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1. NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (cypherspace.org)
442 points by EthanHeilman on June 8, 2013 | 85 comments
2. Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Must Stay Secret (eff.org)
328 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 | 18 comments
3. Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011) (chronicle.com)
278 points by ekm2 on June 8, 2013 | 57 comments
4. Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveillance program (nytimes.com)
262 points by rdl on June 8, 2013 | 161 comments
5. Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks (reuters.com)
247 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 | 104 comments
6. Electronic Frontier Foundation Survives on $5M/year (charitynavigator.org)
243 points by mapt on June 8, 2013 | 51 comments
7. Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children" (wikipedia.org)
233 points by gridmaths on June 8, 2013 | 173 comments
8. Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies (theweek.com)
223 points by cpleppert on June 8, 2013 | 51 comments
9. Rope (data structure) (wikipedia.org)
217 points by jmduke on June 8, 2013 | 30 comments
10. Deny PRISM - Generate a PRISM involvement denial statement for your company (colingourlay.github.io)
208 points by collypops on June 8, 2013 | 14 comments
11. The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism (zdnet.com)
201 points by daigoba66 on June 8, 2013 | 45 comments
12. GNUnet (gnunet.org)
193 points by cdwhite on June 8, 2013 | 46 comments
13. Show HN: Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app (github.com/goshakkk)
188 points by goshakkk on June 8, 2013 | 12 comments
14. US surveillance revelations deepen European fears (reuters.com)
184 points by youngerdryas on June 8, 2013 | 76 comments
15. Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates (slashdot.org)
163 points by sharms on June 8, 2013 | 73 comments
16. Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM (rachelbythebay.com)
159 points by onosendai on June 8, 2013 | 45 comments
17. Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals (plus.google.com)
158 points by msabalau on June 8, 2013 | 103 comments
18. Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech (theregister.co.uk)
151 points by cdvonstinkpot on June 8, 2013 | 78 comments
19. Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth About Participation (techcrunch.com)
134 points by seandhi on June 8, 2013 | 17 comments
20. How not to be alone (nytimes.com)
124 points by gjenkin on June 8, 2013 | 74 comments
21. Logic Programming is Underrated (swannodette.github.io)
119 points by llambda on June 8, 2013 | 27 comments
22. Rand Paul Bill Would Curb NSA on Phone Records (go.com)
119 points by uvdiv on June 8, 2013 | 35 comments
23. Torservers.net: Professional Global Tor infrastructure (stanford.edu)
117 points by mo on June 8, 2013 | 24 comments
24. Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks (guardian.co.uk)
107 points by schrofer on June 8, 2013 | 17 comments
25. Why a top terrorism analyst thinks US government surveillance has gone too far (slate.com)
112 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 | 18 comments
26. Data intelligence complex is the real story (ft.com)
97 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 | 48 comments
27. How JavaScript compilers work (creativejs.com)
95 points by wx196 on June 8, 2013 | 26 comments
28. Eric Schmidt: CNET gets it right on the NSA/Google issue (plus.google.com)
97 points by moultano on June 8, 2013 | 78 comments
29. UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology (falkvinge.net)
96 points by zoowar on June 8, 2013 | 25 comments
30. “The government does not have access to Google servers” (plus.google.com)
94 points by captn3m0 on June 8, 2013 | 59 comments

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