{"id":18987,"date":"2016-03-18T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18987"},"modified":"2016-03-18T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:01:04","slug":"one-nation-under-surveillance-u-s-government-pushed-tech-companies-to-hand-over-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18987","title":{"rendered":"One Nation Under Surveillance \u2013 U.S. Government Pushed Tech Companies to Hand Over Source Code"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One Nation Under Surveillance \u2013 U.S. Government Pushed Tech Companies to Hand Over Source Code<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Our founding fathers studied power structures over the millennia and knew exactly what they were doing when solidifying the Bill of Rights into the U.S. Constitution. All it took was a couple hundred years, an extraordinarily ignorant and apathetic American public, and a major terror attack to roll back this\u00a0multi-generational gift.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For many years, I and countless others have been screaming from the rooftops that a society should\u00a0never\u00a0trade civil liberties for security. Life on earth has always been dangerous for us humans, and what has historically separated free and noble civilizations from stunted tyrannies is a willingness to acknowledge such a precarious existence while at the same time demanding and defending one\u2019s dignity and liberty. In the aftermath of the attacks of 9\/11, the American public has demonstrated no such strength of character\u00a0or historical maturity, thus allowing a corrupt, deceptive\u00a0and lawless government to run roughshod over freedom with very little resistance.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 From the post:\u00a0War on Terror Turns Inward \u2013 NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Freedom? Liberty? Don\u2019t be ridiculous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a little while since I\u2019ve updated readers on the shady, shameless surveillance practices of the U.S. government. As usual, it\u2019s worse than we thought.<\/p>\n

ZDNet<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK \u2014 The US government has made numerous attempts to obtain source code from tech companies in an effort to find security flaws that could be used for surveillance or investigations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The government has demanded source code in civil cases filed under seal\u00a0but also by seeking clandestine rulings authorized under the secretive\u00a0Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act<\/a>\u00a0(FISA)<\/strong>, a person with direct knowledge of these demands told ZDNet. We\u2019re not naming the person as they relayed information that is likely classified.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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