Every one of Whistler's communications reads like a little polished mirror, designed to dazzle and deflect the spectator's eye outwards.
Among those whose communications were read in this way: Bill Clinton.The FISA court is purportedly duly angry about the agency's overstepping the bounds of some eight to ten court orders, potentially covering thousands of communications each.
And why? Had the powers that be at the communications giant read an earlier confessional I'd published in this newspaper, documenting my journey to becoming a bandwidth thief?
To find out more about the review group on intelligence and communications technologies, read national security journalist Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) writing in the Guardian: Two things are at issue with this jockeying.
Mr. Cherny first caught the eye of Democratic heavyweights during his senior year at Harvard, when Donald Baer, then the White House communications director, read a piece he had written for the student newspaper, The Crimson, analyzing President Clinton's landslide victory of 1996.
Journalists are accustomed to working with whistleblowers who have a lot to lose, but when an inmate's communications are read by the institution under scrutiny, the challenge is formidable.
For communications with end-to-end encryption enabled, bulk surveillance is difficult, since only the metadata around the communications can be read without the encryption key.
The country's computers run custom-created software that is built to stop information escaping and to ensure that communications can be read.
But "strict additional safeguards" should be added, including rules that mean judges must be consulted on whether people's messages and communications can be read.
For example, our Communications classes might read and discuss Times articles about cheating at New York's Stuyvesant High School alongside an article about cheating in online classes.
