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>Author and Critic Deepens EFF's Security Expertise as NSA Scandal Intensifies

Great news - I've read a couple of really interesting articles that Schneier's put out in recent weeks - but is the scandal actually intensifying? I'm afraid somebody is going to need to fill me in on the current state of the reaction from the public/media at large; I tend to lock myself in a filter bubble of news relevant to my interests.

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Yup, lots of more information keeps coming out, you just have to know where to keep up with it. Here's a great source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-nsa-files

Awesome, great link, wasn't aware of that. I've just been following Greenwald's twitter account directly. But my comment was referring to the public's/media's reaction to the story, rather than your and my increasing knowledge of the situation.

The media prefers to attack Snowden (or Greenwald) personally, and not talk about PRISM or the NSA at all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/nsa-reve...

I get the impression that the scandal is focused on Snowden (and his whereabouts) rather than on mass collection of data. But this is just my opinion.

I believe you're right. Almost every article with NSA in the headline that I've seen also has Snowden, or Ecuador, or Russia.

So basically, your point about the focus being drawn away from the NSA itself seems correct to me.

I think Snowden and the NSA spying he brought to light are independent and very important issues, and we should try hard not to lose sight of either. The latter for reasons that I assume are obvious; the former because, as I've said elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953059) whistleblowers are a very important check against abuses, and we need to protect them.

Let's get together and turn some talk into action: http://www.meetup.com/Hack-Government-Bay-Area

That's certainly what the US media is reporting on.

Here's a better source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-nsa-files

> I tend to lock myself in a filter bubble of news relevant to my interests

Maybe you should use DuckDuckGo [1].

[1] http://dontbubble.us/

DuckDuckGo avoids the 'Google' bubble, which happens when the search engine tailors results based on what it thinks you want. Even with engines that do not do this, you still can easily form a bubble by biases in what search terms you use, and in what sources you choose to look at.

This is my problem. I get most of my technology (and recently the NSA stuff) news from HN, some current events from NPR, and then a couple other politics sites I frequent which I'd rather not divulge ;)

I recently stopped watching everyone on MSNBC but Chris Hayes. He has a great show. He's had Greenwald on a couple times in the past few weeks. Also, Democracy Now! is really great. One of the only programs on TV that talks about Wikileaks and Manning on a semi-regular basis.

Not Fox "News" I hope ;-)

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