Over and over we’ve read that Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, claimed that its massive surveillance program
Continue readingAuthor: Karl Fogel
PRISM: The Problem with Collect-Then-Select.
[Note: This post now uses the phrase “collect-then-select”, instead of “collect-then-analyze”, which wasn’t quite as accurate. Other than that, and
Continue readingEpic botch of the PRISM story.
[Update 2013-06-13: See Rick Perlstein’s piece about this on The Nation’s blog. Glenn Greenwald later responded here.] Mark Jaquith’s post
Continue readingPrivacy Promises and Client-Side Betrayal.
At the end of the post is a list of updates about new client-side betrayals I’ve noticed since this was
Continue readingBeyond App Contests: Playing the Long Game
[I recently found this unpublished draft sitting in my CivicCommons Tumblr account. I’m not sure why I didn’t post it
Continue readingEctoplasmic Security Is Important Too.
Hmmm, wouldn’t that be a “Spirit Guard”? (Or perhaps “Zombie Guard”?) Compound words and hyphenation… two great tastes that go
Continue readingANVC Scalar looks interesting, but isn’t quite open source yet.
ANVC Scalar looks very promising: Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it
Continue readingHow easy is a Morozov-style takedown of Evgeny Morozov?
I just read Evgeny Morozov’s critique of Tim O’Reilly in the Baffler. It misses its mark pretty widely. I know
Continue readingRants.org RSS feed fixed.
The RSS feed for this site is now fixed. Thanks, Gunnar.
Continue readingSomeone designed that on purpose?
At the bottom of this otherwise good article is a little circle with the label “604 Kudos” next to it
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