apocalyptic...
View ArticleTradecraft: Why Spies Knew the Hunter Biden Emails Were Not Russia Disinfo
Hunter Biden just paid over a million dollars in back taxes for income he never claimed, but which was found in his emails, the ones from his laptop that had been dismissed by the MSM as Russian...
View ArticleWhat is Section 702 and Why Should You Fear It
You’ve been warned — a fight over the U.S. government’s ability to spy on its own citizens is coming to Congress. Section 702 is up for renewal again in December. Section 702 grew out of an illegal...
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