More Links on the Snowden Documents

More Links on the Snowden Documents



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html or http://tinyurl.com/mm3ttqt
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/07/prism_explained_powerpoint_slides_glenn_greenwald_profiled_and_other_reccommended.html or http://tinyurl.com/lvpx739

The whistleblower is Edward Snowden.  I consider him an American hero.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance or http://tinyurl.com/pkm26ps

Someone needs to write an essay parsing all of the precisely worded denials.  Apple has never heard the word "PRISM," but could have known of the program under a different name.  Google maintained that there is no government "back door," but left open the possibility that the data could have been just handed over.  Obama said that the government isn't "listening to your telephone calls," ignoring 1) the metadata, 2) the fact that computers could be doing all of the listening, and 3) that text-to-speech results in phone calls being read and not listened to. And so on and on and on.

An NSA spying timeline:
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline

Speculation about PRISM:
http://unhandled.com/2013/06/07/a-taxonomy-of-prism-possibilities/
http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2013/06/brainstorming-few-hypotheses-about-prism.html or http://tinyurl.com/qgeuuby

Defenses of NSA surveillance:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/06/07/nsas-prism-sounds-like-a-darn-good-idea-to-me-this-is-what-governments-are-for/ or http://tinyurl.com/lyrqs5k
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/making-a-mountain-out-of-a-digital-molehill.html or http://tinyurl.com/kjqb7ve
http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2013/06/sensationalizing-cyber-surveillance.html or http://tinyurl.com/keljyyk

More essays worth reading:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/birth-of-the-surveillance-state/276650/ or http://tinyurl.com/lfvb32d
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/security-state-creep-the-real-nsa-scandal-is-whats-legal/276625/ or http://tinyurl.com/lnlwde4
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-numbers/
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/07/dont_defend_the_dragnet/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-irrationality-of-giving-up-this-much-liberty-to-fight-terror/276695/ or http://tinyurl.com/lrk2jcr
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/09/edward_snowden_why_did_the_nsa_whistleblower_have_access_to_prism_and_other.html or http://tinyurl.com/l4pfgb4
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/ or http://tinyurl.com/l6qvege
http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/06/surveillance-legitimacy/
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130610082630-2259773-president-obama-s-flawed-defense-of-surveillance-4-responses or http://tinyurl.com/lfnbofj

NSA surveillance reimagined as children's books:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2013/jun/09/nsa-kids-books-twitter-pictures#/?picture=410409133&index=0 or http://tinyurl.com/opt85ar

Claims that PRISM foiled a terrorist attack have been debunked:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/public-documents-contradict-claim-email-spying-foiled-terror or http://tinyurl.com/lyq7vse

A collection of headlines:
http://thelibertarianforum.com/topic/2327-the-nsa-and-the-surveilance-state-scandals/ or http://tinyurl.com/knxqj35

Interesting comments by someone who thinks Snowden is a well-intentioned fool.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/government_secr.html#c1497091 or http://tinyurl.com/ktje7kj

The *Economist* speculates on the political factors that would lead Obama to allow this. http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/06/why-we-spy or http://tinyurl.com/lcaxmvw


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