Tag Archives: spying
Happy Birthday, N.S.A.
Today as Americans turn-out to vote in both state and federal midterm elections, very few voters are aware that we’re also celebrating the 62nd birthday of the N.S.A. which was founded in 1952, 3 years after George Orwell published 1984. The N.S.A.’s purview is signal intelligence — they monitor information and data from around the [...]
Posted in Counter Culture |
Tagged boomerang routing, code, data, Edward Snowden, hacked, information, N.S.A., Spy V.S. Spy, spying, Vietnam War
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Summer Reading: 1984
In the wake of the NSA/Snowden revelations, and the general sense of paranoia that has taken grip of the news cycle and the internet, a few pundits have assumed the roles of cultural watchdogs, taking the pulse of public taste to measure the effect of the spooky news on the hearts and minds of the [...]
Posted in Books, Cinema |
Tagged 1984, Amazon, Big Brother, George Orwell, John Hurt, NSA, Snowden, spying, the Party, Thought Police
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