Author: mediahitman

Canadian federal agencies’ practice of continuous snooping on what Canadian citizens are posting via their social network accounts is set to be reviewed, as it may contradict the federal Privacy Act, local media report. Treasury Board President Tony Clement promised that his staff will look into the issue of the collection of the Canadians’ personal data from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a letter he wrote in response to the concerns raised by the country’s privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier.

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Lots of people are angry about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Internet “fast lane” proposal that would let Internet service providers charge Web services for priority access to consumers. But one Web hosting service called NeoCities isn’t just writing letters to the FCC. Instead, the company found the FCC’s internal IP address range and throttled all connections to 28.8Kbps speeds.

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Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev requested a lawyer multiple times from his hospital bed after being arrested, yet investigators continued pressuring him to answer questions alone, Tsarnaev’s lawyers claimed in court Thursday. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation spent hours interrogating Tsarnaev after he first asked for an attorney while recovering from gunshot wounds to the face, throat, head, and jaw in the time following his arrest in Watertown, Massachusetts

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Family members of the victims killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have scheduled a demonstration for this weekend to protest a plan to relocate unidentified remains at the site underground. New York City officials announced that they plan to move the unidentified remains from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on the East Side of Manhattan to a tomb beneath the National September 11 Memorial Museum

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I have different approach to making internet users want to come to our website. I started with securing our website with a high-grade 2048 bit SSL certificate with high cipher standards along with a reverse proxy and other security measures which upgrade our servers from the easily spied http traffic from the NSA. We know; “Just because you have SSL doesn’t mean your protected” Yes remember the heart-bleed exploit, our servers were fix a day or two before it went public, some companies fixed it instantaneous. Nothing was exploited from the server, not like there is anything secure or important…

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In just one decade, just about every country in the world will have the means to either build or buy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) capable of launching missiles at enemy targets, thus dramatically changing the face of warfare. Despite a track record that is stained with the blood of innocent victims, drone technology is quickly becoming the weapon of choice for militaries around the globe, and it’s too late for the United States

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Marijuana reform advocates hope Oklahoma will live up to its nickname – the Sooner State – by becoming the first U.S. jurisdiction to both legalize cannabis for personal use and allow it to be exported as a cash crop. In the best-case scenario for pro-pot campaigners, there will be two initiatives on the November ballot: One that would allow medical marijuana and another more far-reaching initiative that would comprehensively dismantle status quo pot policies.

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The U.S. Federal Reserve Police is the law enforcement arm of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. The Federal Reserve Board Police in Washington DC is not part of the same entity as Federal Reserve System Law Enforcement Units located in the 12 districts (covering all 50 states) throughout the nation.

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A conservative American attorney who has previously taken cases to the United State Supreme Court and won says he plans on pursuing a fight against a new federal tax law expected to go into effect later this year. The Washington Times reported on Monday this week that lawyer Jim Bopp is putting in motion a plan to challenge the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, which once enacted on July 1 will require foreign banks and other financial institutions to report to the US government information about accounts registered to Americans worth more than $50,000.

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By Jason Leopold Email exchanges between National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt suggest a far cozier working relationship between some tech firms and the U.S. government than was implied by Silicon Valley brass after last year’s revelations about NSA spying.

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership sounds deadly boring. It’s not. The potential impact on humanity from this proposed mega-deal is impossible to measure. TPP could bankrupt families in Kansas and enrich them in Kuala Lumpur. Or make patented medicine wildly unaffordable for sick people in poor places. Or even imprison citizens of 12 countries for pirating Game of Thrones episodes.

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An FBI agent is being held on anti-terrorism charges in Pakistan after authorities found ammunition in a bag as he boarded a plane in Karachi, Pakistani and U.S. officials said Tuesday. The agent was detained by airport police in Karachi about 4 p.m. Monday when he tried to board a Pakistan International Airlines flight to Islamabad. He was in possession of 15 bullets and a magazine for a 9mm pistol, police officials said.

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By Julie Wilson Treating cancer has become one of the fastest growing, economically thriving, money making businesses in the United States. This government funded business is shockingly raking in over $1.3 million dollars per patient. Until recent years, patients had no choice for treating cancer other than turning to chemotherapy and radiation. It’s widely known that conventional treatments such as those, not only kills cancer cells, but the healthy cells as well, making it extremely difficult for the immune system to replenish itself.

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