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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level : The Fourth Amendment’s shield against invasive searches reaches only partially across the border, a federal appeals court ruled this week, finding that the nation’s spies don't need a court order to wiretap an American overseas, though there has to be a good reason for listening in. The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals ruling [.pdf] fills in a gap in surveillance...
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Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
By Ryan Singel Wired November 20, 2008 If you are New York's police commissioner, what does it take to figure out when your city's anti-terrorism squad has gone rogue? Well, if building files on political protesters with high-tech bicycles didn't clue you in, having the Bush administration reject the units' wiretapping plans as too sweeping ought to. I mean, when the Justice Department...
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
CIA Can Hide Torture Allegations, Court Rules By Ryan Singel October 29, 2008 7:41:33 PM Categories: Sunshine and Secrecy Courtesy Of Wired Blog Network The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to...
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TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Ryan Singel / Wired News: Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren’t Really Looking for Him — When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet and upgraded to the premium membership that would let him contact long …
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Ryan Singel writes on Wired News : When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush's warrantless domestic wiretapping. Since the New York Times first revealed in 2005 that the NSA was eavesdropping on citizen's overseas phone calls and e-mails, few additional details about the...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
The Bush administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress, and subpoenaed the phone records of investigative reporters. Credit: Monsivais/AP By Ryan Singel Wired 11.10.08 When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush's warrantless domestic wiretapping....
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Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Published on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by Wired Ryan Singel When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush's warrantless domestic wiretapping. Since The New York Times first revealed in 2005 that the NSA was eavesdropping on citizens' overseas phone calls and e-mail, few additional...
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The Remote Viewer (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Politics : Online Rights By Ryan Singel 3 hours ago The Bush Administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress, and subpoenaed the phone records of investigative reporters. Credit: Monsivais/AP When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won’t just get a new president; they might finally learn the full…
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level : The net's authority over domain names is set to pull the plug on an Estonia-based seller of domain names that security researchers say has been a refuge for cyber-criminals for years. ICANN told the EstDomains on Tuesday that it was revoking its accreditation since it learned the company's president Vladimir Tsastin had been convicted in February in...
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level : Websites of political groups fighting anti-gay marriage amendments were hit by a flood of fake traffic Wednesday, in an apparent attempt to muzzle the sites and interfere with a fundraising effort, California's No on Prop 8 group said Thursday. The Secret Service is now investigating the denial-of-service attack on NOonprop8.com , an attack that began...
