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NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders 310

Posted by Soulskill from the days-since-NSA-diplomatic-incident:-0 dept.
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "The Guardian reports that the NSA monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after being given the numbers by an official in another U.S. government department. According to a classified document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA encourages senior officials in its 'customer' departments, such the White House, State and the Pentagon, to share their 'Rolodexes' so the agency can add the phone numbers of leading foreign politicians to their surveillance systems. The NSA memo dated October 2006 that was obtained by the Guardian suggests that such surveillance was not isolated, as the agency routinely monitors the phone numbers of world leaders – and even asks for the assistance of other U.S. officials to do so. However, the memo acknowledges that eavesdropping on the numbers had produced 'little reportable intelligence.' At the daily briefing on Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney again refused to answer repeated questions about whether the U.S. had spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's calls in the past."
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NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President 242

Posted by timothy from the because-why-not dept.
rtoz writes "The National Security Agency (NSA ) of United States hacked into the Mexican president's public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system. The news is likely to hurt ties between the US and Mexico. This operation, dubbed 'Flatliquid,' is described in a document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Meanwhile U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up the first case it has received on controversial National Security Agency cybersnooping."

Comment Re:Crappy players (Score 1) 99

by Psicopatico (#44592109) Attached to: Amarok 2.8 "Return To the Origin" Released
+1 for QMMP.
While it's still a < 1.0 release, it gets the job done (it plays :p ).
Also, there are a fair amount of skins for it, as it accepts skins for Audacity or XMMS.
At the moment I use one which replicates exactly the good old WinAmp 1.0. Hell, it even has the WinAmp name on each window... For the curious, here it is

Comment Oblig. (Score 4, Funny) 161

by Psicopatico (#43125733) Attached to: If Video Games Make People Violent, So Do Pictures of Snakes
"If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
(Kristian Wilson - Creator of Pac-Man - 1989)

[I know this quote is a comedina joke and not an original one, but whatever it expresses exactly my tougths on the subject.]

Comment Re:Precedent? (Score 1) 168

Yes and no.

While Italian judiciary system is generally considered as civil law, in reality it is mixed.
There are three levels of judice:
- ordinary;
- appeal;
- court of cassation (a.k.a. supreme court).

After the second level of judice, sentences create precedent and make laws.
But the supreme court only evaluates if previous courts correctly followed the procedures/laws, it doesn't go deep on the facts of the trial.

For other EU countries, I don't know :)

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