* Reuters poll finds most respondents are OK with the NSA's domestic spying tactics. * Friedersdorf: History shows that if we stop opposing a surveillance state, we'll live in one. * How Google uses secure FTP to provide user information—indirectly—to PRISM. * A web dump of everything about
* Assertive extremists have joined the rebel ranks in Syria, trapping many Syrians in a vise. * Blair: There is a problem within Islam, and we have to put it on the table and be honest about it. * Video footage shows the formation of a gigantic rotating supercell. * Heatmap of the areas
* In China, a man-on-the-street take on the NSA leak: "If you're not monitoring people, they can say whatever they want." * Why Snowden shouldn't have gone to Hong Kong: Unlike China, it has an extradition arrangement with the U.S. * Toobin: Snowden
* It's too early to lionize Snowden. * He's in a better position than if he had committed murder, but [the legal strategy] is not necessarily a winner for him. * Tenants ousted from East Village building can purchase apartments for $10 in the high-rise that will take
* All about Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who expects never to see his $200K salary or house in Hawaii ever again. * An embattled British TV host took the photo used in the PRISM logo. * Andy Baio finds examples of all the ways state and federal government overuse the "PRISM&
* Anonymous leaks NSA documents, including Defense Dept.'s plan for "controlling the internet." * Today's jobs report contains mixed messages—a hint at the harm being done by sequestration. * Archaeologists unearth an escape tunnel at the Sobibor death camp in Poland. * A theory of airport security:
* NYT on Obama's terrorism justification: "The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue." * This is the second story in the past twenty-four hours with deeply troubling constitutional and privacy implications. * What's PalTalk? Since at least 2009, it's been the
* White House defends phone snooping as "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats." * Tumblr of the Day: "Laid Off From the Sun-Times." * Boston Marathon spectators file lawsuit against New York Post for portraying them as bombing suspects. * A new study shows that
* Right now, the NSA is monitoring phone records of Verizon customers—"regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing." * After using the world of tomorrow to keep Americans hopeful during WWII, government and industry found ways to dash those dreams. * Researchers successfully guide a thought-controlled helicopter
* Michelle Obama—unlike her husband—doesn't suffer hecklers kindly. * Social media is essential to contemporary civil unrest—in Turkey, Vine is the medium of choice. * According to a new poll, most black Americans feel that, over the past decade, their lives have improved. * Only two million of the
