The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which used to develop standards for the Web, has been captured by the copyright industry. In a doubly…
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Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and a low-altitude motorcycle pilot. He lives on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, roasts his own coffee, and as of right now (2019-2020) is taking a little break.
Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on the upcoming copyright vote
On October 10, an important committee in the European Parliament will vote on future copyright law. It hangs in the balance, and ordinary people…
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Your phone can now be turned into an ultrasound sonar tracker against you and others
New research shows how a mobile phone can be turned into a passive indoor ultrasound sonar, locating people with high precision indoors using multi-target…
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Hardware maker: Give up your privacy and let us record what you say in your home, or we’ll destroy your property
Hardware maker Sonos has a new privacy policy, and is telling users that unless they agree to it, their devices may cease to function…
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IMSI Catching: Phone surveillance measures and countermeasures go mainstream
The German newspaper Die Zeit has a long feature this week about IMSI catchers and their countermeasures, words that were long heard only in…
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Right on the Money: Bitcoin hits $3,000, or 1000x my entry point six years ago
In 2011, I went all-in into bitcoin. As I described in a blog post at the time, I took all my savings and my…
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Why politicians don’t, and can’t, understand the Internet
Politicians do not understand the Internet. It is not so much that the politicians in power today in their 60s weren’t born with it,…
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Danish ISPs stop providing copyright industry with subscriber identities
Denmark’s ISPs are collectively putting their foot down and will no longer surrender identifying subscriber information to the copyright industry’s lawyer armies. This follows…
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Is it prudent to ask if Britain’s nuke subs, which also run Windows XP, have also been hit by ransomware?
Britain’s hospitals have been brought to a standstill because of ransomware infecting obsolete and unpatched Windows XP systems. The same obsolete operating system is…
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The six worst hypocrisies of the copyright industry in the last decade
The copyright industry keeps pounding a simplistic message to legislators – that copyright law is simple and that nobody honest could ever break it,…
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