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US House Votes To Cut NSA Surveillance Funding

US House Votes To Cut NSA Surveillance Funding

US House Votes To Cut NSA Surveillance Funding
courtesy www.theepochtimes.com

Wired is reporting that the United States House of Representatives voted late Thursday night to cut the NSA’s surveillance funding. This could be a huge blow to the agency’s continued controversial spying efforts and a very welcome one to many Americans and foreigners alike.

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Blake’s Stage Of Rage: Lavabit, Secret Courts, And Trampled Freedom

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As I write this have finished reading a write up at The Guardian by Ladar Levison the founder of Lavabit, an email service that gained notoriety for its use by Edward Snowden in the wake of Snowden’s NSA leaks. Lavabit’s mission was simple. Provide a source for email that was secure and encrypted. That is to say, the email service’s main goal was to keep those emails private. In this write up (which I implore you to read) Ladar talks about some of the details of his legal case that eventually lead to the closing of his business/service.

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