thomas

TIL that Mark Klein passed away last month.

Mark was the whistleblower who in 2006 revealed the NSA’s dragnet operations at AT&T’s nationwide backbone facilities that warrantlessly siphon all data traffic regardless of origin and destination for surveillance purposes.

The program was secretly authorized as a direct result of the 2001 Patriot Act, itself enacted a month after the 9/11 attacks.

A lawsuit filed against AT&T by the EFF after Mark’s revelations was dismissed after a retroactive law was enacted that gave immunity to all telco operators involved.

A quarter century later, the program has only expanded and is now fully normalized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

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Plastic surgeon who specializes in giving people  the face that fast tracks you to management when they put your picture in the AI physiognomy analyzer

Plastic surgeon who specializes in giving people  the face that fast tracks you to management when they put your picture in the AI physiognomy analyzer 

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5089827

Law & Policy

Does anyone know how a phishing hack would be treated for crypto-tax purposes?

I saw an article saying you cannot treat it as a tax-loss, then another article immediately contradicting it, saying you could?

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