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1. Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) (cnet.com)
592 points by bconway on June 7, 2013 | 299 comments
2. Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (andrewkelley.me)
560 points by darkf on June 7, 2013 | 96 comments
3. The Internet Is a Surveillance State (schneier.com)
528 points by gits1225 on June 7, 2013 | 115 comments
4. What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know (theatlantic.com)
460 points by ssclafani on June 7, 2013 | 188 comments
5. Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM (facebook.com)
412 points by cbrsch on June 7, 2013 | 282 comments
6. Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway (venturebeat.com)
341 points by cwilson on June 7, 2013 | 81 comments
7. Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (2001) (stallman.org)
338 points by k2enemy on June 7, 2013 | 119 comments
8. Burner Phone (burnerphone.us)
317 points by rubyrescue on June 7, 2013 | 222 comments
9. NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, ISPs, Credit Card Providers (wsj.com)
315 points by rasterizer on June 7, 2013 | 9 comments
10. Hacker Who Helped Expose Steubenville Could Get More Prison Time Than Rapists (businessinsider.com)
287 points by soleimc on June 7, 2013 | 75 comments
11. Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link (talkingpointsmemo.com)
278 points by retr0grad3 on June 7, 2013 | 155 comments
12. Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X (shortcatapp.com)
277 points by superchink on June 7, 2013 | 100 comments
13. AngularJS Learning Resources (github.com/jmcunningham)
253 points by jeffcunningham on June 7, 2013 | 42 comments
14. Keep the NSA out of WebRTC
254 points by nullc on June 7, 2013 | 17 comments
15. The Insane Law That Lets Authorities Read Any Email Over 180 Days Old (businessinsider.com)
234 points by elleferrer on June 7, 2013 | 49 comments
16. How to Leak to the Press (wired.com)
236 points by phxql on June 7, 2013 | 100 comments
17. The Supreme Court may have already ruled NSA phone surveillance is illegal (influencehacks.com)
232 points by il on June 7, 2013 | 13 comments
18. Yandex Islands (yandex.com)
224 points by thewarrior on June 7, 2013 | 71 comments
19. NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’ (washingtonpost.com)
219 points by tigger on June 7, 2013 | 30 comments
20. White House admits it has 'access' to Facebook, Google (theweek.co.uk)
210 points by WestCoastJustin on June 7, 2013 | 88 comments
21. Assange in 2011: "They have automated the process." (thenextweb.com)
198 points by why-el on June 7, 2013 | 84 comments
22. Google, Facebook, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM (techcrunch.com)
188 points by TheFullStack on June 7, 2013 | 30 comments
23. How likely is the NSA PRISM program to catch a terrorist? (bayesianbiologist.com)
181 points by johndcook on June 7, 2013 | 61 comments
24. Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate (nytimes.com)
181 points by uvdiv on June 7, 2013 | 74 comments
25. When NSLs have been challenged in court, the government has withdrawn (aclunc.org)
179 points by diafygi on June 7, 2013 | 28 comments
26. Space Invaders 404 (masswerk.at)
175 points by carlsednaoui on June 7, 2013 | 68 comments
27. Palantir Denies Its 'Prism' Software Is The NSA's 'PRISM' Surveillance System (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
172 points by taylorbuley on June 7, 2013 | 38 comments
28. Anonymous releases NSA documents (pastebin.com)
166 points by nikcub on June 7, 2013 | 18 comments
29. Facts about Wayland vs X (phoronix.com)
161 points by microwise on June 7, 2013 | 127 comments
30. Utah Data Center (wikipedia.org)
161 points by merinid on June 7, 2013 | 33 comments

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