Tag: National Security Agency
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Cassetteboy vs The Snoopers’ Charter
I’m hoping the genie is out of the bottle with encryption and even WhatsApp joining the end-to-end encryption battle, but there is no room for complacency. Certainly Teresa May and David Cameron want to spy on us, and already are. Like with Apple vs the FBI in the States it’s no longer something purely for…
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NSA Dick Pics Sheriff
YouTube has been pulled (and the official video is Geoblocked in the UK, because obviously John Olliver has no fans in his home country!) but it’s on Facebook, or for some time, maybe, Vid.Me or DailyMotion: John Olliver interviewed Edward Snowden, as well as grilling him he also helped him communicate to the American public…
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Public Service Messages
Some of you might recognise some of this footage from Godfrey Reggio’s 1974 commercials for the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union, as I used bits for one of my Kleptones videos. I got it from a documentary about Godfrey, but good to see the full adverts at last, they are beautiful. And they still seem…
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The Day We Fight Back
Two years ago, Radio Clash along with many other sites blacked out in opposition to SOPA and similar European laws such as ACTA. The former was stopped fairly quickly, and the latter fizzled out as European politicians realised how unpopular it was amongst their electorates as it was quite rightly perceived as a US attempt…
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When will we fight back?
A friend noticed the change in Cory Doctorow’s tone recently, he explains it as the anniversary of Aaron Schwartz’s death but a lot of us are despairing. Like Tim Berners-Lee warned middle of last year, there is an attempt to not only close up the Internet and make it some walled garden, a virtual shopping…
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Party at the NSA
Great and very topical song by YACHT that reminds me oddly of Le Tigre about the whole NSA debacle – donate to download or get a T-shirt, proceeds go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation! Although strangely I was half expecting a Miley Cyrus parody like this: