Microsoft Beefs up Encryption, France Worries about Bitcoin, Whistleblowers Warn Snowden: P.M. Links

In the wake of the various NSA
surveillance shockers, Microsoft has announced an effort to

beef up its encryption systems.
Russia is going to investigate a Reuters report that children
adopted by Americans are being
trafficked in an underground market by parents who had changed
their minds.
The Bank of France has joined China in worrying about the

stability of Bitcoin. They really should probably be more
worried about the stability of France.
Tomorrow Rand Paul will be in
Detroit recommending economic fixes there. No doubt his ideas
will seriously pondered by the civic … ha, ha, ha, no.
Jailed whistleblowers urge Edward Snowden
not to come home because did you notice the first word in this
sentence is “jailed?”
Amnesty International has released satellite images of
North Korea’s prison camps and worries they may be
growing.