Month: July 2013

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security state

FISA Court – Not a Court – an Administrative Rubber Stamp – Bureaucrats Dressed Up as Judges

July 11, 2013 Comments Off on FISA Court – Not a Court – an Administrative Rubber Stamp – Bureaucrats Dressed Up as Judges
The government and the press continue to refer to the FISA Court as a judicial review, a third party oversight of the government’s intrusions on our privacy. This misuse of words and concepts needs correction. 3657 Share this:TweetLike this:Like Loading...
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The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata

July 9, 2013 Comments Off on The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata
With the recent revelations of the NSA vacuum cleaner collecting metadata about every aspect of our lives we have been subjected to calming incantations, “We are only collecting metadata, we aren’t looking at the content”. As I (and many others) have pointed out earlier, this is complete nonsense.  3640 Share --->> read more -->>
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economy

Wall St – not about investing but fixing the game

July 9, 2013 Comments Off on Wall St – not about investing but fixing the game
An article in the NY TImes today reports that NY Attorney General Schneiderman is pursuing various information providers, Thomson Reuters in the immediate case, for their practices of selling market sensitive information preferntially. Those paying a premium get information several minutes before its release to the general public. This is --->> read more -->>