Can criminals really be convicted of crimes that they ‘might’ commit, but haven’t actually perpetrated? This sounds like a scenario snatched straight from science-fiction; certainly when Philip K. Dick wrote "The Minority Report" back in 1956 the concept seemed fanciful, but advances in technology and data analysis are turning this fictional idea into fact.
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The NSA isn’t just spying on suspected terrorists, it’s spying on millions of American citizens without any indication whatsoever that they are connected to terrorism. This spying is so extensive that it might include the whole population. It has also broken essentially all encryption systems so not even encrypted communications are safe from it’s prying eyes. It has been given permission to engage in this surveillance by judges who have been lied to by the agency.
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An analysis done by Baneki Privacy Labs, a group of internet security researchers Cryptocloud has uncovered a JavaScript exploit that targets Firefox Long-Term Support version 17 which was included in the Tor Project browser bundle until June. But the Tor Project Firefox configuration doesn’t include automatic updates, so Tor users would not be protected unless they manually upgrade their Firefox browser.

The address that the exploit pointed to was defense contractor SAIC, which provides information technology to the US Department of Defense. Further analysis found that the address was part of a block of addresses allocated by SAIC to the National Security Agency.
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Even as it continues to vigorously pursue the return of Edward Snowden to the United States to face trial and a long prison sentence, the Obama Administration is finding itself in a titanic battle to preserve funding for the National Security Agency. On July 24, the House of Representatives narrowly defeated an attempt by a coalition of Conservative Republicans and Liberal Democrats to defund the NSA’s Prism program, which is capable of acquiring essentially all the information available on the internet, including private communications, and concern about the NSA’s whole domestic spying effort is rising in both the House and the Senate.
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