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Secret ‘BADASS’ Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones – The Intercept

While the BADASS program is specifically designed to target smartphone traffic, websites suffer from these exact same problems, and in many cases they’re even worse.

Websites routinely include bits of tracking code from several different companies for ads, analytics, and other behavioral tracking. This, combined with the lack of HTTPS, turns your web browser into a surveillance device that follows you around, even if you switch networks or use proxy servers.

Tracking sites, how to opt out.

For apple iPhones you will need your UDID.  (more info)

On the evening of January 11, 2013, Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment by his partner, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman.  Hard to believe it has been 2 years since his departure. Arron Swartz day is celebrated every year on his birthday November 8th.

Why They Mattered: Aaron Swartz

The inside story of Aaron Swartz

James Wright “Jim” Foley (October 18, 1973 – c. August 19, 2014) was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria. He was beheaded in August 2014 as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq, thus becoming the first American citizen killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, IS).