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This week's program brings another retransmission from the Voice of America where the continuing cyber-snooping situation is discussed. Stephen tells a tale of how communications metadata can be used in a benign but contemporary way. A news miscellany is also presented.

Related links:

• VOA Voice of America: Issues in the News
• Monitoring Times/Shortwave Central: WYFR to close all shortwave services
• The News-Gazette: Library director says mistake was made in book 'weeding'
• Pegasus Librarian: Managing a collection is easier without all those books in the way: The Urbana Free Library’s lesson for the rest of us
• Ars Technica: Encrypted e-mail: How much annoyance will you tolerate to keep the NSA away?
• Practical Cryptography: GPG (2008)
• Free Software Foundation: Fight PRISM through the Free Software Directory
• PCWorld: NSA surveillance hikes interest in non-US cloud providers
• CBS MoneyWatch: Why geniuses don't have jobs

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