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It’s extraordinary that free governments are demanding that security be weakened because the government might want to have access. This is the kind of thing we see out of Russia and China and Syria.

Bruce Schneier, leading security technologist. Schneier spoke to Democracy Now! about FBI and GCHQ efforts to secure access to encrypted communications to track criminals and terrorists. Watch the discussion at democracynow.org.

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GCHQ has really acquired a huge amount of information that will make bulk surveillance of telephone communications very, very easy.

Chris Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, joins Democracy Now! to discuss a new report by The Intercept on how the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, hacked into the network of the world’s largest SIM card manufacturer to steal encryption keys that protect the privacy of cellphone users. Watch the interview here.

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Any journalist in the United States should be concerned about the precedent that the Barrett Brown case sets for people who share information, report on hacking, or those who use hackers as sources.

Kevin Gallagher, a writer and activist who heads the Free Barrett Brown support network talks to Democracy Now! about the five-year prison term given to journalist and activist Barrett Brown.

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This is not a matter of freedom of speech. Seth Rogen and his pals at Sony are the lowest of the low of U.S. propaganda on North Korea.

Tim Shorrock, investigative journalist covering U.S.-Korea relations, on the decision by Sony Pictures to indefinitely postpone the release of the comedy “The Interview” over threats against theaters and a hack of Sony corporate data. Watch his take on Democracy Now! today.

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