Detekt the Detectors

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"Governments are increasingly using surveillance technology, and targeted surveillance in particular, to monitor the legitimate activities of human rights activists and journalists," says Amnesty International. (For example, http://dailym.ai/1uKLPOv and http://usat.ly/1FaXRoX.) But you probably already knew that. What you may not have known is that there's a free app to help those who have reason to be concerned about this kind of thing. Detekt, which is now available to the public, scans the computer for signs of the more commonly used spyware: http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/detekt-new-tool-against-government-surveillance

   Speaking of spying, here's a list from American History Magazine of the 100 best (in their opinion, of course) spy movies. It was compiled in 2009, so they might have missed one or two of the more recent entries, but it's an impressive and thorough list nonetheless: http://letterboxd.com/travissmcclain/list/american-history-magazines-100-greatest-spy/