Warning: slow down, technophiles, and look around you

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Sh*t the FBI says

Brilliant.

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For spot-on information about how to protect yourself from FBI manipulation, watch this (less entertaining, extremely informative) video:

Mueller: FBI not motivated by concerns over what is “politically correct”

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FBI Director Robert Mueller told Senator Dick Durbin that he is cleaning up the Islamophobic training Wired's Spencer Ackerman exposed last year.

DHS makes covert CCTV available to local police

The Department of Homeland Security hosts a website called "Responder Knowledge Base" where it advertises a wide variety of military, law enforcement and first responder tools. Local and state law enforcement are authorized to buy any of these technologies with DHS funds. You can see a whole host of these tools here.

The following pieces of equipment enable covert video surveillance; James Bond-like, they are made to look like everyday objects.

Have you seen any of these in real life? 

Cageprisoners on GITMO and indefinite detention

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Court: NSA can keep secret its relationship with Google

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Their big government contracts, our privacy nightmare

The first in a series on the Wikileaks Spyfiles.

University of California San Diego students and faculty might be surprised to learn that their school has an "advanced technology research" relationship with a corporation engaged in extensive Internet snooping. 

Who needs laws when you can just make an administrative rule?

_{President Obama with "cyber czar" Howard Schmidt}

Advocacy groups to the Senate: SECURE IT not viable, threatens privacy, civil liberties

“Pray for peace; train for war.”

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"The notion that the United States, with a tiny minority of the world's population, has the right to dominate other countries is profoundly authoritarian and profoundly anti-democratic." -- Andy Thayer, Chicago anti-war activist.