US National Security Agency notes: Silencing university professors? & Has NSA impersonated Google and possibly other major internet sites in order to intercept, store, and read supposedly secure online communications?

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Source: saltspringnews.com --- Friday, September 13, 2013
America's system of research universities is the best in the world. No one argues with that. It's one of biggest advantages this nation has. If it becomes captive to government and handmaiden to the surveillance state, that would be an economic and cultural crime of monstrous proportions. - Jay Rosen Google has been redoubling its efforts to thwart NSA snooping, though its not clear whether those efforts include new ways to thwart MITM [man-in-the-middle] attacks. The company responded to detailed questions from Mother Jones with a short statement: "As for recent reports that the US government has found ways to circumvent our security systems, we have no evidence of any such thing ever occurring," said spokesman Jay Nancarrow. "We provide our user data to governments only in accordance with the law." - Josh Harkinson reporting The NSA?s next move: Silencing University professors? Jay Rosen theguardian.com UK September 10, 2013 On September 9, Johns Hopkins University asked one of its professors to take down a blog post on the NSA. Photo: AP. Visit this page for its embedded links. This actually happened yesterday: A professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins, a leading American University, had written a post on his blog, hosted on the University's servers, focused on his area of expertise, which is cryptography. The post was highly critical of the government, specifically the National Security Agency, whose rec ...

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