On Sunday, May 5, Wikileaks dropped their newest Vault 7 document set, Archimedes; their latest exposure of CIA hacking tools.
Privacy & Tech
Pilot TSA Program Focuses on Additional Screening for Paper Products
In return for the privilege of being sandwiched together with a bunch of strangers, their personalities, and their bodily functions, we ‘agree’ to look away – literally – as another complete stranger touches us in ways we spend a good number of years teaching our kids are not okay. But it’s about to get worse.
Twitter Censoring Ramps Up Further Against Conservatives
Free speech is under attack across America and nowhere is this more evident than on the social platform of Twitter.
Burger King’s Creepy Hijack Ad Backfires Hilariously
By now you’ve probably heard about the Burger King TV commercial, in which a young employee says, “Ok, Google, what is the Whopper burger?” His sentence triggered Google-enabled devices to pull up the Wikipedia entry for the Whopper sandwich, which the Burger King marketing director had conveniently just edited to reflect more commercialized text…and then it all went wrong.
Should The American Public Blindly Trust James Clapper?
To say that former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Director James Clapper has a credibility problem would be an understatement. Yet, the mainstream media and President Donald Trump’s Democratic Party opponents are blindly believing everything that Clapper utters without any direct challenges to his past fibs.
GOP Picks Sides On Privacy: Anyone Will Be Able To Buy Your Internet History
What happened with this privacy bill was unfortunate. What would be even more shameful would be for conservatives to line up in blind support. Agree with the GOP if you must, but at least take the time to form your own opinion first.
5 Ways You Are Being Spied On That You Probably Haven’t Thought About
A host of companies and your own government are already spying on you, and have been for some time — but we continue to shrug it off. Maybe that’s because we simply don’t know about all the ways we’re being catalogued. Maybe we already know, somewhere in our heads, but we’ve gotten so used to the convenience that we have decided it’s a worthy trade. Either way, here are five ways you probably haven’t thought of yet.
NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney on Tucker Carlson 3.24.17
If you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. Former NSA employee William Binney was on the Tucker Carlson Show Friday night to explain that yes, President Trump was under surveillance — just like everyone else in America.
LN TecWeek for 3.24.17: Bitcoin No Longer Anonymous
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