top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-06-08

Cowards

http://uncrunched.com/2013/06/07/cowards/

13 years ago

793 upvotes – 225 comments

NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html

13 years ago

442 upvotes – 85 comments

Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Must Stay Secret

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/government-says-secret-court-opinion-law-underlying-prism-program-needs-stay

13 years ago

328 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011)

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 57 comments

Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveillance program

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling-concede-to-government-surveillance-efforts.html

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 161 comments

Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/08/us-usa-security-leaks-idUSBRE95700C20130608

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 104 comments

Electronic Frontier Foundation Survives on $5M/year

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7576

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 51 comments

Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granai_airstrike#Video_of_the_airstrike

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 173 comments

Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies

http://theweek.com/article/index/245311/sources-nsa-sucks-in-data-from-50-companies

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 51 comments

Rope (data structure)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28data_structure%29

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 30 comments

Deny PRISM - Generate a PRISM involvement denial statement for your company

http://colingourlay.github.io/deny-prism/

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 14 comments

The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism

http://www.zdnet.com/the-real-story-in-the-nsa-scandal-is-the-collapse-of-journalism-7000016570/

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 45 comments

GNUnet

https://gnunet.org/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app

https://github.com/goshakkk/nsa_panel

13 years ago

★ 797 Ruby MIT
188 upvotes – 12 comments

US surveillance revelations deepen European fears

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/europe-surveillance-prism-idUSL5N0EJ31S20130607

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 76 comments

Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/08/051235/oracle-discontinues-free-java-time-zone-updates

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 73 comments

Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/07/takeout/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 45 comments

Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals

https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/huwQsphBron

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 103 comments

Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/08/what_about_a_us_tech_boycott/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 78 comments

Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth About Participation

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/07/doublespeak-denials-and-broken-hearts/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 17 comments
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