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Intel Chairman Sees Snowden Supporting Russia’s Crimea Seizure

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By Tom Curry

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said Sunday former National Security Agency contractor and fugitive Edward Snowden is actually supporting in an odd way this very activity of brazen brutality and expansionism of Russia. He needs to understand that. And I think Americans need to understand that.

Rogers, a Michigan Republican, spoke as Russian forces were poised on the border of Ukraine, with Russia having already annexed the Crimea region.

Snowden has revealed details of the NSAs surveillance programs since leaving the United States last May. He eventually ended up in Moscow where President Vladimir Putins government has granted him asylum.

Rogers said on NBCs Meet the Press that Snowden is under the influence of Russian intelligence services today. For the investigators, they need to figure out: When did that influence start? And was he interested in cooperating (with Russian intelligence agencies) earlier than the timeline would suggest?

Federal prosecutors have charged Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and communication of classified information to an unauthorized person.

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First published March 23 2014, 7:20 AM

Tom Curry is a National Affairs writer for NBCNews.com. He began reporting on politics and public policy for NBCNews.com in June 1996, when the site was msnbc.com.

Before joining msnbc.com, Curry worked as a reporter/researcher for Time magazine where he reported on politics, business, social trends, and golf.

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NSA leaker singles out Amazon on encryption

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While Edward Snowdens revelations about domestic spying by the National Security Agency have embarrassed several large tech companies, including Microsoft and Google, for enabling government snooping, one tech giant that avoided Snowdens spotlight was Amazon.

Until Tuesday, that is. At the intellectual gabfest, TED 2014, in Vancouver, B.C., Snowden criticized the lack of encryption on the websites of many U.S. Internet companies.

The reason this matters is today, if you go to look at a copy of 1984 on Amazon.com, the NSA can see a record of that, the Russian intelligence service can see a record of that, the Chinese service can see a record of that, the French service, the German service, the services of Andorra, Snowden said, speaking remotely from Russia. They can all see it because its unencrypted.

Like many Internet companies, Amazon doesnt use HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure, an encryption technology that keeps users communications, identities and web browsing private on its site when shoppers initially look though items. (Web surfers know its in use when the address for the site they are visiting begins with https.)

Amazon does, however, encrypt personal account Web pages, as well as pages where customers buy merchandise.

Snowden said he didnt mean to single out Amazon, but then proceeded to do so.

The worlds library is Amazon.com, but not only do they not support encryption by default, you cannot choose to use encryption when browsing through books, Snowden said. All companies need to move to an encrypted browsing habit by default for all users who havent taken any action or picked any special methods on their own. Thatll increase the privacy and the rights that people enjoy worldwide.

An Amazon spokesman declined to comment.

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What is open source? – Definition from WhatIs.com

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1) In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available.

2) Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI's Open Source Definition. To summarize, the Definition model of distribution terms require that:

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