Posted on 07/07/2014 4:32:44 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Linux Journal, a Linux user community website, has been flagged as an "extremist forum" by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA), while its users have been flagged as "extremists" under the agency's XKeyscore program, according to leaked source code.
The source code, which was published this week by German public broadcaster, ARD, also identified at least two German Tor Directory Authority servers — one in Berlin, the other in Nuremberg — as being under surveillance by the NSA.
The Tor Project is an independent, open-source anonymous software and browsing network that directs traffic through its free, worldwide, volunteer network to conceal users' locations and usage from surveillance.
According to an ARD report, the source code indicates that the German Tor servers are just two among a number of servers that have been targeted by the NSA for surveillance, under its XKeyscore program. The code cites a number of specific IP addresses of the Tor Directory Authority.
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
Lets try that again...
Linux Journal doesn't have a dead tree edition anymore, and hasn't for a couple of years.
... unless the White House considers you an 'extremist' or unless you are the U.S. ambassador to Libya or unless someone in the Executive Branch doesn't like you, in which case XKeyscore and the entire weight of the NSA will be brought to bear against a U.S. citizen with no intelligence value other than that you are on the outs with those in power.
The U.S. has become a banana republic.
Well then that explains why I haven’t seen it for a while! (I dismissed it’s absence as a symptom of ever shrinking stock at book stores) Still, there’s nothing “extremist” about it.
Thx for the info
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