Tag: nsa

I want what the NSA and GCHQ are using instead of Google Reader

While a bundle of start-ups and incubators are ‘on crunch‘ to finish the betas of their replacements for Google Reader, there’s probably one bit of software that could do the job even better than Google Reader. GCHQ and NSA must have some really good RSS plug-ins for reading websites. If we’re going to ignore the implications of the data trawling, could we at least benefit from the code that our taxes paid for?

Defining terrorism

Michael Arrington on the NSA PRISM story: For my part, I don’t give a damn that Senator Feinstein and others in our government say that this is “called protecting America.” It doesn’t, it’s Orwellian and it kills liberty and freedom on a scale never seen before. It’s not a way to stop terrorism. It IS terrorism. My emphasis, but Arrington nails it.