Arrgh, I wish I could go to this! Eben Moglen is giving a series of talks entitled “Snowden and the
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The default category for posts on this site; the equivalent of “Uncategorized” in a fresh WordPress installation :-).
Dear Lazyweb: How long will it take you to fix the LOVEINT problem?
Just for the record, I know I could have created the English-language wikipedia entry for LOVEINT myself. But I wanted
Continue readingMy favorite RSS reader, Feedbin.me, goes open source!
I’d been waiting for this! (N.b.: had inside information it was coming.) The code behind my favorite RSS reader, feedbin.me,
Continue readingOffline.
I’m taking a vacation from email for a few weeks, so please don’t worry if you don’t get a response — just
Continue readingCredit where credit is due: LibreOffice is now ridiculously easy to build.
About fifty million years ago, I encountered a minor bug in the OpenOffice word processor. It was an easy fix,
Continue readingMissing OSCON this year.
For those friends I’m not seeing in Portland this year: sorry to miss you this time! I decided, for once
Continue readingTaking sides.
Every Fourth of July, the New York Times prints the entire Declaration of Independence of the United States on the
Continue readingPRISM: Why the “directly and unilaterally” mistake matters.
My post about how a central claim of the PRISM story turns out not to be true has drawn a
Continue readingParsing PRISM: Gen. Keith Alexander did not claim “dozens of attacks” were prevented.
Over and over we’ve read that Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, claimed that its massive surveillance program
Continue readingPRISM: 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
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