The government is like a poorly trained dog. If you let one bad behavior go, it just escalates until they bite. The government has been searching electronics like cell phones and laptops at the border since early in the Bush administration. But because the 9/11 attacks were fresh, and because the practice was not widespread, Read More…
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U.S. Border Crossings Have Become Authoritarian Testing Grounds
Last week, my brother and his longterm girlfriend entered these United States at JFK international airport in New York City. She’s a Chinese citizen with a tourist (B1/B2 visa), which leads to many restrictions on when she’s allowed to enter and for how long. They are always meticulous about playing everything exactly by the book, and this Read More…
Wikileaks Reveals “Dumbo”: Tool That Allows CIA To Shut Down Cameras And Microphones
Since WikiLeaks began releasing classified CIA documents back in March as part of its “Vault 7” series of leaks, purportedly the largest document dump in the agency’s history, it has publicly unveiled programs with innocent sounding names like “Marble,” “Scribbles” and “Archimedes” that the agency employs to help execute its operations, or to cover its Read More…