List Of Americans Who Have Been Individually Spied On Will Soon Be Released "biggest disclosure yet"

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9. Thanks for all the work you did on this post....

Wonder if you would consider posting this part over at "Progressive Media Resources?"

This part I snipped from your OP or split it into two separate posts. It would be good to have for a read and watch in PMG Group to keep it available for awhile longer than here in GD?:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1269




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Oh, and here's some troubling news on the current anti-spying bill:


Snowden's Wrong, Our Gov't Wants To Expand...

...surveillance of the U.S. public by more comprehensively outsourcing it. These statements in my previous sentence are basic facts.

The entire concept that the government wants to "rein in" bulk collection by the NSA, is technically true. But, it's extremely deceptive. Our government is actively working to gut HR 3361/S 1699. This is another inconvenient fact.

HR 3361/S 1699 (HR 3361 has been passed by the House and is now in the Senate as S 1699) will provide our government with more comprehensive powers and tools to surveil our own country.

And, it will--far more likely than not--be passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a form similar to what the House passed, and then it will, more than likely, be passed by the full Senate and signed into law by a President who's been--from the get-go--all over this process to insure it IS gutted.

Per Marcy Wheeler, on Monday...

...Right now, we’re looking at a bill that outsources an expanded phone dragnet to the telecoms (with some advantages and some drawbacks), but along the way resets other programs to what they were before the FISC reined them in from 2009 to 2011. That’s the starting point. With a vote count that leaves us susceptible to further corruption of the bill along the way.

Edward Snowden risked his freedom to try to rein in the dragnet, and instead, as of right now it looks like Congress will expand it.

By the way, on top of everything else, it should be noted that the USA Freedom Act (HR 3361) extends (most notably the Section 215 provisions in) the Patriot Act sunset clause by two years, through 2017.

I realize Ed Snowden would like to think that the government "ending" the NSA's bulk collection of domestic surveillance is something that his efforts have accomplished. But, our government is making sure just the opposite will occur.

And, yes, Marcy's right about the reality that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote the status quo line on this. What else may one say when Democrats like Schumer, Feinstein, Klobuchar and Whitehouse are ready to do whatever it takes to "protect our country"...just as long as they may spin a bullsh*t line like, "We've reined in bulk collection of the NSA," to provide a Kafkaesque version of "Mission Accomplished" to spin all of us in the unwashed masses into thinking that something's actually changing here!

You see, technically, something IS changing! Our government is EXPANDING domestic surveillance by outsourcing it.

by bobswern on Wed May 28, 2014 at 10:49 PM PDT (Daily Kos)






Helpful resources: (from another blog)

• Prism Break: Stop reporting your online activities to the security
• industrial complex with these free alternatives to common software.
• Tails: A live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer
• from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving consumer privacy.
• UnlistMy.Info: Find out which top Online sites store data about you.

• PGP over e-mail

• OTR over text (Jabber, Facebook chat, etc. use XMPP which is compatible with OTR)

• FireChat and CryptoCat (new services for web-based community discussion, still being worked on)

• DuckDuckGo instead of Google

• RedPhone or Jitsi instead of Skype

• Google+ Isn't A Social Network - It's The Matrix -- The Guardian

• Project Chess: Report says Skype worked on secret project to provide chats -- Slate says it is proven Microsoft, owner of Skype lied to the public about an effort to ensure all Skype calls could be -- and are legally, per terms of service -- monitored through company-installed backdoors, this also seems to be true of Apple iOS, unfortunately. The NSA and Apple assured each other in one of the Snowden briefs that any iPhone can be easily cracked. (What of Android, you ask? Not unless it's jailbroken: Google has made Hangouts, part of Google+, an automatic requirement on users of new phones.)

Red Pills:

• NSA Spying on Americans



A presentation to the CCC Conference on its 30th anniversary by Jacob "@ioerror" Applebaum.

The number of Youtube comments seems to have leveled off at 1,337 for some reason... just saying.