Governments are still using “terrorism” as a scareword to get any insane law passed – like Britain’s digital book-burning law. But with its other…
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Why does Britain want to put the public in prison for fact-checking claims in the mainstream media?
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced a fifteen-year prison sentence for watching terrorist propaganda, whatever that means this week. There is an exception…
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Why shouldn’t copyright monopoly law apply on the Internet?
Every so often, you hear copyright industry lobbyists ask “why copyright law shouldn’t apply on the Internet”, suggesting that the Internet is a lawless…
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With the World Wide Web Consortium captured by the copyright industry, who will step up to lead web development next?
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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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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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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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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