"the government has avoided a trial in which the 65-year-old former executive planned to air what he says was his refusal, in 2001, to allow Qwest to participate in a National Security Agency program he believed was illegal."
I think it's unfair not to clarify that he went to jail for insider trading.
He believes that that the government only brought the action against him because he refused to divulge user data, but he is in jail because of insider trading.
"the NSA proposition to Qwest was nearly seven months before 9/11, according to Nacchio."
"In a bizarre twist, the judge in Nacchio's case, Edward Nottingham, was soon embroiled in scandal, accused of soliciting prostitutes and allegedly asking one to lie to investigators. He resigned and apologized, but wasn't prosecuted."
"Nacchio's conviction was overturned on appeal in a decision that found Judge Nottingham made key errors.
But the government got the conviction reinstated by a split judges' panel."
Once you pick a file, I'm fairly certain that the metadata is made available as a JavaScript Blob object containing any relevant metadata (this is how Facebook geotags uploaded photos)
Neither, if I understand it correctly. It provides a secure environment for logging into the captive portal (rather than using the OS-built ins), without having to disable/change other network/security settings (DNS/HTTPS Everywhere).
