Rick Falkvinge, founder of the original pirate party and head of privacy at PrivateInternetAccess.com, joins us to discuss his recent article, “Today, the FBI becomes the enemy of every computer user and every IT security professional worldwide.” We dissect the new “Rule 41” that gives American law enforcement unprecedented leeway to break into any computer Read More…
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The Future Of Passports (& Citizenship By Investment)
“The bottom line is that anyone can be ISIS. We therefore need an approach to securing civilized societies that doesn’t allow individuals to hide behind the cloak of Western passports… The time has come for a “global passport,” a parallel digital certification of a person’s identity, background, criminal record, travel history, and other details. The Read More…
RFID Chip Implants Are Quickly Becoming A Reality For Americans
H.R. 4919, which allows the US government to actually implant RFID microchips into the bodies of those with “mental disabilities” for tracking purposes, recently passed the House. With the controversial nature of the recent bills being quietly passed, the US has found itself on a very dark and irreversible path away from what little democracy remains in Read More…
Starting Tomorrow, Feds Can Hack Millions of Devices with One Warrant
On Thursday, December 1, a vital Supreme Court order is set to go into effect that dramatically expands the surveillance power of federal agents. The impending alteration to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure softens the legal requirements for obtaining search and seizure warrants that grant the government remote access to individual’s Read More…
How Much Does The FBI Really Know About You?
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is facing a new lawsuit from EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) regarding the agency’s latest biometric identification system. The FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is made up of fingerprints, iris scans, faceprints, and other facial recognition data. EPIC is suing regarding the FBI’s plan to include tattoos and scars Read More…
Is Reddit Now Compromised?
It has been confirmed that due to his inability to handle verbal slurs, Reddit CEO, Steve Huffman (u/spez username) has confessed to modifying some posts in “The_Donald subreddit” which is the most popular forum on Reddit for discussing Donald Trump. Just to get an idea on the scale of the forum, there are roughly 301k Read More…






