Government Stories for 2013

The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech 96
No Question: Snowden Was 2013's Most Influential Tech Figure 108
Feds Announce Test Sites For Drone Aircraft 78
Unintended Consequences: How NSA Revelations May Lead To Even More Surveillance 207
Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules? 189
Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog 259
France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook 314
Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy 579
Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps 60
US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs 73
60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out 944
Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies 236
Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers 64
Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai) 107
Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished 312
Alan Turing Pardoned 415
RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money 291
FBI's Secret Interrogation Manual: Now At the Library of Congress 102
Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts 62
Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin 202
Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows 199
Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club 37
DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years 183
Putting a Panic Button In Smartphone Users' Hands 175
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
NSA Metadata Collection Program Has Stopped Zero Attacks 199
DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security 174
UN Votes To Protect Privacy In Digital Age 124
US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil 439
Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire 691
UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn 227
Panel Urges Major NSA Spying Overhaul 242
The FBI's Giant Bitcoin Wallet 177
Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars 238
Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests 562
Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA 312
Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov 214
Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time 348
NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware 698
FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps 160
Norway Rejects Bitcoin As Currency; Taxes As Asset, Instead 245
US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month 1146
France Broadens Surveillance Powers; Wider Scope Than NSA 169
NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove 383
Boston Police Stop Scanning Registration Plates, For Now 110
Why the NSA Piggybacks On Consumer Tracking 62
Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes 513
Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded 122
Indian Government Lifts Nokia's Asset Freeze, Factory Can Transfer To Microsoft 53
Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' 275
Estonia Sharing Its Finnish-Made E-Government Solution With Finland 83
Soviet Union Spent $1 Billion On "Psychotronic" Arms Race With the US 230
A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? 288
Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery 226
Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T 291
California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website 252
Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement 192
NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking 174
Open Source 'Wasn't Available' Two Years Ago, Says UK Gov't IT Project Chief 113
British Police Censor the Global Internet 228
3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate 414
US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors 425
Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments 1251
US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry 466
Insight On FBI Hacking Ops 137
About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors 157
FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App 187
Patent Troll Bill Clears House With Huge Majority 138
Microsoft's NSA 'Transparency' Push Remains Pretty Opaque 90
NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide 256
China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions 110
FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic 365
Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So 462
Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring 376
App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music 392
Australian Defense Scientists Plagiarizing Trade Secrets 60
Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio 214
How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? 275
Australian Spy Agency Offered To Share Data About Ordinary Citizens 78
Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes 293
White House Calls On Kids To Film High-Tech Education 95
Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well 644
The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? 582
Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums 162
FOIA: NSA Contracts Stored In Paper Files, Unsearchable, Unindexed 114
UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs 208
Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes 537
Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache 381
Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font 312
Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad 961
Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' 236
Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality 494
Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries 730
Singapore & South Korea Help NSA Tap Undersea Cables 137
NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice 334
NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating 284
Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) 276
Researcher Offers New Perspective On Stuxnet-Wielding Sabotage Program 46
Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying 239
Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood 783
Chinese Gov't To Tighten Internet Controls Even Further 162
Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns 550
Australia Spied On Indonesian President 213
NJ Gamblers May Be Locked Out By Flaws In Virtual Fence 88
Time For a Warrant Canary Metatag? 332
How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure 153
Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company 227
Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value 95
Can the US Be Weaned Off Ethanol? 330
FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous 156
Object Lessons: Evan Booth's Post-Checkpoint Airport Weapons 208
FCC App Lets Android Users Measure Mobile Broadband Speed 93
How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy 330
ATF Tests Show 3D Printed Guns Can Explode 233
Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' 228
Could Slashdot (Or Other Private Entity) Sue a Spy Agency Like GCHQ Or NSA? 188
US Gov't Circulates Watch List of Buyers of Polygraph Training Materials 303
Italy Investigates Apple For Alleged Tax Fraud 175
US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software 178
Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services 222
Pentagon Readies Contingency Plans Due To BlackBerry's Uncertain Future 44
Facebook Patented Making NSA Data Handoffs Easier 137
Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! 702
How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov 499
US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon 258
How Silicon Valley Helped the NSA 163
GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware 335
OSHA Wants To Post All Workplace Injury Reports Online 100
The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks 388
Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents 276
"War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov 346
Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster 190
Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other 336
US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat 520
Healthcare.gov Official Resigns, Website Still a Disaster 559
Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency 382
Apple Issues First Transparency Report 93
Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance 239
Report Claims a Third of FOIA Requests To the NYPD Go Unanswered 65
Swiss Government Backs Privacy Oriented ISP 109
TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint 603
Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden 504
Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures 465
Mobile Devices Banned From UK Cabinet Meetings Over Surveillance Fears 116
Shutdown Illustrates How Fast US Gov't Can Update Its Websites 77
Amazon Botches Sales Tax, Overcharges NJ 179
Dutch MEP Petitions To Ban Export of Surveillance Software 81
EU Considering Sensors In Sewers To Detect Bomb-Makers 219
HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? 400
GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance 145
A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones 545
Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds 206
Why Amazon Fights State Sales Tax, But Supports It Nationally 165
Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign 207
Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov 404
FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights 221
Pen Testers Break Into Gov't Agency With Fake Social Media ID 109
State Technology Taxes Face Stiff Resistance 167
NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters 394
Cable Lobbyist Tom Wheeler Confirmed As New FCC Chief 242
Infosys Fined $35M For Illegally Bringing Programmers Into US On Visitor Visas 201
The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist 254
UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations 431
Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? 786
German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 280
FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust 162
UK Telcos Went Above and Beyond To Cooperate With GCHQ 88
EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US 170
Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov 250
Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid 622
NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders 310
Knight Capital Fined $12M For a Software Bug That Cost $460M 192
Google Leads Among Consumer Tech Companies Lobbying Congress 65
Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone 267
White House Official Tracked Down and Fired Over Insulting Tweets 208
Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules 470
TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport 437
CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA 361
DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues 429
Open Rights Group International Says Virgin, Sky Blocking Innocent Sites 83
How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! 307
How You Too Can Be Shut Down By the Feds For Flying Drones 195
NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President 242
The Cost of the US Government Shutdown To Science 355
Huawei Using NSA Scandal To Turn Tables On Accusations of Spying 183
Report: Fisker Automotive Sold To Hong Kong Billionaire Richard Li 35
British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care 634
Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown 282
NSA Director Keith Alexander Is Reportedly Stepping Down 92
US Government Shutdown Ends 999
Uneven Enforcement Suspected At Nuclear Plants 93
Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant 183
Irish Government May Close Apple's Biggest Tax Loophole 292
Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior 394
The NSA Is Collecting Lots of Spam 159
Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes 299
Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy" 365
Support For NASA Spending Depends On Perception of Size of Space Agency Budget 205
Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying 165
Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Weeks Or Two Months 382
Xerox "Routine Backup Test" Leave 17 States Without Food Stamps 305
Could Snowden Have Been Stopped In 2009? 247
Patriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Limit Use of Patriot Act 189
CPJ Report: the Obama Administration and Press Freedoms 289
Inside the Guardian and the Snowden Leaks 239
Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far 497
Guardian Ignores MI5 Warnings, Vows To 'Publish More Snowden Leaks' 301
90% of Nuclear Regulators Sent Home Due To Shutdown 358
New High Tech $100 Bills Start To Circulate Today 302
How Entrepreneurs Overturned California's Retroactive Tax On Startup Founders 105
Since Snowden Leaks, NSA's FOIA Requests Are Up 1,000 Percent 47
Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own 330
Chemical Experts Begin Destroying Syria's Chemical Arsenal 86
Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? 1144
Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules 278
US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts To Break Tor 411
Taking Back Control of Your Data, With Fine Grained, Explicit Permissions 55
'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' 362
China's Web Surveillance System Employs More Than 2 Million 63
Are Shuttered Gov't Sites Actually Saving Money? 668
HHS-Run Website Hacked To Hawk Boots, Perfumes, and NFL Jerseys 43
Another Science Facility Bites the Dust, Temporarily 193
Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 On Monday, Layoffs Also Kicking In 341
How The NSA Targets Tor 234
India's Billion User Biometric Odyssey 81
Shots Fired At US Capitol 608
Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys 527
California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' 528
Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown 286
Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites 565
U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders 330
Microsoft Azure Platform Certified "Secure" By Department of Defense 90
Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations 168
U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed 1532
Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries 408
Snowden Strikes Again: NSA Mapping Social Connections of US Citizens 513
Microsoft: We Offer Up User Data To Law Enforcement 2 Percent of the Time 54
Did NIST Cripple SHA-3? 169
Declassified NSA Docs Shed Light On Cold War (And Modern) Operations 83
Protesters Are Dodging Sudan's Internet Shutdown With a Phone-Powered Crowdmap 7
Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch 326
No Upper Bound On Phone Record Collection, Says NSA 238
President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN 260
FDA Will Regulate Some Apps As Medical Devices 130
The Internet Society is Unhappy with U.S. Govt's Internet Spying Tactics 107
China Lifts Bans On Social Media, Foreign ISPs In Free Trade Zone 55
California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum 356
France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU 103
Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Leaking Secrets to the Associated Press 178
FAA May Let You Use Electronic Devices During Airplane Takeoff and Landing Soon 166

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