The part about a system of computer networks that protect dissidents, journalists, NGO's, faith groups, freedom seekers and other color revolution efforts could be open to law enforcement officials at a funding and skill well below an intelligence agency level.
If the anonymity and privacy on offer by onion routing for dissidents, journalists, NGO is trackable on domestic local enforcement budget then what are other well funded nations doing on their internal telco networks?
If the US at a police level can track all users on onion routing other what kinds of lists do other nations have or what have their domestic intelligence agencies found?
Public news like this sheds light on the low costs and ability to track onion routing. Down from intelligence agency to a state or city?

1+ for easily and percisely tag almost all photos we were able to stuff in it. In microseconds.
This tech is old for the 2d face work. Its fast for local police Privacy concerns? UK police test 'faster-than-ever' facial recognition software http://rt.com/uk/173292-facial... (July 16, 2014)
Or just read the public info on records per second in the 10,000 records/sec http://www.nec.com/en/global/r...

How is open code everybody can see, work on, understand and create with "a different monoculture?"
The past closed proprietary DHTML features?

+1 for this great suggestion. A good audio codec, video codec, encryption and emoticons. Clean new open code that works as a new instant messaging app :)

Re "It's a mail reader. That is all it needs to be."
Crypto GUI with the signing and encrypting.

From: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firef...
"50% of Fx users on Windows run 64 bit OS. We've reached a threshold where the effort makes sense."
Work on the webcam side now that HTML5 video is supported.

Re How in hell the voters from Britain as well as from America allow such things to happen in the first place??
Addiction. For the UK it goes back to the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with the
"To prevent persons communicating with the enemy or obtaining information for that purpose..."
During and after ww1 the constant flow of new information became totally addictive to generations of UK governments. New laws to ensure funding continued.
Tempora is just this decades reflection of generations of networking and communications efforts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Another reason was the US and UK had got the German OKW-Chi work on from the Target Intelligence Committee teams (TICOM) on the Russian Fish system.
A Soviet military teleprinter that used packet switching was then open to the US and UK in 1945 thanks to German efforts during ww2.
Later efforts by German teams in the UK helped with the Caviar project but only got Soviet administration messages.
All that German material given to the UK in 1945 by the Germans was still been sorted by the UK into the early 1950's.
Russia has its own systems and was under constant decryption efforts by Germany in ww2 and then UK and German staff after ww2.
The same methods just kept on giving the US and UK what they needed for years and they where not going to tell the world about how easy it was or the ww2 german staff that where helping in mid 1945.
Think of it as a Operation Paperclip for ww2 German intelligence assets that kept on working in 1945 :)

In the early 1940's yes. By the 1950's the UK had an entire new generation of skilled people working on jet, nuclear and electronic brain projects. The GCHQ had moved onto helping the US with its difficult Korean war issues. By the 1950's Turing's role in ww2 and his 1950's travel was seen a huge security risk.
Any documents and hardware from the 1940's was also seen as a security risk. Why tell the world how the UK had won ww2 by reading German Red, Tunny material in realtime? Its a good trick that the UK could keep working with Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Re China and the risks of intelligence, bugging and manipulation?
"remove high-end servers" and "replace them with a local brand" :) (05/27/2014)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

AC amendments are not self signed letters from officials with dreams about changing circumstances.

AC: A self signed letter from an official due to some imagined totality of circumstances does not remove the US protections regarding unreasonable search and seizure.
The US Constitution is not some living document an official can alter with some new view of what is legal reasonableness.

The people who had the letter shown to them and their legal team would be put under more extra special top secret surveillance.
All members of the US press who showed any interest in the case, legal team or letter would be under more surveillance.
Any member of the public who linked, hosted or commented on the story would be under surveillance.
ie everybody would then share in the sealed secret court fun of that original NSL. RICO Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act like :)