top 50% 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

How not to be alone

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/how-not-to-be-alone.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 74 comments

Logic Programming is Underrated

http://swannodette.github.io/2013/03/09/logic-programming-is-underrated/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Rand Paul Bill Would Curb NSA on Phone Records

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/rand-paul-bill-would-curb-nsa-on-phone-records/

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 35 comments

Torservers.net: Professional Global Tor infrastructure

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008718.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 24 comments

Why a top terrorism analyst thinks US government surveillance has gone too far

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/06/brian_jenkins_fears_nsa_overreach_a_top_terrorism_expert_thinks_government.html

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 18 comments

Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 17 comments

Eric Schmidt: CNET gets it right on the NSA/Google issue

https://plus.google.com/+EricSchmidt/posts/XfgQ1PXzM5g

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 78 comments

Data intelligence complex is the real story

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a1dd626c-cf80-11e2-be7b-00144feab7de.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 48 comments

UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology

http://falkvinge.net/2013/06/08/4-ux-problems-holding-back-crypto-and-anti-wiretapping-technology/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

How JavaScript compilers work

http://creativejs.com/2013/06/the-race-for-speed-part-2-how-javascript-compilers-work/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

“The government does not have access to Google servers”

https://plus.google.com/+google/posts/TMh6gUVrwMq

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 59 comments

The Eternal Value of Privacy (2006)

https://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 5 comments

Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)

http://static.usenix.org/events/sec04/tech/full_papers/dingledine/dingledine_html/index.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 9 comments

RetroShare: For the Paranoid in You

http://www.linuxadvocates.com/2013/06/retroshare-for-paranoid-in-you.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Solving the mystery of PRISM

http://theweek.com/article/index/245360/solving-the-mystery-of-prism

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 5 comments

Setting the Record Straight

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/52491403007/setting-the-record-straight

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 81 comments

Ask a hacker: Top four anti-surveillance apps

http://www.zdnet.com/ask-a-hacker-top-four-anti-surveillance-apps-7000016566/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

GitHub's CSS Performance (2012)

https://speakerdeck.com/jonrohan/githubs-css-performance

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 5 comments

Homeland Security: Requirements for Security Decision Support Systems (2004)

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA465876

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

Rover Finds New Evidence That Ancient Mars Was Habitable

http://www.space.com/21483-mars-life-nasa-opportunity-rover.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Instagram: Making the Switch to Cassandra from Redis

http://planetcassandra.org/blog/post/instagram-making-the-switch-to-cassandra-from-redis-75-instasavings

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

PRISM: "Collection directly from the servers"

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343421926057861121

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

How To Keep Your Best Programmers

http://www.daedtech.com/how-to-keep-your-best-programmers

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

Why the NSA Prism Program Could Kill U.S. Tech Companies

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/why-the-nsa-prism-program-could-kill-us-tech-companies-15564220

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Wood Egg (my new company)

http://sivers.org/eg

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Greenwald has "highly detailed technical NSA materials on how they eavesdrop"

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343470800784982016

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Ex-Zynga Employees Tell All on Reddit

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100791796

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments

Guardian publishes third secret NSA document, on cyberwar

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/guardian-publishes-third-secret-nsa-document-on-cyberwar

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

NSA Chief describes what PRISM is

http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence-chief-heres-what-prism-is-2013-6

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments
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