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You Can Now Buy an Edward Snowden Action Figure
ThatsMyFace.com, the company behind the Julian Assange doll, is now peddling an Edward Snowden figure that is eerily lifelike. Surely, a Chelsea Manning toy isn't far behind.
The Prism Prize Top Ten Canadian Videos of 2014
View the ten best Canadian music videos of the year, as chosen by a jury of media experts.
I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Can We Talk?'
Filmmaker Jim Owen brings this painful possibility into a hilariously deadpan, and ultimately bittersweet, reality in the 2010 short film Can We Talk? It finds a patronizing boyfriend, Vince, attempting to break up and score a blowjob from his...
The Future of Journalism in an Age of Government Surveillance
How our governments are waging a war on whistleblowers.
An Iranian News Agency Claims America Is Run By Nazi Space Aliens
News broke earlier this week through the Fars News Agency (an Iranian media outlet that the Washington Post describes as “semi-official”) that Edward Snowden provided documents to Russia’s Federal Security Services (FSB) which provide...
You'll Never Guess How Many Terrorist Plots the NSA's Domestic Spy Program Has Foiled
The president is going to have a hard time falling back on the old standby explanation that massive data collection is a necessary evil to protect the country from terrorism.
The NSA's Spying on America's Allies Is Just Business as Usual
As America's government is discovering, when you get caught spying on your closest allies and have to have your dirty laundry aired in public it's very, very humiliating. Will the latest NSA revelations have lasting effects?
NSA Haiku Generator Creates Poems Out Of Verboten Words
Federal Bureau/Becker Islamist veggie/Spetznaz Port Scammers is one of many haikus that could land you on their radar.
NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch to YouTube: "It's Like Taking a Bath"
Enjoy this new and rather weird interview with the NSA director, produced by the DOD.
I'm Short Not Stupid Presents: 'Day 37'
It’s been 37 days since Sgt. Baker and Sgt. Mallory landed on Mars. The two astronauts are charged with maintaining a data tower on the desolate red planet. Problem is, they have run out of things to talk about. Maybe they had interesting discussions...
Jacob Appelbaum's Utopia
The American security expert who helped develop Tor became an enemy of the state. But he is hardly the "most dangerous man in cyberspace."
Is CSEC, the Canadian Version of the NSA, Trustworthy?
With the whole world up in arms about the NSA's rampant surveillance of ordinary citizens, very little is known about CSEC, the Communications Security Establishment Canada, which has existed for 68 years, even though the government only acknowledged...