Month: February 2015
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The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’
[The Guardian:][link] >The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. A whole lot more at [the link][link]. Accusations include holding minors (as young as 15 years old) without council…
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The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think
[From the author of The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs][link]: >The advert explains: “Only one drug is so addictive, nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it. And use it. And use it. Until dead. It’s called cocaine. And it can do the same thing to you.” > >But in…
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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke
[Filed under Welcome To 2015][link]: >”I’m too idealistic,” he told me in an interview at a hacker convention in Germany in December. “In early 2013 I was really about to give it all up and take a straight job.” But then the Snowden news broke, and “I realized this was not the time to cancel.”…