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Month: June 2013

PRISM: Why the “directly and unilaterally” mistake matters.

June 21, 2013

My post about how a central claim of the PRISM story turns out not to be true has drawn a

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Parsing PRISM: Gen. Keith Alexander did not claim “dozens of attacks” were prevented.

June 14, 2013

Over and over we’ve read that Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, claimed that its massive surveillance program

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PRISM: The Problem with Collect-Then-Select.

June 12, 2013

[Note: This post now uses the phrase “collect-then-select”, instead of “collect-then-analyze”, which wasn’t quite as accurate. Other than that, and

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Epic botch of the PRISM story.

June 11, 2013

[Update 2013-06-13: See Rick Perlstein’s piece about this on The Nation’s blog. Glenn Greenwald later responded here.] Mark Jaquith’s post

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Privacy Promises and Client-Side Betrayal.

June 9, 2013

At the end of the post is a list of updates about new client-side betrayals I’ve noticed since this was

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