REPORT: THE NSA CAN SECRETLY ACTIVATE AN iPHONE’S MICROPHONE, CAMERA... AND THAT’S NOT ALL

The Spy Agency Can Also Interrupt Text Messages,
Access Contact Lists And Use Cell Towers To
Identify Your Location

Oliver Darcy, TheBlaze — The National Security Agency can remotely activate an iPhone’s camera and microphone without the user knowing, according to a leaked document obtained by German news magazine Der Spiegel.

The spy agency can also interrupt text messages, access contact lists and use cell towers to identify the location of the phone, according to The Daily Dot:

According to leaked documents, the NSA claims a 100 percent success rate when it comes to implanting iOS devices with spyware. The documents suggest that the NSA needs physical access to a device to install the spyware—something the agency has achieved by rerouting shipments of devices purchased online—but a remote version of the exploit is also in the works.

Here is the leaked doc (Image source: Der Spiegel / The Daily Dot):

The security researcher that initially obtained the documents noted that this presents one of two possibilities.

“Either [the NSA] have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce, and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves,” Jacob Appelbaum said at a conference.

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“Do you think Apple helped them with that?” he asked. “I hope Apple will clarify that.”

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PRIVACY NIGHTMARE WARNING

Christian Information Radio

With Host Jim Schneider

Healthcare.gov Terms of Service:
You Have No Expectation of Privacy
With Any Data That You Submit!!!

On Today’s Show (December 16, 2013): Guest Dr. Katherine Albrecht received her Doctorate in Education with a concentration in Technology, Innovation and Education. She is a cyber security expert as she focuses on consumer education and privacy issues. She is knowledgeable on a number of issues including RFID, Real ID, human microchip implants, government surveillance and related topics. She is the author or co-author of several books including: 'Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plant to Track Your Every Move with RFID.'

According to Dr. Albrecht, from a sheer security standpoint, Healthcare.gov is one of the most insecure websites she's ever seen. She feels that from the ground up, those building this website failed to include the security basics that commercial websites would include. Like a new building that has holes in the foundation and must be demolished so that you can start over, she feels Healthcare.gov can't be fixed. In fact, in the terms of service portion of the site it says that you have no expectation of privacy with any data that you submit. She also noted that the “fixes” that we've heard about have been for functionality and not security.

What about enrolling by paper or phone? Dr. Albrecht recommended contacting your insurance company via their website or call them and ask them what's available that makes you compliant with Obamacare. For Christians she recommends looking into the Christian medical sharing ministries as this will also make you compliant under the Obamacare regulations.

Dr. Albrecht and Jim also discuss the Snowden/NSA information scandal, the startling research taking place at Google.com and details surrounding the new startmail.com private e-mail service that provides security not available with U.S. based webmail offerings.

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Kris Zane, The Western Center For Journalism — If you think Obama using the IRS to attack the Tea Party was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet.

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Truth Lives Here

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Thousands gathered in Washington DC to protest the spying

on American citizens by the NSA and the U.S. government.

On Saturday, thousands gathered in Washington DC to protest the spying on American citizens by the NSA and the U.S. government. The rally, organized by the Stop Watching Us group, was joined by groups as diverse as FreedomWorks, Occupy Wall Street, and the ACLU. Even NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was there via prepared remarks which were read at the event. Americans are starting to wake up to the chilling surveillance state, and TheBlaze’s National Security Expert joined Glenn on TV to discuss the issue.

The conversation kicked off with a Wall Street Journal report where data collected by the NSA was used in a criminal prosecution, even though the data was gathered without a warrant.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

The notification was filed to the lawyer of Jamshid Muhtorov, who is charged in Colorado with providing material support to a designated terrorist organization, specifically the Islamic Jihad Union. Authorities say he sought to travel to Syria to join a group of fighters there.

The notification to Mr. Muhtorov’s lawyer marks the first time the government has acknowledged a criminal case against a terror defendant was derived at least in part from communications gathered by the NSA. Based on court documents, it appears in Mr. Muhtorov’s case the government monitored his emails and Internet usage, though they also tracked his telephone.

According to the WSJ, this will be the first time that someone’s communication was intercepted with their secret surveillance program, and as a result od that data they are being charged with a criminal case.

“This was against a suspected would-be terrorist, somebody who was going to travel overseas allegedly to join the fighting in Syria,” Buck said. “But in the court documents given over to his lawyer, it’s become clear that some of the knowledge that the government had derived from the NSA.”

“This was not with some special warrant,” he added. “The NSA had this stuff, they decided to give it to criminal authorities.”

Buck warned that while the information was only being used against a terrorist at this point, it’s not inconceivable that they could use the vast amount of data to come after other citizens as well. He warned that some people in government have certainly appeared “vindictive” lately, and that there is plenty of data out there on people.

“Any federal agency at any point in time can go through your entire life, essentially, going back to your childhood looking for something,” Buck warned.

Is there anyone who can stand against this?

“I think right now we’re getting to the point of no return; we haven’t crossed it yet,” Buck told Glenn. » Full Article With Comments

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What’s an EXABYTE?????

1 Exabyte =1.05Million TERABYTES

10 Terabytes =The Library of Congress

which equals 35 MILLION BOOKS.

NSA Data Mining produced 2,837 EXABYTES in 2012 alone.

My brain can’t even began to wrap itself around the immensity of this...

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OBAMACARE FORCES ITS WAY INTO YOUR PRIVATE SEX LIFE

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Doctors Will Be Financially Punished
If They Fail To Ask Such Questions

Kristin Tate, Full Disclosure — “Pro-choicers” often hold signs at rallies that say things like, “Stay Out Of My Uterus.” Now conservatives might be sporting similar signs to protest Obamacare.

Under Obamacare, all doctors – from dermatologists, to podiatrists, to neurologists – will be asking very personal questions about your sex life. Questions like, “Are you sexually active?”, “With whom?” and “How many sexual partners do you have?”

Doctors will be financially punished if they fail to ask such questions.

Here is how it will work: under Obamacare, all doctors who do not use electronic methods by 2015 will face heavy fines from Medicare and Medicaid.

In those records, the government has mandated that doctors include details pertaining to patients’ sex life.

Some doctors say the regulations could harm the patient-doctor relationship. Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist and professor at Albert Einstein Medical College, said the requirements make your medical record “into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential.”

The New York Civil Liberties Union is concerned about privacy (or lack thereof). In a 2012 report, the group pointed out that almost all information on a patient’s medical record can be found with one click of a mouse.

As Betsy McCaughey of the New York Post argued that should be assertive and defend their personal privacy. She wrote, “WikiLeaker Bradley Manning showed how incompetent the government is at keeping its own secrets; incidents where various agencies accidentally disclose personal data like Social Security numbers are legion. And that’s not to mention the ways in which commercial databases are prone to hacking and/or exploitation.”

In the 1980s and 1990s, women’s rights activists vehemently protested the federal government’s ability to access a woman’s health records.

Ironically, women’s rights groups have not made a peep about the intrusive Obamacare mandates.

Obamacare is arguably an intrusive vehicle for the federal government to push its way into our private business and bodies. » Full Article

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The Government Won’t Be The Only Organization
With Access To The Information

Joshua Cook, Full Disclosure — Earlier this year, revelations about the Department of Justice spying on the Associated Press were quickly followed by revelations that the NSA was collecting phone data on all Verizon, and then all American cell phone, users. Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing drew yet more attention to the issue, and domestic surveillance programs have remained a top issue in people’s minds ever since.

While Americans focus on institutions like the CIA and NSA, though, programs are being implemented which would lead to a much more institutional way of tracking citizens. Obamacare is one of these, but Common Core Standards – the federal educational program – is the most eyebrow-raising.

Bill Gates was one of the leaders of Common Core, putting his personal money into its development, implementation and promotion, so it’s unsurprising that much of this data mining will occur via Microsoft’s Cloud system.

Even the Department of Education, though, admits that privacy is a concern, and that that some of the data gathered may be “of a sensitive nature.” The information collected will be more than sensitive; much of it will also be completely unrelated to education. Data collected will not only include grades, test scores, name, date of birth and social security number, it will also include parents’ political affiliations, individual or familial mental or psychological problems, beliefs, religious practices and income.

In addition, all activities, as well as those deemed demeaning, self-incriminating or anti-social, will be stored in students’ school records. In other words, not only will permanently stored data reflect criminal activities, it will also reflect bullying or anything perceived as abnormal. The mere fact that the White House notes the program can be used to “automatically demonstrate proof of competency in a work setting” means such data is intended to affect students’ futures.

Perhaps even more alarming is the fact that data collection will also include critical appraisals of individuals with whom students have close family relationships. The Common Core program has been heavily scrutinized recently for the fact that its curriculum teaches young children to use emotionally charged language to manipulate others and teaches students how to become community organizers and experts of the U.N.’s agenda 21.

Combined with this form of data collection, it’s easy to envision truly disturbing untruths and distortions making their way into the permanent record.

Like Common Core, states were bribed with grant money from the federal government to implement data mining, and 47 states have now implemented some form of data mining from the educational system. Only 9 have implemented the full Common Core data mining program. Though there are restrictions which make storing data difficult on the federal level, states can easily store the data and allow the federal government to access it at its own discretion.

The government won’t be the only organization with access to the information. School administrators have full control over student files, and they can choose who to share information with. Theoretically, the information could be sold, perhaps withholding identifying information. In addition, schools can share records with any “school official” without parental consent. The term “school official,” however, includes private companies which have contracts with the school.

NSA data mining is troubling because it could lead to intensely negative outcomes, because it opens up new avenues for control, and because it is fundamentally wrong. Common Core data mining, tracking students with GPS devices however, is far, far scarier.

It gives the government the ability to completely control the futures of every student of public education, and that will soon extend to private and home schools. It provides a way to intimidate students – who already have a difficult time socially – into conforming to norms which are not only social, but also political and cultural.

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Can a government agency block criticism by claiming copyright infringement? Sounds a bit ridiculous but it is happening. The NSA is effectively stopping one small business owner from criticism, claiming that by using its name he has infringed on their copyright.

Can they do that?

This is a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else.

This is a story I had a hard time believing until I looked into it for myself. Here is the backstory.

Dan McCall is the owner of a company that makes snarky t-shirts. The company is called Liberty Maniacs. Liberty Maniacs carry a number of t-shirts dealing with lack of privacy and the growing police state. They sell on a site called www.Zazzle.com

None of it has been a problem—until Liberty Maniacs released a shirt called “The NSA.”

The image looks like the NSA logo but has a motto that is clearly a pun—“Peeping while you are sleeping”—followed by the phrase “The NSA, the only part of government that actually listens.”

Shortly after the shirt went online, www.Zazzle.com pulled the shirt from its website, sending this message: “Thank you for publishing products on Zazzle.

Unfortunately, it appears that your product, The NSA, contains content that is in conflict with one or more of our acceptable content guidelines. We will be removing this product from the Zazzle Marketplace shortly.

“Policy Notes: Design contains an image or text that may infringe on intellectual property rights. We have been contacted by the intellectual property right holder and we will be removing your product from Zazzle’s Marketplace due to infringement claims.”

Dan McCall, the owner of Liberty Maniacs spoke with me via Skype and says there were multiple items dealing with the NSA that were pulled down from Zazzle.

“In terms of shirts, two, and then maybe four or five bumper stickers. Basically anything remotely relating to the NSA was taken down. So I’m not sure if that was subsequently a blanket policy that Zazzle themselves put up because they don’t want to deal with the hassle and they didn’t want to spend time interpreting each thing knowing they would run into problems or if they were plugged into NSA legal and they were watching things as they go,” says McCall.

So to be clear, McCall was using the NSA logo, the NSA claimed copyright infringement and Zazzle.com pulled the content down.

In fairness, what McCall was doing does use the official logo of a government agency. Can anyone just use that logo? Actually, yes. According to both the Electronic Freedom Foundation and the American Bar Association, “parody is recognized as a type of fair use, like other commentary and criticism, and courts recognize that a parody must often take recognizable elements from the work it comments upon.

Courts do distinguish parody from satire. Parody copies from the object it mocks…”

You can’t claim copyright infringement if your logo or image is used as part of a parody. So the next question, is this logo a parody?

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, a parody “is the use of some elements of a prior author’s composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author’s works. Like other forms of comment or criticism, parody can provide social benefit, by shedding light on an earlier work, and, in the process, creating a new one.”

“According to the [U.S. Supreme] Court, a parody is the ‘use of some elements of a prior author’s composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author’s works.’ Id. at 580. Like other forms of comment or criticism, parody can provide social benefit, ‘by shedding light on an earlier work, and, in the process, creating a new one.’ Id.” –Juli Wilson Marshall, Nicholas J. Siciliano, Latham & Watkins LLP

McCall says, “I tried to visually take the most obvious direction at pointing at them that I could. It was their logo. I just tried to adulterate it a little bit and put a few jabs in there and that will be it. So it wasn’t a huge design coup and it did the job basically.”

Now, what might be the most interesting twist in this entire story is that while the NSA is claiming copyright infringement against McCall for his parody, the NSA itself is facing accusations of true copyright infringement.

Take a look at this image. This is the official NSA logo for the Prism program. Prism is, of course, the program that deals with NSA spying via email and phone records.

According to reports from England, the Prism image used here is being used without permission.

Adam Hart Davis is a well-known BBC presenter and the image belongs to him. Here is the Davis pic. As you can see, the NSA image is just Davis’ picture flipped upside down. Adam’s son, Damon, who wrote about this in the Register Newspaper, claims that the image is free for use, but a donation is requested and, at minimum, use of the image requires a link to his photo gallery and acknowledgement, none of which he has received from the NSA.

What you need to know is that because the work put out by Liberty Maniacs is clearly a parody, it is not copyright infringement. That is the easiest part of this story.

But the bigger issue here is the issue of free speech. It is a first amendment issue. McCall sees it that way as well.

“First amendment issues affect everybody and it specifically affects everybody who is expressing themselves—any artist, whether on the right or on the left or in the middle or whatever side. If you are not allowed to express yourself artistically or in many other ways, we have taken a turn for the worse,” says McCall.

Bottom line, there is no gray area here. But the NSA is a very powerful government agency. They don’t need a gray area or even to be right to get companies like Zazzle.com to cooperate.

This is why Internet piracy bills like SOPA and PIPA and CISPA are so dangerous. If those bills become law, all the feds have to do is claim copyright infringement to shut down an entire site. They don’t have to be right.

Dan McCall’s story is just a taste of what happens when government agencies decide they will enforce laws but not be subject to them.

And that is Reality Check. » Full Article

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Dr. Kevin "Coach" Collins, The Western Center For Journalism — The fine print of Obamacare says “The 4th Amendment be damned, we’re coming into your house when we feel like it.” There is no other way to interpret what the allowable government raids of otherwise law abiding American homes will be.

Under the provisions of the healthcare law given to Barack Obama by the Democrats and Chief Justice John Roberts, government thugs will have the right to kick in doors and search homes in a number of circumstances.

These are by no means situations that would cause the average low information voter to shrug and acknowledge that “Maybe that’s not a bad idea,” either.

If some jerk in a government office hundreds, even thousands of miles away, decides your household is “at high risk,” he or she can green light Obama’s Gestapo troopers to bust in at their convenience.

You will be deemed “at high risk” if the family is headed by a single mother under 21 years of age. N.B. If you believe this will only happen in the “inner cities” I have a bridge to sell you.

If there is a tobacco user in the home – boom the door flies open – unless of course that door is located in a certain, protected zip code.

This one is a real belly laugh: If the children in the household are low achievers or developmentally delayed or have disabilities the worst kind of government intrusion can be just a phone from Washington to your local, nanny-state commissar.

The most egregious of the “high risk” circumstances for jack booted thugs kicking in your door is if family members are serving or have served in the military and experienced “multiple deployments” which of course means whatever Obama wants it to mean.

If these are the defined circumstances now, how long will it be before “thinking and speaking thoughts against the Administration” or “failure to support the social good” like gay marriage and abortion will be defined as circumstances leading to charges of your household being “at high risk?” » Full Article

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Obamacare Provision Targets
Millions Of Americans

“Clearly, any family may be visited by federally paid agents...
for almost any reason.”

Joshua Cook, Full Disclosure — According to an Obamacare provision millions of Americans will be targeted.

The Health and Human Services’ website states that your family will be targeted if you fall under the “high-risk” categories below:

• Families where mom is not yet 21.

• Families where someone is a tobacco user.

• Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.

• Families with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States.

There is no reference to Medicaid being the determinant for a family to be “eligible.”

In 2011, the HHS announced $224 million will be given to support evidence-based home visiting programs to “help parents and children.” Individuals from the state will implement these leveraging strategies to “enhance program sustainability.”

Constitutional attorney and author Kent Masterson Brown states:

“This is not a “voluntary” program. The eligible entity receiving the grant for performing the home visits is to identify the individuals to be visited and intervene so as to meet the improvement benchmarks. A homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to “intervention” in “school readiness” and “social-emotional developmental indicators.” A farm family may be subject to “intervention” in order to “prevent child injuries.” The sky is the limit.

Although the Obama administration would claim the provision applies only to Medicaid families, the new statute, by its own definition, has no such limitation. Intervention may be with any family for any reason. It may also result in the child or children being required to go to certain schools or taking certain medications and vaccines and even having more limited – or no – interaction with parents. The federal government will now set the standards for raising children and will enforce them by home visits.”

Part of the program will require massive data collecting of private information including all sources of income and the amount gathered from each source.

A manual called Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention includes firearms as potential safety hazard and will require inspectors to verify safety compliance and record each inspection into a database.

Last session South Carolina Rep. Bill Chumley introduced a bill, H.3101 that would nullify certain provisions of Obamacare. The bill would give the state attorney general the authority to authorize law enforcement to arrest federal agents for trespassing. It would make forced home inspections under Obamacare illegal in South Carolina. It passed in the House but died in the senate.

Kent Brown and Rep. Rick Quinn discuss “forced” home inspections under Obamacare in the video below.

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OBAMA IS A ‘SNAKE’ AND ‘WE HAVE TO TURN ON HIM’ SAYS…

Major Liberal Calls Obama A Snake

Dave Urbanski , TheBlaze — Film director Oliver Stone—who has made no secret of his liberal political views—called President Barack Obama a “snake” for his role in National Security Agency spying programs that have become, he said, more about silencing protestors than finding terrorists.

“Obama is a snake,” Stone told an audience in Tokyo on Monday. “He’s a snake. And we have to turn on him.”

“The Boston Marathon, they were so busy tracking down potential protestors…that they missed the bombers,” Stone told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. “It’s never about terrorists, it always becomes about the way J. Edgar Hoover did it; he brought all the weight of government to bear against protestors. He didn’t like protestors. He thought they were left-wing communists. He never could find the proof, but by the time the Vietnam War came around, as you know, 500,000 people were on the list, and they were being eavesdropped on. And where are we now? Same place.”

Stone said that admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden “is a hero to me. He sacrificed his well-being for the good of us all” and that Russia’s Vladimir Putin did the right thing by granting Snowden asylum, according to PressTV.

“I’m proud of him for doing it,” Stone said of Putin and Russia. “We need more countries to stand up to the U.S.”

Stone also called Snowden a hero last month and said it’s “a disgrace that Obama is more concerned with hunting him down Snowden than reforming these George Bush-style eavesdropping techniques.”

Last summer in the lead up to the 2012 Republican National Convention, Stone said he’d vote for Ron Paul over Obama if Paul secured the GOP nomination. Stone suggested that Paul was the “only one” who’s “saying anything intelligent about the future of the world.”

Relations between Russia and the U.S. have been frosty since the Snowden asylum decision, with Obama abruptly canceling a meeting with Putin, which was taken as a snub. » Full Article

Oliver Stone: Obama is a Snake!

(H/T: PressTV)

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ENOUGH! GIVE US BACK OUR PRIVACY!

More Than 100 Global Organizations Sign
To Stand Against Government Surveillance

Bob Unruh, WND — The National Security Agency, FBI and other U.S. government strategies to spy on American citizens is getting attention from around the world.

And that’s not good.

More than 100 organizations, many from societies far less open and free than America, having signed onto the “International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance.”

Those signatories include 7iber from Jordan, the international Access organization, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Russia’s Agentura.ru, a privacy group from Turkey, Indonesia’s Association of Community Internet Center – APWKomite1, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Pakistan’s Bolo Bhi, Colombia’s Fundacion Karisma, the Gulf Center for Human Rights and ICAK, of Kenya.

The document is a stand against “unchecked communications surveillance, calling for the governments around the world to follow international human rights law and curtail pervasive spying.”

The issue has been in the news worldwide since Edward Snowden, a former worker for a U.S. government contractor, released secrets that revealed the NSA was spying on Americans’ emails and telephones and the FBI was joining in.

The International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication Surveillance are 13 guidelines “that spell out how existing human rights law applies to modern digital surveillance,” supporters explained.

“The principles include advice on how surveillance laws should respect the law, due process, and include public oversight and transparency. Current debates over government surveillance are often limited by outmoded definitions of content versus metadata, or stored data versus data in transit. The principles released today concentrate on the core issue: how human rights protect all information that reveals private information about an individual’s communications,” the organizations explained online.

“It’s time to restore human rights to their place at the very heart of the surveillance debate,” said EFF International Director Danny O’Brien. “Widespread government spying on communications interferes with citizens’ ability to enjoy a private life, and to freely express themselves – basic rights we all have. But the mass metadata collected in the U.S. surveillance program, for example, makes it extraordinarily easy for the government to track what groups we associate with and why we might contact them. These principles announced today represent a global consensus that modern surveillance has gone too far and must be restrained.”

Nearly four dozen nations are represented on the list.

“International human rights law binds every country across the globe to a basic respect for freedom of expression and personal privacy,” said EFF International Rights Director Katitza Rodriguez. “The pervasiveness of surveillance makes standing up for our digital rights more important than ever. And we need those rights to survive in a digital world, where any state can spy on us all, in more detail than ever before. We know that surveillance laws need to be transparent and proportionate, with judicial oversight, and that surveillance should only be used when absolutely necessary. Everything we’ve heard about the NSA programs indicate that they fall far outside these international human rights principles.”

The guidelines explain, “Privacy is a fundamental human right, and is central to the maintenance of democratic societies. It is essential to human dignity and it reinforces other rights, such as freedom of expression and information, and freedom of association, and is recognized under international human rights law. Activities that restrict the right to privacy, including communications surveillance, can only be justified when they are prescribed by law, they are necessary to achieve a legitimate aim, and are proportionate to the aim pursued.”

The principles include legality, legitimate aim, necessity, adequacy, proportionality, competent judicial authority, due process, user notification, transparency, public oversight, integrity of communications and systems, safeguards for international cooperation, and safeguards against illegitimate access. » Full Article

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About the Author

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially.

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