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The NSA’s business is ‘information dominance,’ the use of other people’s secrets to shape events.

Barton Gellman

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
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Country Notable Problem
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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Geek Government Together
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form.
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Army Nerves Skins
The NSA’s business is ‘information dominance,’ the use of other people’s secrets to shape events.
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Business Information People Secret
Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don’t want your employer to know you’re job hunting. You don’t spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don’t tell trade secrets to your rivals.
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Job Love Life Mom
Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
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Cures Hard Misunderstanding
When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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New York Surveillance Voice
Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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Agent Like Minute Otherwise Nerve Respiratory
Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.
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Back Country People Person Tremendous

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