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Protesters Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA's Utah Data Center

Dega704 sends this news from Wired: Plenty of nightmare surveillance theories surround the million-square-foot NSA facility opened last year in Bluffdale, Utah. Any locals driving by the massive complex Friday morning saw something that may inspire new ones: A massive blimp hovering over the center, with the letters NSA printed on its side.

Activist groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace launched the 135-foot thermal airship early Friday morning to protest the agency's mass surveillance programs and to announce the launch of Stand Against Spying, a website that rates members of Congress on their support or opposition to NSA reform. The full message on the blimp reads 'NSA: Illegal Spying Below' along with an arrow pointing downward and the Stand Against Spying URL."

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  1. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So Fucking Awesome!

    That is all.

  2. "NSA! "We've got NSA here!" by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "See? Nobody cares."

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel