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NSA Journalist Glenn Greenwald’s Partner Reportedly Detained at Airport for 9 Hours, Questioned Under Terrorism Act 19 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
The Guardian, Greenwald’s employer, reports the journalist’s partner, David Miranda, was held for nearly nine hours and questioned under the Terrorism Act at the UK’s Heathrow airport. Officials also ...
NSA, Gen X, and Gen Y 18 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
the NSA and their fellow swimmers in the acronym soup of the intelligence-industrial complex are increasingly reliant on nomadic contractor employees, and increasingly subject to staff churn. There is...
CoderFaire Nashville 2013 Keynote: “All You Jokers” 17 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Here’s a link to the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/pmjones88/all-you-jokers Seeing as we don’t have a joind.in event registered, please leave your comments about the “All You Jokers” talk here. Th...
Holder seeks to avert mandatory minimum sentences for some low-level drug offenders 12 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is set to announce Monday that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses ...
Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying 9 Aug 2013 | 09:21 pm
“We knew USG would come after us”. That’s why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service. It hadn’t been told to provide data to the...
T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security 9 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
With little fanfare, the agency best known for airport screenings has vastly expanded its reach to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway weigh stations and train terminals. Not everyone is...
There Is No Private Mortgage Market in the US 7 Aug 2013 | 06:18 am
The government currently backs about 90 percent of newly issued mortgages, through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs. To all intents and pu...
Your Help Is Hurting: How Church Foreign Aid Programs Make Things Worse 6 Aug 2013 | 08:46 am
When you try to help, you try to give things, you start to have the consequences. There’s an author Bob Lupton, who really nails it when he says that when he gave something the first time, there was g...
Subway Stabbing Victim Can’t Sue NYPD For Failing To Save Him 29 Jul 2013 | 07:21 pm
A man who was brutally stabbed by Brooklyn subway slasher Maksim Gelman two years ago had his negligence case against the city dismissed in court yesterday, despite the fact that two transit officers ...
Cab driver falsely accused of rape saved by his phone app 26 Jul 2013 | 06:50 pm
Mohammed Asif was left in tears in a police cell after Astria Berwick told officers he had carried out an assault on her in his cab. But the 34-year-old eventually proved his innocence with a voice re...
