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• Galleon Chief Attacks Government’s Case Against Him

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the Galleon Group, said his hedge fund had based its investments on research and not, as the authorities claim, on inside information.
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• In Reply to S.E.C., Rajaratnam Attacks Wiretap Use

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund executive accused of masterminding a $20 million insider trading ring, responded to civil fraud charges on Tuesday, attacking investigators use of wiretaps and arguing that prosecutors omitted key facts in their original complaint.
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• State Secrets Privilege: The Puppets & Puppet Masters by Sibel Edmonds

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  by Sibel EdmondsFeatured WriterDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post23 November 2009It’s Time to Get the Facts StraightI want to revisit a topic which happens to be extremely important to me, both personally and politically, and even more important to our civil liberties.Some of you have already ...
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• Mushrooming Spy Scandal in Argentina

  
  Spy vs Spy — Authority: 474
  laht.com BUENOS AIRES – Revelations of illegal wiretapping by a former cop have sparked a war of words between the city’s conservative mayor and the center-left government of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez. Federal Cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez (no relation to the president) said Thursday that Mauricio ...
  4 days ago

• An Analysis of Warrantless Wiretapping – Part II by Richard Scott

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  by Richard ScottDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post19 November 2009Parental Controls on EveryoneIn Part one of my piece, I attempted to explain the nature and scope of the US Warrantless Wiretap Program and the growing Surveillance Regime being built in this country. In Part 2, I will compare and ...
  6 days ago

• NSA Is Giving Microsoft Some Help On Windows 7 Security

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 433
  By Kevin Whitelaw NPR | The National Security Agency has been working with Microsoft Corp. to help improve security measures for its new Windows 7 operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday. The confirmation of the NSA’s role, which began during the development of the software, is a sign of ...
  6 days ago

• Bush Administration Was Afraid It Would Have To Admit Telcos Hel...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 168
  With the EFF finally successful in getting the federal govt to hand over some lobbying documents involved in the process of granting telcos total immunity in lawsuits over warrantless wiretapping, the press is starting to go through the documents. read more
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• President Obama: Dont Lecture China on Censorship

  
  Democrats.com - The Aggressive Progressives! — Authority: 559
  By Dave Lindorff President Obama, in his visit to China, held a “town meeting” with Chinese students in which he praised openness and lectured them on the value of freedom of information, saying that he is a “supporter of non-censorship” and that open access to information was a “source of strength.” ...
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• How to fight the cops

  
  Suspense Author's Daily HotchPotch — Authority: 134
  People who think they are being wiretapped by the cops could disable the taps by sending a stream of text messages or making numerous VOIP calls to overwhelm the system’s thin bandwidth, researchers in Pennsylvania postulate.The researchers say they’ve found a vulnerability in U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, if ...
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• How to DDOS a federal wiretap

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S.The flaws they’ve found “represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation ...
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• Shortened Links to Live On, New Supreme Court Case Database, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 133
  The reguar Friday happy hour at the the $employer tried to break my daily posting streak. I’m not having that. Archiving of url shortened links If you wondered about the long term viability of shortened URLS, especially with the third party indexing of Twitter and other social messaging services, this is good ...
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• The FISA Amendments: Behind the Scenes

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 746
  I’ve been poring over the trove of documents the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained detailing the long process by which the FISA Amendments Act—which substantially expanded executive power to conduct sweeping surveillance with little oversight—was hammered out between Hill staffers and lawyers at the ...
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• How to DDOS a federal wiretap

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S. The flaws they’ve found “represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal ...
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• Lawyers Allege Ongoing ‘Dragnet’ Surveillance

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 760
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) On October 30, the Justice Department for the first time applied its new “state secrets” policy to a case charging the government with breaking the law. Open government advocates hoping for a significant change in the government’s stance toward secrecy in national security ...
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• FOIA Win for the EFF Finally, An Open Protocol for a Faster Web, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 133
  Is Google building out a phone service? This Wired piece builds on some earlier reporting about a rumored acquisition of Gizmo5 by the search giant. The article clarifies identifies the challenge to this notion coming to pass, namely that AT&T is already chumming the regulatory waters for Google over Voice. ...
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• CIA to pay $3 million so Horn will not oppose vacating Judges decision

  
  Whistleblower Protection Blog — Authority: 119
  The CIA has decided to pay Richard Horn $3 million for a unique settlement of a fifteen (15) year-old spying case. The government not only wants Horn to dismiss the case and release the CIA and State Department officials who spied on him, but the government also wants Horn to promise that he will not oppose the ...
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• FM newswire, 12 November – links to old-fashioned journalism

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 559
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news.Links to 4 interesting articles of news and analysisQuote of the DayNews about themes from 2 posts past on the FM websiteThought for the day (-1)Plus an Afterword(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis(a)  “State ...
  2 weeks ago

• Richard Scott discusses Warrantless Wiretapping on the Jeff Farias Show

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  Dandelion SaladPosted with permission from Jeff FariasThe Jeff Farias ShowNov. 10, 2009Richard Scott interview: Entire show – 172:55m: Broadcasting live here and simulcast on • Roots Up Radio and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, SwedenRichard “Ishmael” Scott, a writer at Sibel Edmonds ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tort Cases Pending Before the Tennessee Supreme Court

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 127
  F. Chris Cawood v. Linda Booth, et al. ,  E2007-02537-SC-R11-CV,  (Tenn. Ct. App. Nov. 25, 2008) has a set of facts you dont run into every day or, at least, I hope you dont run into everyday.   Here is the description of the case from the opinion of the Tennessee Court of Appeals. The plaintiff, F. Chris ...
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• Obama administration tries to vacate adverse rulings

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 152
  Kim Zetter of Threat Level reports on how the government’s motion to vacate prior rulings in Horn v. Huddle may seriously impact other pending cases such as al-Haramain v. Obama. In Horn v. Huddle , the government settled a 15-year old lawsuit filed by a former DEA agent who claimed he was subjected to ...
  2 weeks ago

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