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    Freedom or Security

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    security is neither free‚ nor secure. If you really think about it‚ this quote makes you think “are we really safe in this country?” All the attacks we have witness or suffered‚ have we reached the point where we should sacrifice our FREEDOM? With the patriot act‚ torturing‚ drones flying around‚ and just having our civil liberties taken away it seems like our freedom is already gone just so we can have “security.” You shouldn’t have to sacrifice your freedom for anything! In the article “Is there a drone

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    Sentinels of Corruption A poll taken five years after the tragedy of 9/11 shows that forty-six percent of American citizens do not feel safe in their own country (“Poll: Many Americans Feel Less Safe”). In a nation‚ people need to feel safe from both foreign and domestic threats. Citizens from both Oceania and America do not feel this safety because of Party and Government surveillance‚ intimidation‚ and corruption. In 1984‚ there is a heavy emphasis on surveillance and how it affects the citizens

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    cell phone and computers makes this situation worse. Americans resent the government taking away their right to privacy in order to find terrorists. But‚ terrorists have found United States citizens‚ born in the USA‚ to help them commit terrorist acts and the NSA is wasting time and effort searching into American people while they are allowing real threats happen. The National Security Agency running such investigations on American citizens is in violation of the Fourth Amendment

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    The history of surveillance started with the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights in 1791. In 1919‚ the US Department of State approved the creation of the Cipher Bureau which was also known as “Black Chamber. The Cipher Bureau was the precursor to the NSA and it was the first peacetime federal intelligence agency in the US. In 1945. Project SHAMROCK was a large scale spying operation that was designed to get telegraphic data going in and out of the United States. It was terminated in 1975 when

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    upon but entirely legal. Someone advocating for Al Qaida will not make many friends but they can say what they want. Question 11: Evaluate the criticism leveled against the USA PATRIOT Act that the sections quoted in the text unconstitutionally deprive individuals of their civil liberties by such vague terms as “acts intended to influence

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    constitutional law. 4. Which law amended the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986‚ and what did it change? The National Information Infrastructure Protection of 1996 amended the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. It modified several sections of the CFA Act‚ and increased the penalties for selected crime. 5. Which law was specifically created to deal with encryption policy in the United States? The Security and Freedom through Encryption Act of 1999. 6. What is privacy in an information security context

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    Prostitution I. Exploitation J. Illegal entry into the US K. Terrorism L. Sedition M. Delirium tremens N. USA Patriot Act O. Unlawful assembly P. Confiscation Q. Habeas corpus | | | | R. | 2. | a | Specific‚ purposeful‚ and unlawful behavior that causes public inconvenience‚ annoyance‚ or alarm | | | | | | 3. | d | An overt act that is an attempt to overthrow the government | | | | | | 4. | f | Deliberate conduct calculated to obstruct

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    York City. America reacted quickly and concisely by creating the Dept. of Homeland defense. Various laws were created as well‚ most well known is the USA Patriot Act of 2001 which gave authorities vastly more powers in certain aspects deemed useful for combating terrorism. Created later on‚ but directly linked to 9/11 was the FISA Amendments act of 2008 which: “allowed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international electronic communications

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    Topic: The Counterintelligence Program also known as COINTELPRO Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the Counterintelligence Program‚ (COINTELPRO). Thesis Statement: First‚ I will discuss the history of COINTELPRO; then I will discuss the methods of COINTELPRO; and finally‚ I will discuss COINTELPRO today. Introduction: I. Let me ask you this‚ have you ever had a feeling that someone is watching you? Have you ever been by yourself yet you don’t quite feel like you are alone? Well

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    Driving down the highway around 2:00 a.m. seemed like the only way to get home to see his family by the morning‚ but in the blink of an eye he was no longer on his way to the house. As he lay dying in the back of the ambulance‚ someone made the phone call to his wife. In that thirty second phone call‚ her value of sleep was soon replaced by her unending love for her husband. One value was weakened and the other strengthened. Values are consistently changing and reorganizing. Just as the wife’s value

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