State surveillance of personal data is theft, say world’s leading authors theguardian.com ? Matthew Taylor ? 12/9/13 5:00 PM ? More than 500 of the world’s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy … Read more
US shutdown: a radical Republican triumph Repeated gerrymandering means most Republicans represent safe seats and their main political rivals come from within their own party Is the government shut down? Quartz will tell you (and drive a little traffic in the process) The shutdown of the federal government will be unfortunate for a lot of … Read more
U.S. Government Shutdown: Who to Follow on Twitter UPDATE: Just after 12 a.m. ET on Tuesday, the government shutdown became official, according to government officials and multiple news reports. As Americans consider the ominous specter of a government shutdown, here, below, is a list of Twitter accounts that will keep you informed Ten Questions About Obamacare … Read more
A technical explanation here. Feds bring down Tor-hosted child porn site using suspected vulnerability in Firefox browser The US government has successfully taken down one of the Internet?s largest child porn sites, following a program that cracked security on a service that enables anonymous Internet browsing and site hosting. Twitter Reveals Data About the U.S. Government … Read more