NSA Can Track You Through Your Phone’s Battery Use
I see you out there. Sitting in front of your computer. I see what you’re wearing, who you are with. I know where you have been today, and who you interacted with. I know where you were last night....
View ArticleThat’s What Friends Are For: Israel Spied on U.S. Talks with Iran
So U.S. counter-surveillance gets whooped by Israel, who then uses information gathered on Iran nuclear talks so that Netanyahu can try and convince Congress to torpedo Obama’s negotiations with Iran...
View ArticleDEA Secretly Tracked Billions of Americans’ Calls a Decade Before 9/11
While the Snowden-NSA revelations continue to shock Americans on a daily basis, and illustrate how intrusive the government is in our lives, and how casually it violates our Fourth Amendment right...
View ArticleGovernment Can Kill Cell Service During “Emergencies”
The government can kill all cell service in a designated area of its choice during “emergencies,” and does not want to disclose any details about how or when they might employ this. Implications for...
View ArticleParanoia in a September 12 World
It got me. Paranoia. Who is watching? What are the consequences in a September 12 world of things that used to be innocent? I began researching materials online that advise, in English, how someone...
View ArticleSecurity Guard at U.S. Embassy Arrested as a Terrorist
So this was only in Egypt, where there’s no terrorism threat anyway, so meh. No, wait, this is something. To the shock of U.S. officials, local authorities arrested an Egyptian security guard and...
View ArticleYou Want to Commit Espionage with Hacked Personnel Data?
Did the most-recent, recent, breach of United States government personnel files significantly compromise American security? Yes. Could a foreign government make use of such information to spy on the...
View ArticleNSA Summer Camps Look to Recruit Them When They’re Young
Get to them while they’re young, and you’ll have them for life. Who said that? Was it Walt Disney? Willy Wonka? The director of the Hitler Youth? Maybe all of them, but it also applies to the NSA. Long...
View ArticlePost-Constitutional America: What We’ve Lost Since 9/11
Ed Snowden is right. We have lost too many of our freedoms. What the hell happened? The United States has entered its third great era is what happened. The first, starting from the colonists’ arrival,...
View ArticleWeb Ads (and the NSA) Use Inaudible Sound to Link and Track Your Devices
Remember how Ed Snowden told us to stick black tape over our webcams, as the NSA had learned to turn them on remotely without triggering the little light? Well, you better stick some tape over your...
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 ArticleWe Are Still Alive (Non-Terrorism Edition)
I survived. America, and the world, and you, survived. We awoke the first day of 2016 to find that once again, using the extraordinary power of fear, we defeated the terrorists. Hard as it is to...
View ArticleWhite House Meets With Silicon Valley Execs to “Disrupt” ISIS Online
Since our providers and tech makers in Silicon Valley are already deep in bed with the NSA to help spy on us, it should be little surprise that the White House now wants them to climb on board another...
View ArticleTwo Americans Detained in Iran Are Not Coming Home
Four American prisoners, including detained Washington Post journalist Jason Resaian, Saeed Adedini, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, were released as part of a deal with...
View ArticleJudge Orders Apple to Help FBI Hack San Bernardino Shooter’s Phone
A magistrate judge in California on Tuesday ordered Apple to help the FBI retrieve encrypted data on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers. Investigators have so far been unable to gain...
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 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: Back to the Future: The Unanswered...
View ArticleFreedom in North Korea (I Hate Travel Stories About North Korea)
Every travel story about North Korea reads the same: We went to North Korea voluntarily, and were shocked to find that we couldn’t like hang out at clubs with everyday Koreans, and the dudes there,...
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