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1st Amendment groups call for probe of Huntsville school social media policy

Posted: September 30, 2014 at 1:47 am

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -

Two national First Amendment rights groups are calling for a Congressional investigation into possible National Security Agency involvement in Huntsville City Schools.

Last week, the district alerted the public about the SAFE program, or Students Against Fear. They launched SAFE at the beginning of the calendar year. District leaders said they've punished nearly two dozen students since the program's inception. That includes one student Superintendent Dr. Casey Wardynski said the government contacted them about.

An NSA spokesperson told us they are not the government agency that called the district.

Both the Electronic Frontier Foundation out of San Francisco, and the Student Press Law Center out of Washington, D.C. are following this developing story.

The involvement of the NSA, or the reported involvement of the NSA, is what makes this a national story, said Frank LoMonte, executive director of the SPLC.

Both groups said they want Congress to help get to the bottom of who contacted Huntsville City Schools. LoMonte said if any part of this story is true, it's a big deal because it brings in possible government domestic spying questions.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling for a congressional committee to step in. They want something similar to the Church Commission that looked into government intelligence gathering in the 1970's. In a statement, the group said:

Whether the NSA is behind the school district's program or not, this episode illustrates how far the public's perception has come regarding privacy and mass surveillance. We've longed called for a new "Church Commission" to investigate all aspects of domestic surveillance by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Such an investigation could get to the bottom of the Huntsville controversy. Opacity fuels distrust.

Congressman Mo Brooks is downplaying Congress getting involved.

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Tor Executive Director Hints At Firefox Integration

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65047513 story Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 29, 2014 @07:34PM from the foxes-love-onions dept. blottsie writes: Several major tech firms are in talks with Tor to include the software in products that can potentially reach over 500 million Internet users around the world. One particular firm wants to include Tor as a "private browsing mode" in a mainstream Web browser, allowing users to easily toggle connectivity to the Tor anonymity network on and off. "They very much like Tor Browser and would like to ship it to their customer base," Tor executive director Andrew Lewman wrote, explaining the discussions but declining to name the specific company. "Their product is 10-20 percent of the global market, this is of roughly 2.8 billion global Internet users." The product that best fits Lewman's description, by our estimation, is Mozilla Firefox, the third-most popular Web browser online today and home to, you guessed it, 10 to 20 percent of global Internet users. You may like to read: Post

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Dreaming of a Tor Button for Firefox

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It's no secret that everybody's thinking about privacy and cyber security more since the world was pummeled with the unsettling, spy-novel truths of the Snowden revelations. Now, companies are starting to seize onto the zeitgeist by building more secure tools for the internet. And it sounds like Tor will be at the front of that line.

The Tor anonymity network is in talks with "several major tech companies" about integrating its technology into their software, according to the Daily Dot. One of those companies, the Daily Dot's Patrick Howell O'Neill, is Firefox, and that integration might come in the form of a Tor button that would enable anonymous browsing for hundreds of millions of people. Again, it's unclear if this major tech company is indeed Firefox, but Tor executive director Andrew Lewman offered some hints.

"They very much like Tor Browser and would like to ship it to their customer base," said Lewman. "Their product is 10-20 percent of the global market, this is of roughly 2.8 billion global Internet users." Lewman added, "[The tech companies are] willing to entertain offering their resources to help us solve the scalability challenges of handling hundreds of millions of users and relays on Tor."

This sounds like a great idea! Indeed, Firefox does have between 10 and 20 percent of the global browser market, and Mozilla, the nonprofit that builds the open source browser, is certainly interested in issues like privacy and security. Last year, Mozilla launched Lightbeam as an add-on that helps users visualize who's collecting data from them. A similar add-on that offers increased privacy or even total anonymity makes perfect sense. The Daily Dot calls it an "easy Tor button." We call it genius.

But even if it's not Firefox, it would be a smart move for any browser to take advantage of Tor's anonymity network. Easy integration into a popular browser would not only offer better privacy for millions; it would also encourage more people to think about cyber security. We already saw this earlier this year, when Apple announced that it would integrate DuckDuckGo, the anonymous search engine, into Safari for iOS 8. This is in addition to new, improved encryption in iOS 8.

If anything, turning Tor into a mainstream resource means that everybody enjoys better security. The Tor network works like a daisy chain that puts distance between the user and their destination, so that hackers or spies can't trace who's doing what on the internet. The longer that daisy chain gets, the harder it is to identify the person on the other end. Although as we learned a few months ago, it's not impossible to identify Tor users. Still, it's much harder.

So regardless of who's doing it, you should be excited by the idea of more Tor integration. It's a boon for your privacy and good for cyber security. And hopefully, it's just around the corner. [Daily Dot]

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Bitcoin Filter Episode 22: "BITCOIN BRINGS UP CHALLENGES" – Video

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