The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux. This was revealed in this week’s…
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The NSA And U.S. Congress Have Destroyed All Web Security. We Must Rebuild It From The Ground Up.
The NSA has forged web security certificates. What’s worse, we knew that they could, and we still trusted certificate-based web security. Web security as…
Read MoreEconomics 101 For Newcomers To Discussion On Sharing
This is a primer on some fundamental concepts of economics: property, sale, goods, services. In the discussions around sharing of culture and knowledge, many…
Read MoreWho Watches The Watchers? On Russia Today
In Sunday’s “Worlds Apart” show on Russia Today, Oksana Boyko interviewed me about the NSA leaks and the state of civil liberties in the…
Read MoreThe Ouya Has Geopolitical Implications (For Your Kids)
The world’s first mass-market open source video game console is not going to turn the video game industry upside down any time soon. But…
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…
Read MoreUnited States Government Shows The World It Doesn't Understand The Internet, Claims "Ownership" Of Specific Files
The United States Department of Defense has “claimed ownership” of CAD drawings of a plastic, printable pistol. In doing so, they apparently believe they…
Read MoreThe Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience
The Pirate Bay is a site that has remained online for ten years come this summer, despite attempts from almost every Ancient-Power-That-Be to shut…
Read MoreEvidence The Pirate Bay Move To North Korea Was A Prank, In Understandable Terms
Yesterday’s big story was definitely about The Pirate Bay having moved to North Korea. If you asked the Internet’s infrastructure, the net itself would…
Read MoreRoutine Dismissive Agreements To Terms Of Service Are A Real Problem (Poll Inside)
The habit for companies to write terms of service to a length and complexity nobody can understand, coupled with the subsequent habit of everybody…
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