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Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation “I have nothing to hide from the government, so why should I worry? “ Handy guide from the EFF

Working out really well

U.S Internet Users Pay More For Slower Speeds Man, the free market is working out SO WELL!

sucky broadband

I’ve blogged before about my internet options and linked to charts showing that Americans pay more money for less bandwidth than just about every other developed nation in the world. Lawrence Lessig makes this point (among others) in this speech at WiscNet Future Technology Conference. The larger context of this speech is the corrupting influence […]

yessssssssss

one of my all-time favorite things on the internet, ever, (the show with ze frank) is coming back. he’s funding it (a show with ze frank) on kickstarter if you’d like to kick in five bucks.

the sopa / pipa battle rages on…

This analysis of an op-ed from the RIAA chief is worth a read: RIAA Still Raging against Google, Wikipedia

this is pretty intense

“If a company has significant intellectual property that the Chinese and Russians are interested in, and you go over there with mobile devices, your devices will get penetrated,” said Joel F. Brenner, formerly the top counterintelligence official in the office of the director of national intelligence. Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery – […]

lessig on laws that choke creativity

larry lessig was being introduced by jon stewart on the daily show a few nights ago, and I declared out of nowhere to my wife that he’s one of my heroes. I don’t think I’ve ever declared that I had a hero, but here we go, mr. lessig, you’re my first! his 2007 ted talk […]