"Wozniak didn't offer much in the way of specifics . . . . [but said, 't]he more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the ...

More at the links. 1. What Facebook Knows . "[O]n 219 million randomly chosen occasions, Facebook prevented someone from seeing a li...

Use them or lose them. (Not to mention the waste of public funds.)

Been out of town; so, in cased you missed these (more re- each item at the headline link) . . . 1. Don't Forget to Sign Up for the ...

A new user interface is being forced on us bloggers. My and others' experience indicates it's harder to use and offers much less co...

If you don't read her book, at least watch this: (Another irresistible re-blog from Boing Boing ).

Don't miss Michael Hasting's excellent, recent interview of Julian Assange in Rolling Stone . Assange mentions the speaker in the v...

(1) "Who Are My Sycophants?"; and (2) "Of Whom Am I on the Brink of Becoming Categorized as a Sycophant?"

As of today, LeakDirect lists 23 of them (with links). Somebody had to be first.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world’s most comprehensive datab...

(Thanks, Ben!)

"CV Dazzle" is based on the original camouflage from WWI and targets automated face detection and recognition systems by altering ...

I'm still seeing a lot of confusion about what Anonymous is. During the last several months, Anon constituencies have been most active i...

Or, Are We in Post-Reality Yet? The full essay with links to sources and more is here . (To comment on it, please return to this post and c...

Charlie Chapman was Anonymous : The Great Dictator (1940) is a comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. I...

I'm working on an essay to put flesh on these bones, but wanted to get this out there without further delay. The essay will have lots o...

This video has been around for a few months and is long, but it's very good – I'm not aware of a better summation of many of the iss...

As reported rather breathlessly by The NYT , you can now make and receive phone calls to/from regular phones from/at your computer for free,...

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information ...

"American Civil Liberties Union has issued a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals 'for ...