CURRENT EVENTS SEPTEMBER 6

1. CURRENT EVENTS SEPTEMBER 6 NSA CRACKED MOST ONLINE ENCRYPTION SAYS REPORT • The National Security Agency, working with the British government, has secretly been unraveling encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data safe • The NSA has bypassed or altogether cracked much of the digital encryption used by businesses and everyday Web users • The reports describe how the NSA invested billions of dollars since 2000 to make nearly everyone's secrets available for government consumption. CURRENT EVENTS TERM ONE Sept 6 #1

2. CURRENT EVENTS SEPTEMBER 6 • The revelations stem from documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who sought asylum in Russia this summer. • His leaks, first published by the Guardian, revealed a massive effort by the U.S. government to collect and analyze all sorts of digital data that Americans send at home and around the world. This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency CURRENT EVENTS TERM ONE Sept 6 #1

3. CURRENT EVENTS SEPTEMBER 6 5 TIPS FOR BETTER SLEEP AFTER KIDS RETURN TO SCHOOL • Technology like computers, TV and cellphones has tremendously reduced the amount and quality of sleep that children and teens get compared to 20 years ago, a Canadian pediatrician says. • Recent data suggests that 60 per cent of teens will keep their cellphone in their room and respond to a text at night, said Dr. IndraNarang of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. • The average teen should get nine hours of sleep, but the medical literature and research at SickKids suggest they get only about seven hours. CURRENT EVENTS TERM ONE Sept 6 #1

4. CURRENT EVENTS SEPTEMBER 6 • Suggestions for better sleep: • Establish a sleep routine that includes winding down after dinner before going to sleep — avoidance of television, no cellphones and no video games so the body and brain unwind and prepare for slumber. • Keep a set bedtime and a set wake-up time that spills over into the weekend. • Take devices like cellphones out of the bedroom at light's out. • Keep the house quiet. • Avoid bright lights in the bedroom. Night lights are OK. • Children who are sleep-deprived or who have sleep disturbance can have problems with behaviour and learning • http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/09/04/sleep-children-teens-cellphones.html CURRENT EVENTS TERM ONE Sept 6 #1

5. CURRENT EVENTS SEPTEMBER 6 FAMILY DITCHES COMPUTERS, LIVES LIKE IT'S 1986 • A family of four from Guelph, Ont., has banished cell phones and computers, donned cut-off jeans and combed out their mullets, vowing to live the low-tech life for a year. • Blair McMillan, his partner Morgan Patey, and their two sons Trey, 5, and Denton, 2, are playing an elaborate game of make-believe, pretending it is the year 1986 — the year Blair and Morgan were born. • He said he noticed a number of "red flags" watching his kids grow up tethered to technology and decided he needed to take action. CURRENT EVENTS TERM ONE Sept 6 #1

6. CURRENT EVENTS SEPTEMBER 6 • They even dress the part, with mullets for the three boys, an 80s-inspired hairstyle for Morgan, a true Tom SelleckMagnum P.I. moustache for Blair and vintage clothing for all. • The family packed up their tablets, phones, computers and DVDs in plastic tubs and stowed them, along with three flat screen TVs, in Blair's parents' cellar. • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/story/2013/09/05/kw-retro-family-blair-mcmillan.html At the heart of the unplugging movement is a desire to get back to a purer way of living: to rediscover hobbies, use your hands, get outdoors, have a conversation that isn’t mediated by bits and bytes. CURRENT EVENTS TERM ONE Sept 6 #1