“We haven’t heard a lot about Ronald Reagan’s city on a hill,” the questioner Hugh Hewitt said rather plaintively, yearning for some optimism. The audience was getting the Ronald Reagan who blew up a wagon full of gunpowder in “Cattle Queen of Montana.”
via Fear, Loathing and Republican Debaters – The New York Times.
This video is just one of several videos he’s produced focused on defeating the security of Master Locks, which might surprise some viewers, considering that Bosnian Bill states the company has threatened to sue him several times.
via Skip the picks, expert uses hammer to open a Master Lock | CSO Online.
Bodies were still lying in the streets of Paris when CIA operatives began exploiting the resulting fear and anger to advance long-standing political agendas. They and their congressional allies instantly attempted to heap blame for the atrocity not on Islamic State but on several preexisting adversaries: Internet encryption, Silicon Valley’s privacy policies and Edward Snowden.
via Glenn Greenwald: Why the CIA is smearing Edward Snowden after the Paris attacks – LA Times.
In other words, the problem in this case was not a lack of data, but a failure to act on information authorities already had.
via Mass Surveillance Isn’t the Answer to Fighting Terrorism – The New York Times.
“I have asked for help. And I haven’t gotten any help,” Feinstein said Monday in an interview with MSNBC. “If you create a product that allows evil monsters to communicate in this way, to behead children, to strike innocents, whether it’s at a game in a stadium, in a small restaurant in Paris, take down an airliner, that’s a big problem.”
via Paris Attacks Renew Call for Access to Encrypted Messages – Bloomberg Business.
From: Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS
Any terrorist capable of tying his own shoe — let alone carrying out a significant attack — has known for decades that speaking on open telephone and internet lines was to be avoided due to U.S. surveillance. As one Twitter commentator put it yesterday when mocking this new It’s-Snowden’s-Fault game: “Dude, the drug dealers from the Wire knew not to use cell phones.”
