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Intelligence services "creating vast databases" of intercepted emails

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/18/intelligence-services-email-database-internet-tribunal

<< Government told internet surveillance tribunal that gathering material "may be permissible", say human rights groups. >>

A father opens a plastic bag: "This is my son", he says, "killed by an Israeli shell"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/father-gathers-body-dead-son-two-plastic-bag-gaza-shelling

<< Palestinian death toll continues to mount as Israel's ground invasion into Gaza carries on. >>

I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-interview-rusbridger-macaskill

<< He doesn't drink, he's reading Dostoevsky and, no, he doesn't wear a disguise. A year after blowing the whistle on the NSA, America's most wanted talks frankly about his life as a hero-pariah – and why the world remains "more dangerous than Orwell imagined". >>

HTTP Must Die, Security Experts Tell Hackers

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/http-must-die,news-19188.html

<< HTTP must die, two staffers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation told attendees at the HOPE X hacker conference in here Friday (July 18). Yan Zhu and Parker Higgins argued that there are fewer and fewer reasons why anything should be transmitted across the Internet unencrypted in 2014. But two large reasons still exist: advertising networks and content-delivery networks. >>

MH17: recording shows Russian colonel and rebels "discussing disaster" - VIDEO

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/18/mh17-recording-russian-colonel-rebels-discuss-disaster-video

<< The Security Service of Ukraine has released a recording of what it says are conversations involving a rebel fighter named "Bes", Russian Colonel Vasyl Mykolaiovych Geranin and Cossack military leader Mykola Kozitsyn discussing the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine. The transcript with this video was obtained independently by the Guardian. >>

Cover-up: Ukraine rebels destroying all links to MH17 air atrocity

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/separatist-links-malaysia-airlines-mh17-removed

<< UN demands full inquiry but armed Russian separatists block access to crash site amid confusion over black boxes. >>

Japanese artist released following arrest over vagina selfie for 3D prints

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/japanese-artist-released-arrest-vagina-selfie-3d-prints-megumi-igarashi

<< Megumi Igarashi's arrest on obscenity charges has triggered concerns of clampdown on freedom of expression in Japan. >>

Malaysia Airlines plane crash: world demands answers from Russia

<< US criticises Kremlin's arming of rebels and Hillary Clinton says "Putin has gone too far" after 298 die in missile strike. >>

As a father who lost his children in Gaza, I call for an end to this bloodshed

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/18/father-children-gaza-bloodshed-palestinians-israelis

<< Palestinians and Israelis must work together to build a new generation that believes in humanity and freedom. >>

Low-hanging pants now a crime in Ocala, punishable by jail time, $500 fine

http://www.ocala.com/article/20140716/ARTICLES/140719772/1412

<< Don't get caught with your pants down below your waist on city of Ocala property. You could face up to a $500 fine and six months in jail. The Ocala City Council voted 4-0 Tuesday to pass an ordinance that prohibits anyone on city property from wearing their pants two inches below their natural waist in a way that exposes underwear or bare buttocks. >>

Edward Snowden urges professionals to encrypt client communications

<< Exclusive: Whistleblower says NSA revelations mean those with duty to protect confidentiality must urgently upgrade security.

The NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has urged lawyers, journalists, doctors, accountants, priests and others with a duty to protect confidentiality to upgrade security in the wake of the spy surveillance revelations. Snowden said professionals were failing in their obligations to their clients, sources, patients and parishioners in what he described as a new and challenging world. >>

Gaza: this shameful injustice will only end if the cost of it rises

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/16/gaza-shameful-injustice-israel-attacks-occupied-people

<< The idea that Israel is defending itself from unprovoked attacks is absurd. Occupied people have the right to resist. >>

P.S.: I am an atheist and I hate all dogmatic religions - catholicism, protestantism, judaism, islam, ALL OF THEM. But I also hate injustice, and slaughtering children is simply unjustifiable.

Revealed: the hunger strikes of America's most secret foreign prisoners

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/bagram-detainees-hunger-strikes-revealed

<< Protests by detainees held in secret by US in Afghanistan. Strikes reminiscent of those at Guantánamo Bay. Detainees say: "The Americans did not want to talk to us". >>

Just ignore this Bobsurplus guy. What a piece of subhuman scum.

Russia to Reopen Spying Post in Cuba

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/world/americas/russia-to-reopen-spying-post-in-cuba.html

<< Russia has decided to reopen an electronic eavesdropping post in Cuba that it closed more than a decade ago, reaching out for a one-time symbol of its global superpower status, Russian officials and newspaper reports said on Wednesday. >>

Microsoft tells users to stop using strong passwords everywhere

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/16/microsoft-stop-using-strong-passwords-everywhere

<< Weak passwords have their place, argues new research from Microsoft, and they help users conserve brainpower for where it is needed. >>

Vagina selfie for 3D printers lands Japanese artist in trouble

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/vagina-selfie-for-3d-printers-lands-japanese-artist-in-trouble

<< Megumi Igarashi, aka Rokudenashiko, arrested for emailing digital template of her genitalia to supporters of her art. >>

It's simply amazing (and quite depressing too) that anyone with a clue about what Butterfly Labs have done in the past would even consider buying anything from that "company". I'd love to see those fucking scammers in jail for a long time. Actually, I'm lying - I'd love to see them DEAD.