• Microsoft borks botnet takedown in Citadel snafu, The Register
• Ask Personal Audio’s James Logan About Patents, Playlists, and Podcasts, Slashdot
• Remember When Supreme Court Rejected Review Of FISA Amendments Act, Because It Was ‘Too Speculative’ That Plaintiffs Were Being Monitored?, Techdirt
• UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies, TorrentFreak
• Google Opens Up Some More: The ‘Secret’ Computer System It Uses To Give Info To NSA Is Secure FTP, Techdirt
• ACLU Sues The Government On Its Own Behalf, As A Verizon Customer, Arguing 4th Amendment Violations, Techdirt
• Irish SOPA Used To Block Pirate Bay Access, Slashdot
• Citadel takedown took down security researchers too, The H Security
• New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions, threatpost
• German Parliament Tells Government To Strictly Limit Patents On Software, Slashdot
• NSA: ‘Dozens of attacks’ prevented by snooping, The Register
• FISA Court Rejects Catch-22 Secrecy Argument in FOIA Case, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Lawsuit: “Happy Birthday” is not in copyright, and Warner owes the world hundreds of millions for improperly collected royalties, Boing Boing
• Sen Warren to US Trade Rep: release the Trans-Pacific Partnership docs – if they piss the people off, then we shouldn’t be part of it, Boing Boing
• A Strategy for Combating Patent Trolls, Charles Schumer at WSJ.com via Slashdot
• Leaked: NSA’s Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance, Techdirt
• Congress’ Response To Leaks? Stop Contractors From Access To Classified Material Rather Than Stop NSA Spying, Techdirt
• Duke Nukem Creators 3D Realms Suing Gearbox over Unpaid Royalties, Kotaku
• Lessig: It’s time to rewrite the internet to give us better privacy and security, Boing Boing
• Warner Bros. Copyright Trolling Customers Of Non-Six Strikes ISPs, Techdirt
• Intel removes modest ‘free’ overclocking from standard Haswell CPUs, The Tech Report via Slashdot
• POTI, Creators of the Songbird Media Player, Call It Quits, Slashdot
• Ladies and Gentlemen, SCO v. IBM Is Officially Reopened ~pj, Groklaw
• Details emerge about PRISM, big tech companies release data request reports, Ars Technica
• NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls, Politics and Law at CNET News
• Hey Hadopi, You’re Breaking The Law. We Made “Three Strikes” Illegal Across All Europe., TorrentFreak

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• Yet Another Leak Shows NSA Lied About Not Being Able To Geolocate Data It Scoops Up, Techdirt
• Making sense of the NSA Prism leak as the real details emerge, ExtremeTech
• Former U.S. Prosecutor Sues Obama and NSA over PRISM Scandal, TorrentFreak
• Security-State Creep: The Real NSA Scandal Is What’s Legal, Rebecca J. Rosen at The Atlantic
• How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on, ExtremeTech
• Author Of The Patriot Act Says NSA Surveillance Is An Abuse And Must End, Techdirt
• Spy Court Urged to Unmask Legal Basis for NSA Dragnet Phone Surveillance, Threat Level at Wired.com
• Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism, Slashdot
• Suit Filed Against NSA, Obama Over Surveillance Program, threatpost
• Mozilla, EFF and 86 others launch campaign against surveillance, The H Open
• Google Seeks OK From Feds to Disclose Stats on Secret Court Orders, Threat Level at Wired.com
• Mozilla wants 500M users to tell gov’t: “stop watching us”, Ars Technica
• Rackspace response to requests for user info, The Rackspace Open Cloud Community via Groklaw NewsPicks
• Senators Introduce Bill To End Secret Law That Enabled NSA Surveillance, Techdirt

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• Gaming Roots: MUD and the Birth of MMOs, Slashdot
• Phenomenon Discovered In Ultracold Atoms Brings Us a Step Closer To Atomtronics, Slashdot
• ‘Anti-Gravity’ 3D Printer Uses Strands to Sculpt Shapes on Any Surface, Singularity Hub via Slashdot
• Has the web developed how Berners-Lee hoped it would?, BBC News
• Comcast turns your Xfinity modem into public Wi-Fi hotspot, Ars Technica
• Hacker SuperDaE Releases 1.7TB Trove of Gaming Info [Update], Kotaku via Slashdot
• The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video), Slashdot

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• DRM for e-books: Repeating history, not learning from it, Corrente via Slashdot
• “Irish SOPA” To Receive First Test in Pirate Bay Blocking Case, TorrentFreak
• House to consider cellphone unlocking, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• This American Life Followup On Patents Reveals Intellectual Ventures Is Even Slimier Than Previously Believed, Techdirt
• Steelie Neelie: Crack down on wicked ISPs so we can Skype, The Register
• Planet Money Takes On The Podcasting Patent Troll, Techdirt
• Judge Blocks Order Demanding Suspect Decrypt Computer Drives or Face Jail, Threat Level at Wired.com
• Whatever Happened To The Exaflood?, Techdirt
• EU’s Chief Negotiator Has Learned Nothing From ACTA, Will Negotiate TAFTA In Secret, Techdirt
• CIA Releases Analyst’s Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture, Threat Level at Wired.com
• New HTML 5.1 working draft released, The H Developer
• Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts, Slashdot
• Intellectual Ventures Responds To This American Life & President Obama By… Filing More Patent Lawsuits, Techdirt
• Feds say they can search your laptop at the border but won’t say why, Ars Technica
• Wireless industry to back cellphone unlocking bill, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• Congress Moves To Protect Phone Unlockers: A Small Step Towards Fixing the DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• All major UK ISPs prepping network-level porn ‘n’ violence filters, The Register
• Pirate Bay co-founder faces major new hacking charges in Denmark, Ars Technica
• Senator Lindsey Graham Apparently Not Sure If Bloggers Deserve ‘First Amendment Protection’, Techdirt
• Microsoft details Xbox One used games, “always online,” and privacy policies, Ars Technica
• Warner Bros: We’re Fining File-Sharers Who Use Non Six-Strike ISPs, TorrentFreak
• Massachusetts High Court Recognizes Right to be Free From GPS Surveillance, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Whistleblower who exposed NSA mass-surveillance revealed by The Guardian, Ars Technica
• NSA Phone-Record Tracking Troubles Privacy Scholars, MIT Technology Review
• Washington Post Quietly Backtrcks On Claim That Tech Companies Knowingly Gave NSA Data, As Denials Get Stronger, Techdirt
• Facebook & Google CEOs Say NSA Spy Program Is News To Them, ReadWrite
• PRISM and denials, what’s going on?, Boing Boing
• More Details On PRISM Revealed; Twitter Deserves Kudos For Refusing To Give In, Techdirt

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• Bombshell Report: NSA and FBI ‘Tapping Directly’ Into Tech Companies’ Servers
  Alexis C. Madrigal at The Atlantic was the first I saw in my feeds with this follow on to yesterday’s concerning news. This just keeps getting better, even if the truth is only a fraction of what has been reported on the overall scope of PRISM today.
• NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook, Threat Level at Wired.com
• Internet companies deny helping NSA, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• Administration: NSA Internet tapping not targeted at Americans, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• Security-State Creep: The Real NSA Scandal Is What’s Legal, Rebecca J. Rosen at The Atlantic
• Google denies giving NSA back-door access to user data, Boing Boing
• The Hassle of Keeping All Your Conversations Private, Gadget Lab at Wired.com
• Contact Lens Computer: Like Google Glass, without the Glasses, MIT Technology Review
• More From the ‘Leaked Document’ File: Obama’s Cyber-Attack Directive, Megan Garber at The Atlantic

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• Report: NSA Was Granted Order to Snag Millions of Verizon Call Records for 3 Months
  Threat Level at Wired was just the first post in my feeds covering this story. I am sure I saw it even earlier this morning, through my social networks. Given the massive resistance to overhauling FISA, spinning down the Patroit act and even legitimate lawsuits in reaction to security letters and other law enforcement overreaches, I cannot say this latest news surprises me. It thoroughly sickens me but does not at all surprise me.
• Top secret doc shows NSA demands Verizon hand over millions of phone records daily, Ars Technica
• Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans at Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF
• Verizon Breaks Silence on Top-Secret Surveillance of Its Customers
  Threat Level at Wired was the first to report Verizon’s response to the story that broke earlier today about their complicity in a massive data snarf. Again, this is the exact answer I expect, or rather non-answer. It is infuriating for reminding us of just how powerless we are as consumers and citizens. We have no protections or recourse in the face of this sort of massive, and secret, invasion of our privacy. And there is no effective choice in the market to send the only kind of signal to which Verizon, and the other carriers, clearly respond.
• Obama administration defends mass call-data slurping, The Register
• Quadcopter Guided By Thought — Accurately, Slashdot
• “Temporal cloak” used to hide data transmitted at 12.7 Gbps, Ars Technica
• Time for total war on patent trolls, Boing Boing
• A woman in IT is like a dog who speaks: Rare. A woman in IT security?
  The Register describes a British survey that reveals how much scarcer gender diversity is in information security than IT generally. I can easily believe a survey conducted in the US and many other nations would be consistent. Having seen much of the security space first hand, I don’t wonder at all why. As immature and mysogynist as regular techies can be, many security folks seem to have an outright grudge against women entering the field for reasons that entirely escape me.
• An ultrasonic intra-body communication network for bionic implants, ExtremeTech
• In praise of leakers, including “The Unknown Patriot” who outed the US phone spying program, Boing Boing

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