The Whitehouse petition to pre-emptively pardon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for “crimes he may have committed while blowing the whistle” has reached its goal…
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How Today's NSA Is Much, Much Worse Than Stasi Or Orwell's “1984”
There are still people warning us of sleepwalking into a Stasi or “1984” society. They missed the boat by a long shot: we are…
Read MoreCopyright Industry Demands, Gets Levies For Every XBox, Playstation Sold
The copyright industry has decreed in Sweden that it will now collect levies for every XBox and Playstation sold – about €10 ($12) per…
Read MorePRISM – The British Dimension
Loz Kaye, leader of the UK Pirate Party, gives a view from the UK about the NSA PRISM revelations: The cultural sense among ordinary…
Read MoreSo Just Exactly What Is NSA's Prism, More Than Reprehensibly Evil?
The US NSA’s PRISM program appears to be a set of specialized deep-packet inspection filters combined with pre-existing wiretapping points at high-level Internet carriers…
Read More4 UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology
Now that our worst wiretapping fears have been confirmed, millions of people are realizing that we need to start using decentralized, encrypted communication yesterday….
Read MoreTold You So: If You Have Been Using A Centralized Comms Service, You Were Wiretapped
This night, news broke that the USA’s security agencies have been wiretapping essentially every major centralized social service for private data. Photos, video conferences,…
Read MoreHow Bitcoin Can Bring Down The United States Of America
Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a…
Read MoreSwarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Five.
Anybody who has led guilds or raids in World of Warcraft can learn how to lead a swarm. Or, for that matter, most entrepreneurs…
Read MoreWhy Google Is Not A Search Engine But An Investigative News Agency, And Why That Matters
Google has long been the number one “search engine”. Perhaps that’s the entirely wrong way to think about the service, leading to a number…
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