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Describes the personal relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and those who encoded military telegraph messages during the Civil War

The cipher described in this article was so secret that even President Lincoln "was denied access to the codes."

An article debating security/surveillance vs. privacy post-Snowden leaks, written fall 2014 for Stanford Lawyer Magazine

Discusses some of the points we brought up in class and provides statistics, but data is from 2013 and could potentially show the effects of events in the past two years when combined with Abbey's post

A description of the U.S. military's first cryptographic system.

There are already in place many automatic license plate readers on things such as road signs and bridges. This has purposes for helping track vehicles known to be owned by criminals, but simultaneously the tracking information is stored for millions of innocent people as well.

This blog post interested me with the vast history of rabies, how people attempted to cure those infected, and how some civilizations used this deadly disease to their advantage in times of war.

This article, though very clearly biased, describes the ways in which the movements of citizens are being tracked by both technology and the police. The video/information slides are obviously carried out with bias, but the information is still there. The end of the article has some interesting (helpful?) information about what the judicial system is ruling on cases involving location tracking without warrants.

This article discusses the use of RFIDs to track students, and the benefits of this practice, especially with small children.

You are still being watched, and your data being collected, so be careful what you send and to where you send it too. Innocent messages sent out of the country can easily make you become a person of interest for no reason.