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NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander asserted yesterday that two "Boundless Informant" slides we published - one in Le Monde and the other in El Mundo - were misunderstood and misinterpreted. The NSA then dispatched various officials to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post to make the same claim, and were (needless to say) given anonymity by those papers to spout off without accountability. Several US journalists (also needless to say) instantly treated the NSA's claims as gospel even though they (a) are accompanied by no evidence, (b) come in the middle of a major scandal for the agency at home and abroad and (c) are from officials with a history of lying to Congress and the media.

A U.S. designer has created a thought-provoking video of what a world policed by ‘security drones’ might look like.

Alex Cornell’s video, which is set on the streets of San Francisco gives a drone's-eye view of the city and suggests what sort of security operations the controversial technology might be used for.

The film, which is called ‘Our Drone Future,’ explores the technology, capability and purpose of drones as he predicts their presence will be ‘increasingly pervasive in the skies of tomorrow’.