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1.		Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) (cnet.com)
		592 points by bconway on June 7, 2013 \| 299 comments
2.		Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (andrewkelley.me)
		560 points by darkf on June 7, 2013 \| 96 comments
3.		The Internet Is a Surveillance State (schneier.com)
		528 points by gits1225 on June 7, 2013 \| 115 comments
4.		What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know (theatlantic.com)
		460 points by ssclafani on June 7, 2013 \| 188 comments
5.		Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM (facebook.com)
		412 points by cbrsch on June 7, 2013 \| 282 comments
6.		Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway (venturebeat.com)
		341 points by cwilson on June 7, 2013 \| 81 comments
7.		Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (2001) (stallman.org)
		338 points by k2enemy on June 7, 2013 \| 119 comments
8.		Burner Phone (burnerphone.us)
		317 points by rubyrescue on June 7, 2013 \| 222 comments
9.		NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, ISPs, Credit Card Providers (wsj.com)
		315 points by rasterizer on June 7, 2013 \| 9 comments
10.		Hacker Who Helped Expose Steubenville Could Get More Prison Time Than Rapists (businessinsider.com)
		287 points by soleimc on June 7, 2013 \| 75 comments
11.		Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link (talkingpointsmemo.com)
		278 points by retr0grad3 on June 7, 2013 \| 155 comments
12.		Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X (shortcatapp.com)
		277 points by superchink on June 7, 2013 \| 100 comments
13.		AngularJS Learning Resources (github.com/jmcunningham)
		253 points by jeffcunningham on June 7, 2013 \| 42 comments
14.		Keep the NSA out of WebRTC
		254 points by nullc on June 7, 2013 \| 17 comments
15.		The Insane Law That Lets Authorities Read Any Email Over 180 Days Old (businessinsider.com)
		234 points by elleferrer on June 7, 2013 \| 49 comments
16.		How to Leak to the Press (wired.com)
		236 points by phxql on June 7, 2013 \| 100 comments
17.		The Supreme Court may have already ruled NSA phone surveillance is illegal (influencehacks.com)
		232 points by il on June 7, 2013 \| 13 comments
18.		Yandex Islands (yandex.com)
		224 points by thewarrior on June 7, 2013 \| 71 comments
19.		NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’ (washingtonpost.com)
		219 points by tigger on June 7, 2013 \| 30 comments
20.		White House admits it has 'access' to Facebook, Google (theweek.co.uk)
		210 points by WestCoastJustin on June 7, 2013 \| 88 comments
21.		Assange in 2011: "They have automated the process." (thenextweb.com)
		198 points by why-el on June 7, 2013 \| 84 comments
22.		Google, Facebook, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM (techcrunch.com)
		188 points by TheFullStack on June 7, 2013 \| 30 comments
23.		Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate (nytimes.com)
		181 points by uvdiv on June 7, 2013 \| 74 comments
24.		How likely is the NSA PRISM program to catch a terrorist? (bayesianbiologist.com)
		181 points by johndcook on June 7, 2013 \| 61 comments
25.		When NSLs have been challenged in court, the government has withdrawn (aclunc.org)
		179 points by diafygi on June 7, 2013 \| 28 comments
26.		Space Invaders 404 (masswerk.at)
		175 points by carlsednaoui on June 7, 2013 \| 68 comments
27.		Palantir Denies Its 'Prism' Software Is The NSA's 'PRISM' Surveillance System (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		172 points by taylorbuley on June 7, 2013 \| 38 comments
28.		Anonymous releases NSA documents (pastebin.com)
		166 points by nikcub on June 7, 2013 \| 18 comments
29.		Facts about Wayland vs X (phoronix.com)
		161 points by microwise on June 7, 2013 \| 127 comments
30.		Utah Data Center (wikipedia.org)
		161 points by merinid on June 7, 2013 \| 33 comments
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