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1.		NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (cypherspace.org)
		442 points by EthanHeilman on June 8, 2013 \| 85 comments
2.		Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Must Stay Secret (eff.org)
		328 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 \| 18 comments
3.		Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011) (chronicle.com)
		278 points by ekm2 on June 8, 2013 \| 57 comments
4.		Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveillance program (nytimes.com)
		262 points by rdl on June 8, 2013 \| 161 comments
5.		Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks (reuters.com)
		247 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 \| 104 comments
6.		Electronic Frontier Foundation Survives on $5M/year (charitynavigator.org)
		243 points by mapt on June 8, 2013 \| 51 comments
7.		Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children" (wikipedia.org)
		233 points by gridmaths on June 8, 2013 \| 173 comments
8.		Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies (theweek.com)
		223 points by cpleppert on June 8, 2013 \| 51 comments
9.		Rope (data structure) (wikipedia.org)
		217 points by jmduke on June 8, 2013 \| 30 comments
10.		Deny PRISM - Generate a PRISM involvement denial statement for your company (colingourlay.github.io)
		208 points by collypops on June 8, 2013 \| 14 comments
11.		The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism (zdnet.com)
		201 points by daigoba66 on June 8, 2013 \| 45 comments
12.		GNUnet (gnunet.org)
		193 points by cdwhite on June 8, 2013 \| 46 comments
13.		Show HN: Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app (github.com/goshakkk)
		188 points by goshakkk on June 8, 2013 \| 12 comments
14.		US surveillance revelations deepen European fears (reuters.com)
		184 points by youngerdryas on June 8, 2013 \| 76 comments
15.		Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates (slashdot.org)
		163 points by sharms on June 8, 2013 \| 73 comments
16.		Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM (rachelbythebay.com)
		159 points by onosendai on June 8, 2013 \| 45 comments
17.		Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals (plus.google.com)
		158 points by msabalau on June 8, 2013 \| 103 comments
18.		Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech (theregister.co.uk)
		151 points by cdvonstinkpot on June 8, 2013 \| 78 comments
19.		Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth About Participation (techcrunch.com)
		134 points by seandhi on June 8, 2013 \| 17 comments
20.		How not to be alone (nytimes.com)
		124 points by gjenkin on June 8, 2013 \| 74 comments
21.		Logic Programming is Underrated (swannodette.github.io)
		119 points by llambda on June 8, 2013 \| 27 comments
22.		Rand Paul Bill Would Curb NSA on Phone Records (abcnews.go.com)
		119 points by uvdiv on June 8, 2013 \| 35 comments
23.		Torservers.net: Professional Global Tor infrastructure (stanford.edu)
		117 points by mo on June 8, 2013 \| 24 comments
24.		Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks (guardian.co.uk)
		107 points by schrofer on June 8, 2013 \| 17 comments
25.		Why a top terrorism analyst thinks US government surveillance has gone too far (slate.com)
		112 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 \| 18 comments
26.		Data intelligence complex is the real story (ft.com)
		97 points by teawithcarl on June 8, 2013 \| 48 comments
27.		How JavaScript compilers work (creativejs.com)
		95 points by wx196 on June 8, 2013 \| 26 comments
28.		Eric Schmidt: CNET gets it right on the NSA/Google issue (plus.google.com)
		97 points by moultano on June 8, 2013 \| 78 comments
29.		UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology (falkvinge.net)
		96 points by zoowar on June 8, 2013 \| 25 comments
30.		“The government does not have access to Google servers” (plus.google.com)
		94 points by captn3m0 on June 8, 2013 \| 59 comments
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