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1.NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (cypherspace.org)
442 points by EthanHeilman on June 8, 2013 | 85 comments
2.Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Must Stay Secret (eff.org)
328 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 | 18 comments
3.Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011) (chronicle.com)
278 points by ekm2 on June 8, 2013 | 57 comments
4.Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveillance program (nytimes.com)
262 points by rdl on June 8, 2013 | 161 comments
5.Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks (reuters.com)
247 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 | 104 comments
6.Electronic Frontier Foundation Survives on $5M/year (charitynavigator.org)
243 points by mapt on June 8, 2013 | 51 comments
7.Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children" (wikipedia.org)
233 points by gridmaths on June 8, 2013 | 173 comments
I'd like to do something but it's too difficult to avoid using cloud services.
220 points | parent
9.Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies (theweek.com)
223 points by cpleppert on June 8, 2013 | 51 comments
10.Rope (data structure) (wikipedia.org)
217 points by jmduke on June 8, 2013 | 30 comments
11.Deny PRISM - Generate a PRISM involvement denial statement for your company (colingourlay.github.io)
208 points by collypops on June 8, 2013 | 14 comments
12.The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism (zdnet.com)
201 points by daigoba66 on June 8, 2013 | 45 comments
I'm not changing anything because I already assumed all of my data was being monitored anyway.
190 points | parent
14.GNUnet (gnunet.org)
193 points by cdwhite on June 8, 2013 | 46 comments
15.Show HN: Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app (github.com/goshakkk)
188 points by goshakkk on June 8, 2013 | 12 comments
16.US surveillance revelations deepen European fears (reuters.com)
184 points by youngerdryas on June 8, 2013 | 76 comments
17.Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates (slashdot.org)
163 points by sharms on June 8, 2013 | 73 comments
18.Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM (rachelbythebay.com)
159 points by onosendai on June 8, 2013 | 45 comments
19.Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals (plus.google.com)
158 points by msabalau on June 8, 2013 | 103 comments
20.Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech (theregister.co.uk)
151 points by cdvonstinkpot on June 8, 2013 | 78 comments
21.Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth About Participation (techcrunch.com)
134 points by seandhi on June 8, 2013 | 17 comments
I'm going to try to use services from non-US companies hosted outside the US.
122 points | parent
23.How not to be alone (nytimes.com)
124 points by gjenkin on June 8, 2013 | 74 comments
24.Logic Programming is Underrated (swannodette.github.io)
119 points by llambda on June 8, 2013 | 27 comments

> What the hell does this even mean?

It means that if telling the truth is illegal, they should have the courage to break the law.

26.Rand Paul Bill Would Curb NSA on Phone Records (abcnews.go.com)
119 points by uvdiv on June 8, 2013 | 35 comments
27. Torservers.net: Professional Global Tor infrastructure (stanford.edu)
117 points by mo on June 8, 2013 | 24 comments
28.Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks (guardian.co.uk)
107 points by schrofer on June 8, 2013 | 17 comments
29.Why a top terrorism analyst thinks US government surveillance has gone too far (slate.com)
112 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 | 18 comments
30.Data intelligence complex is the real story (ft.com)
97 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 | 48 comments

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