Federal judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal

Posted by mihai_ionic on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:29PM
from the boston.com dept.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/12/27/judge-rules-nsa-phone-surveillance-legal/WaF4dgUZoZFdsCfYAWZoAO/story.html

( 3 comments | 3 points | on HN )

Re:Federal judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal by ColinWright on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:44PM (#6972954)

An exceedingly popular story. The discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971454 (nytimes.com)

Other submissions include:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972387 (rt.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972099 (npr.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971827 (uscourts.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971787 (reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971666 (politico.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971626 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971622 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971526 (usatoday.com)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Federal judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal by mihai_ionic on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:53PM (#6972987)

Thanks.

The ranking algorithm seems to be acting in strange ways. The top submission only shows up on the third page, which explains how I missed it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Federal judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal by RiderOfGiraffes on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:59PM (#6973012)

No major oddities showing up: http://hnrankings.info/6971454/

I suspect there have been a couple of down votes with people just getting tired of the whole thing and wanting HN to be more about actual hacking. But mostly it's just been several hours now.

[ Parent | on HN ]