Tornado Alley (PROG)

[migo]

has anyone been following the CCC (3oC3) Chaos Communication Congress conference in Germany?
This is a pretty definitive conference with speakers discussing the Snowden revelations about the NSA capabilities to an audience of "hackers" sys admins.
to my mind it is worthy of spending some time listening to the various presentations by the speakers about the Manning trial, the various exploits by NSA to hack all electronic communications (WORLDWIDE) for total information awareness and control.
instead of accepting the predigested and acceptable bumper sticker slogans about national security and our privacy, listen to the cases made by people who have been involved in keeping the internet free for a long time and judge for yourself
here is the source I found a lot of the conference videos on:

http://leaksource.wordpress.com