top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-10

NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/06/10/on-first-glance-nsa-leaker-appears-a-patriot-not-a-traitor/

13 years ago

1268 upvotes – 327 comments

Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/09/has-the-us-become-the-kind-of-nation-from-which-you-have-to-seek-asylum/

13 years ago

827 upvotes – 341 comments

Mac Pro

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

13 years ago

664 upvotes – 500 comments

Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry?

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130609225334-16549-did-obama-just-destroy-the-u-s-internet-industry?_mSplash=1

13 years ago

592 upvotes – 277 comments

Apple Literally Stole my Thunder

https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455

13 years ago

509 upvotes – 197 comments

Why we can't go back to business as usual post-PRISM

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008838.html

13 years ago

471 upvotes – 175 comments

Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere

http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere

13 years ago

457 upvotes – 73 comments

The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-irrationality-of-giving-up-this-much-liberty-to-fight-terror/276695/

13 years ago

430 upvotes – 121 comments

Obama, NSA, Verizon and DoJ sued for $3B over PRISM

http://www.scribd.com/doc/146930457/PRISM-Class

13 years ago

406 upvotes – 93 comments

I'm Ready To Help NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seek Asylum

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/09/icelandic-legislator-im-ready-to-help-nsa-whistleblower-seek-asylum/

13 years ago

405 upvotes – 44 comments

Mozilla should move Persona out of the US

http://blog.workhere.io/mozilla-needs-to-move-persona-out-of-the-us/

13 years ago

401 upvotes – 93 comments

obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com

http://obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com

13 years ago

332 upvotes – 39 comments

iOS 7

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 296 comments

Sweden warrantlessly wiretaps all Internet traffic crossing its borders

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

13 years ago

279 upvotes – 59 comments

Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

http://www.wuala.com/en/about/

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 191 comments

Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/government_secr.html

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 39 comments

Rewarding Edward Snowden's Courage

https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/reward-edward-snowden-for-courageously-leaking-nsa-docs

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 107 comments

Please stop serving .git to the outside world

http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/52587443706/devs-please-stop-serving-git-to-the-outside-world

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 85 comments

Encrypt your Google chats and make the NSA sad

https://github.com/nicolas-t/gAES

13 years ago

★ 408 JavaScript
246 upvotes – 154 comments

If the NSA Trusted Edward Snowden With Our Data, Why Should We Trust the NSA?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/09/edward_snowden_why_did_the_nsa_whistleblower_have_access_to_prism_and_other.html

13 years ago

232 upvotes – 77 comments

The PRISM Details Matter

https://medium.com/prism-truth/82a1791c94d3

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 51 comments

Edward Snowden 'missing' in Hong Kong

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22850901

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 92 comments

Rand Paul: Big Brother Really Is Watching Us

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324634304578537720921466776.html?mod=WSJ_LatestHeadlines

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 82 comments

PRISM kills the cloud

http://blogs.computerworld.com/cloud-storage/22305/why-prism-kills-cloud

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 60 comments

WWDC 2013 Keynote

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2013/

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 172 comments

Where “nothing to hide” fails as logic

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/06/10/nothing-to-hide.html

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 34 comments

PRISM? Come to Israel to study our surveillance state

http://2jk.org/english/?p=350

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 95 comments

Obama's NSA Defense: Congress Can Raise Objections It Can't Actually Raise

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/obama-nsa-response/66015/

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 32 comments

Python Flask NSA Backdoor

https://github.com/plausibility/flask-nsa?=hn

13 years ago

★ 186 Python MIT
166 upvotes – 19 comments

Edward Snowden, The N.S.A. Leaker, Comes Forward

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/06/edward-snowden-the-nsa-leaker-comes-forward.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 21 comments

iOS Apps Can Now Be Transferred From One Developer to Another

http://blog.zaheer.me/2013/06/apps-can-now-be-transferred-from-one.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 16 comments

Hong Kong Baffled by Snowden’s Hideout

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/06/10/hong-kong-baffled-by-snowdens-hideout/

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 97 comments

Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/10/apple-announces-mac-os-x-mavericks/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 112 comments

Mass Surveillance in America: A Timeline of Loosening Laws and Practices

http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/surveillance-timeline

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 7 comments

EFF: Google's Transparency Report does not include FISA court orders

https://twitter.com/EFF/status/343095933929664513

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 11 comments

My sister absolutely refuses to learn math

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/416226/my-sister-absolutely-refuses-to-learn-math

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 91 comments

Costco does not hire business school graduates

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_06/the_secret_of_costcos_success045176.php

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 63 comments

Treaty gives Hong Kong option to reject Snowden extradition to the US

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1257639/treaty-gives-hong-kong-option-reject-snowden-extradition-us

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

The Visual Patterns of Audio Frequencies Seen through Vibrating Sand

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/06/the-visual-patterns-of-audio-frequencies-seen-through-vibrating-sand/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

Why is elliptic curve cryptography not widely used, compared to RSA?

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/1190/why-is-elliptic-curve-cryptography-not-widely-used-compared-to-rsa

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Bradley Manning Trial: Is Our Future an Orwellian Nightmare Or Info Anarchy?

http://www.policymic.com/articles/47249/bradley-manning-trial-is-our-future-an-orwellian-nightmare-or-information-anarchy

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 12 comments

The Extensible Web Manifesto

http://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 14 comments

A Story of Surveillance (2007)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

22 American nuclear bombs are stored in The Netherlands

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/22_american_nuclear_bombs_are.php

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 55 comments

Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/10/inside_the_nsa_s_ultra_secret_china_hacking_group

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Operation Troll The NSA

http://trollthensa.com/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

How patio11 redesigned my landing page in front of a live studio audience

http://www.planningforaliens.com/blog/2013/06/02/evolution-of-landing-page/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Flood Washington with 1984

https://www.facebook.com/FloodWashingtonWith1984

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Why does software have to be maintained?

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/10/21/software-maintenance/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

India gets ready to roll out cyber snooping agency

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-gets-ready-to-roll-out-cyber-snooping-agency/article4798049.ece

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

Booz Allen Statement on Reports of Leaked Information

http://www.boozallen.com/media-center/press-releases/48399320/statement-reports-leaked-information-060913

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Tools For Protecting Your Privacy Online

http://www.compylr.com/post/tools-for-protecting-your-privacy-online

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Create Something Every Day

https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/723d7e73b9bd

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments
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