Ten Bears on Jan 25, 2012, 8:31 am If you’re afraid you might lose it: George Washington at Naked Capitalism: The government’s takedown of the 800 pound gorilla online storage site Megaupload may have killed the cloud storage model. Many innocent users have had their data taken away from them. Washington quotes PC World: The MegaUpload seizure shows how personal files hosted on remote servers operated by a [...] Josh Mull on Dec 8, 2010, 5:26 pm Are supporters of Wikileaks feeding into the crackdown by the US Government? [...] Ross Levin on Oct 17, 2010, 11:10 am I went to a protest in Philadelphia this past Saturday, and it was more disheartening than anything else. It was against the wars and various other injustices, with a special focus on he recent FBI raids of peace activists and Pennsylvania Homeland Security spying on innocent civilians and activists. By the end of it, I [...] Bob Morris on Aug 31, 2008, 5:05 pm The FBI used informants inside the groups, yet the charges are bogus. Thus the raids were clearly coming from the federal government and were meant as political intimidation. So here we have a massive assault led by Federal Government law enforcement agencies on left-wing dissidents and protesters who have committed no acts of violence [...] Bob Morris on Feb 27, 2008, 7:10 am “How I can be sure you’re not a member of al Qaida? Now excuse my wand while I slide it up inside ya.” Hilarious. NOT worksafe. Bob Morris on Feb 26, 2008, 5:31 pm Adam Curry blogs and podcasts about the new Orwellian “fear mongering campaign” in Britain, with the government running ads encouraging people to report those who, are you ready for this, take too many photos of buildings, behave suspiciously, or have too many cell phones. You don’t have to know if they are doing [...] Bob Morris on Jan 16, 2008, 10:18 am Danger Room on the government wanting to snoop on all Internet traffic. Of more interest to observers of intelligence activities is the issue of quality vs. quantity and the slow creep towards doom that these efforts foretell. The fact that we are essentially attempting to gill-net bad guys is a fairly strong indicator that the [...] Bob Morris on Jan 3, 2008, 12:11 am U.S. at the bottom of global privacy rankings. Bob Morris on May 18, 2007, 12:23 am The New York Times has the files of the NYPD surveillance of groups planning protests at the 2004 Republican convention. It appears they were “monitoring” virtually every group. WitnessVideo has a searchable version. The Bloomberg administration allowed this probably illegal spying on antiwar groups to happen, and also made every attempt to block protests [...] Bob Morris on Apr 5, 2007, 8:11 am Washington Post The revelations, combined with protester accounts, provide the first public evidence that Washington-based FBI personnel used their intelligence-gathering powers in the District to collect purely political intelligence. The Partnership for Civil Justice has more. They filed the lawsuit which forced the release of the police logs. “It really is a secret police: This [...] | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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