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Last year lawmakers attempted to pass the CISA act, however due to a major backlash from the public and major organizations including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter and dozens more it failed to pass. This year lawmakers hid the CISA act inside the budget bill and as of today the bill has passed congress and it is expected to be passed into law by the president later today. If the president chooses to veto the bill it will essentially lead to a government shutdown. The problem with CISA is that is creates a backdoor for wiretaps. It allows "for government agencies to more easily keep tabs on Americans without their knowledge." That was CISA of 2014, CISA of 2015 is even worse than last year. Many provisions have been stripped out. This Years act: Lawmakers finally found a way to get CISA passed into law. By putting it into a budget bill they are forcing the president to sign it into law. Not doing so would cause a government shutdown and would withhold an astonishing 19.3 Billion dollars from NASA. It is astounding the lengths that lawmakers will go to to get what they want. Update: The budget bill was signed by Obama on Friday afternoon. This includes the approval of the CISA act. Sources theVerge engadget Wired

amazon also has the 500gb for $140

Snowden has done it again. Documents revealed by snowden show a UK spy program, codenamed "Karma Police", with a goal to track the browsing habits of "every visible user on the internet". The program taps into intercontinental data cables. Of the roughly 1600 cables in and near the UK they were able to "“survey the majority of the 1,600” and “select the most valuable to switch into [their] processing systems.”"-theintercept This method alone has given them access to as much as 25% of the world's internet traffic since 2009. The program gathers 50 billion pieces of metadata per day with a goal of 100 billion by the end of the year. It catalogs the user's visits to websites such as porn, social media and news websites, search engines, chat forums, and blogs. To do so it uses the user's ip address and other information such as emails, usernames, passwords, and cookies. "In the documents, GCHQ analysts called cookies "presence events" and "target detection identifiers" and lauded their value in uncovering specific Internet users' identities. They can be used to analyze "pattern of life"—when a person is usually online and where they connect to the Internet from. Some of the sites targeted specifically for covert cookie collection include Facebook, Microsoft Live, Amazon, YouTube, Reddit, WordPress, Yahoo, Google, the YouPorn adult video site, and news sites such as Reuters, CNN, and the BBC."-arstechnica. All collected data is sent into the "The Black Hole" where it awaits processing. Between 2007 and 2009 the black hole stored as much as 1.1 trillion pieces of metadata. The worst part is that unlike the NSA which is required to get FISA court approval for using metadata, the GCHQ program has almost no oversite and a loophole in the law means that they have free reign on how they want to use the metadata. The GCHQ has used this system to gather data and then coordinate directed attacks. One such example was the SIM card manufacturer Gemalto. They used the gathered passwords to compromise the accounts of employees and they stole encryption keys in bulk from the company. Sources: theverge theintercept arstechnica

this deal is still good i think? http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMSUNG-850-EVO-MZ-75E500B-AM-2-5-500GB-SATA-III-3-D-Vertical-Internal-Solid-St/301442365826?rmvSB=true

This is a good deal. As for the no ebay rule, it's meant to stop people from linking to their own used items on ebay. It's fine when the seller is a major company like Newegg.

It's on ebay, but being sold by newegg. It's $120 with free shipping in the US. Really good price for a 5TB drive, I wish it was around when i was buying my drive. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Seagate-Expansion-5TB-USB-3-0-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive-STBV5000100/301380766274

Must have only been until midnight

This is a pretty decent deal for anyone building a PC. At $150, you get a 250GB 850 evo SSD for the OS and a 3TB Toshiba 7200RPM drive for storage. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.2305803 For comparison: 120 GB 850 evo is $80 on newegg and $75 on Amazon. Cheapest 3TB drive(non refurbished) is $90 on newegg.

Its not about paying for HBO, even if you pay there is no way to watch it yet(HBO hasn't released them), although it brings up an interesting point. If you have paid and you will watch them in a few weeks, is it steeling to watch them now?

The first two episodes of Game of thrones season 5 have been leaked online. The torrent is quickly rising in popularity and based on last seasons statistics and the fact that the second episode wont be available until a week from tomorrow, these torrents may break some records. There are rumors that a 3rd episodes has been or will be released soon and possibly even a fourth, although for now these are just rumors. I think if HBO wants to reduce the number of pirated copies they need to release the leaked episodes on online platforms like HBO NOW and give fans a chance to legally watch them, otherwise i have a feeling many people will not hesitate to download them. If you are one of those people, just keep in mind that if not all the episodes are leaked you will have to wait several weeks before you can see the next episode. [update] Episode 3 has been released. 4th episode is also out according to a Reddit post, although i have not seen any torrents of it. source Some people are saying there may be more episodes coming. (not sure why this was marked out by a mod? I mentioned looking for a torrent which is the only way to check if it has been released since the news is so new. If its the link, the link is to a Reddit post with no copyright material) Update 2: A total of 4 episodes have been released. Each episode has been downloaded over 100 thousand times on various torrent sites and torrent freak expects that number to rise to several million by the end of today. Multiple news articles have now picked up the story and HBO has released a statement: If you would like to read more about the leak. Here are several places that have since picked up the story: theVerge, torrentfreak, deadline, DailyMail