top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-06-09

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

13 years ago

1254 upvotes – 293 comments

Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

13 years ago

748 upvotes – 179 comments

Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008815.html

13 years ago

551 upvotes – 82 comments

Tor and HTTPS

https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https

13 years ago

430 upvotes – 127 comments

How three pacifists were convicted as terrorists

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/15-7

13 years ago

403 upvotes – 163 comments

Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22835047

13 years ago

350 upvotes – 133 comments

People with nothing to hide

http://twitter.com/_nothingtohide

13 years ago

322 upvotes – 253 comments

Joseph Nacchio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

13 years ago

297 upvotes – 47 comments

How well do you know HTML?

http://jakearchibald.github.io/request-quest/

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 88 comments

Room 641A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 44 comments

Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/09/paul-wants-to-lead-supreme-court-challenge-to-fed-tracking-americans-calls/

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 71 comments

Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse'

http://www.france24.com/en/20130608-assange-us-rule-law-suffering-calamitous-collapse

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 61 comments

Vagrant: Create and configure portable development environments

http://www.vagrantup.com/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 79 comments

Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data (2011)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 25 comments

Don’t Take Your Vitamins

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dont-take-your-vitamins.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 172 comments

Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime

http://rt.com/news/singapore-website-protest-bloggers-419/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 82 comments

What are the implications of NSA surveillance on the average Internet user?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/37076/what-are-the-implications-of-nsa-surveillance-on-the-average-internet-user

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 28 comments

ECHELON was used for industrial espionage (European Commission report)

http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm#10

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 66 comments

United States incarceration rate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 95 comments

Google set to acquire Waze for $1.3B

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000850934&fid=1725

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 59 comments
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