4711
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,917 posts.
Society, Policy & Culture
Any year
4712
4713
4714
What is Traitorware?
Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera's serial number or your location. Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it. If Apple puts a particularly creepy...
4715
4716
Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
4717
Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms
This website describes a technology, unhosted web apps, which we find so important that some of us quit our day jobs and other spend their evenings and weekends to work for the higher goal of free technology, not just as a job that pays the bill. Why do we work for free? Why are unhosted web apps so important? Why…
4718
4719
Governments shouldn’t have a monopoly on Internet governance
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
4720
Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in its...
4721
4722
Copyright troll lawsuit blows up in face of Righthaven
Righthaven is attempting to make a business out of suing Internet websites for copyright infringement. It has filed 180 copyright actions so far —without ever first asking that a work be removed from the target website—in each case alleging “willful infringement” and attempting to extract...
4723
4724
4725
EFF: Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary
Co-authored by Rainey Reitman and Marcia Hofmann The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression against government encroachment — but that doesn't help if the censorship doesn't come from the government. The controversial whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, which has begun...
4726
Amazon speaks up about WikiLeaks decision
Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
4727
4728
4729
4730
4731
4732
4733
Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
will go to Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) if Griffin wins, or The Computer History Museum (www.computerhistory.org) if Bell wins.
4734
World's largest association of pilots boycotts body scanners
Big Brother Watch exposes and challenges threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK.
4735
4736
4737
4738
4739
4740