Kansas puts a $25 withdrawal limit on public-assistance cash cards. Source: Cash-Strapped Kansas Moves to Limit ATM Withdrawals for Residents on Welfare – Bloomberg Politics

Hack occurred at Office of Personnel Management which is the human resources department for the federal government and does security clearance checks Source: US officials >>>

Wiretaps by the DEA tripled over 10 years, mostly thanks to state courts, records show. Source: DEA eavesdropping tripled, bypassed federal courts

As it appears YotaPhone serves a backdoor to its customers opening gates to customers privacy to FSB (former KGB). Source: Russian YotaPhone Special Feature = >>>

A trove of emails provided to The Intercept detail Russian schemes to obtain a crucial component for military thermal imaging systems. Source: Hacked Emails Reveal >>>

The most controversial elements of the spying bill may never be coming back, lawmakers from both parties tell The Daily Beast. Here’s why. Source: The >>>

Last week, the Obama administration said that it would begin winding down the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ private phone data i Source: >>>

Source: Steve Wozniak: Edward Snowden is ‘a hero to me’

The NSA and its partners developed a top-secret method to infect smartphones with spyware through Google and Samsung app servers, Snowden documents reveal. Source: NSA >>>