NSA had reverse-engineered many of Google's and Yahoo's inner workings.

The National Security Agency finds itself under intense pressure after disclosures of spying on allies and rivals alike, but it defends the wide net it casts.

NSA and UK's GCHQ got more than they could handle from the private data links.

Agency positioned itself to collect from among millions of accounts, many of them belonging to Americans

Social networking site says it was unnecessary, "sorry for any inconvenience."

And the top 5 things that have happened as a result of the whistleblowing.

Email metadata. Encryption works; the NSA knows less about GMail users than other webmailers, because GMail uses https by default.

May make it easier to follow privacy-minded users on the darknet.

"Computers are everywhere. They are now something we put our whole bodies into—airplanes, cars—and something we put into our bodies—pacemakers, cochlear implants. They HAVE to be trustworthy."–EFF

Strong encryption and going off the grid are your only options.

New York Times reports that NSA has complex maps of social ties based on metadata.

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Lyrics:
I think this place is full of spies
I think they're onto me
Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you
Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room
I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
And now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain

I think this place is full of spies
I think I'm ruined
Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you
Didn't anybody tell you, this river's full of lost sharks
I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

And now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
And now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

Created with written permissions/agreements with: Universal Music Group.
The single, produced by Nick Lowe, was the first to be credited to 'Elvis Costello & the Attractions', reflecting the new backing band that he was using, previous releases being credited solely to the singer. The lead track was, in fact, recorded in May 1977, before the Attractions existed - the backing band on the song were Steve Goulding on drums and Andrew Bodnar on bass guitar, both from Graham Parker's band, The Rumour.  Keyboard overdubs were added later by Steve Nason (later better-known as Steve Nieve). It was also the first top 40 hit in the UK Singles Chart for Costello, reaching #15 and spending a total of eleven weeks in the chart.
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Art & Video: (Kinneas) Tony Tuthill
This video is a big deal for me and a milestone. It's not the pretiest; but at the time it was made getting artwork and text to encode and playback on YouTube was by experimentation only. There was no help file or auto encoding or anything back then. This was made right after I hit upon the right parameters. I didn't spend that much time on the art as I had no idea if it would work.

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T R U S T !

Jay Rosen: A Johns Hopkins computer science professor blogs on the NSA and is asked to take it down. I fear for academic freedom

The NSA and other spies worldwide have come up with an unimaginable matrix.

NSA infiltrating standards bodies to get encryption weakened, as well as putting moles in telcos and ISPs. Greeeeeeeeeeeat.

We explain why publishing this story about U.S. and U.K. government efforts to decode enormous amounts of internet traffic previously thought to have been safe is in the public interest.