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National Post headlines for Wednesday, July 10, 2013
From @fullcomment: Scott Van Wynsberghe: A real-life Doctor Who http://t.co/Qdd0gx5kDx
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 11, 2013
Judge defends elaborate surveillance regime used to stop ‘extreme animal lover’ from feeding rats, pigeons http://t.co/2QveSLYP87
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From @npsport Raptors finally free to talk about deal that ends Andrea Bargnani era http://t.co/03B674lbCm
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 11, 2013
CN Rail serves still-grieving mother with $500,000 suit two years after her son was fatally struck by a train http://t.co/Pyi9LiOE7o
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 10, 2013
Alberta’s budget designed to ‘hide and confuse and confound people’ over deficit: critics charge http://t.co/4CYwhTAeDs
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 10, 2013
Toronto’s board of health urges province to fund safe-injection site, but Ford says ‘taxpayers don’t want that’ http://t.co/zpQ9h7iROD
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 10, 2013
‘I wanted to see my children’s murderer’: Grieving town greets railway boss with jeers and icy stares http://t.co/Xw0loY1Sk0
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 10, 2013
Texas House passes abortion bill on second try after epic filibuster stopped first attempt http://t.co/LckDMz3AhQ
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 10, 2013
A number of deleted gas-plant emails have been recovered, information commissioner says http://t.co/4QR3QNFhJe
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 10, 2013
Saudi Arabia has missiles poised and pointed at Israel and Iran, satellite image suggests http://t.co/RSZluw2m8z
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 10, 2013
From @fptechdesk: Apple found guilty in e-books case may influence Canada class-action http://t.co/v2ZVihK811 #cdntech
— National Post (@nationalpost) July 10, 2013
Folks, this is the English original. Edward Snowden Interview: The NSA and Its Willing Helpers http://t.co/jzhxnsbHjV via @SPIEGELONLINE
— SPIEGEL English (@SPIEGEL_English) July 8, 2013
Interviewer: What are some of the big surveillance programs that are active today and how do international partners aid the NSA?
Snowden: In some cases, the so-called Five Eye Partners 4 go beyond what NSA itself does. For instance, the UK's General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has a system called TEMPORA. TEMPORA is the signals intelligence community's first "full-take" Internet buffer that doesn't care about content type and pays only marginal attention to the Human Rights Act. It snarfs everything, in a rolling buffer to allow retroactive investigation without missing a single bit. Right now the buffer can hold three days of traffic, but that's being improved. Three days may not sound like much, but remember that that's not metadata. "Full-take" means it doesn't miss anything, and ingests the entirety of each circuit's capacity. If you send a single ICMP packet 5 and it routes through the UK, we get it. If you download something and the CDN (Content Delivery Network) happens to serve from the UK, we get it. If your sick daughter's medical records get processed at a London call center … well, you get the idea.
The possibility that the Canadian government is not aware of this seems preposterous. The implications are appalling. The National Post seems oblivious