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One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
Today, the FCC voted on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to repeal and replace net neutrality protections enacted in 2015. The verdict: to move forward with
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Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Silicon Valley [audio]
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Neutral vs. Conservative: The Eternal Struggle
I. Vox’s David Roberts writes about Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology. It’s got a long and complicated argument which I can’t really do justice to here, but the the…
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FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed
An Explosion of Comments
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Lessons from last week’s cyberattack
Early Friday morning the world experienced the year’s latest cyberattack. Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally, blocking customers from their data unless they paid a ransom using Bitcoin. The WannaCrypt exploits used in the attack were drawn from…
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Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013)
The Paint.NET web site runs ads designed to lead naïve users to download unrelated adware. This needs to stop
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Book Review: Seeing Like A State
I. Seeing Like A State is the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature. Since he didn’t, James Scott had to write it a century later.…
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Chaos Communication Congress is moving to Leipzig
The 34th iteration of the annual Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) will again take place in December, but at a new location: the congress and convention center in Leipzig. Congress had to find a...
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Silicon Valley: A Reality Check
The nation has spoken: weird pointless $400 wi-fi enabled juicer company Juicero is the perfect symbol of Silicon Valley. So says the Washington Post: Juicero Shows What’s Wrong With Silicon …
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Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
On March 20th, Cloudflare received our first patent infringement claim: Blackbird Tech LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc. Today we’re filing our Answer to that claim in a federal court in Delaware.
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Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (2015)
Is the best way to curb crime a widespread program in cognitive behavioral therapy?
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Net neutrality is in jeopardy again
Net neutrality is in jeopardy again. We need another grassroots movement By Ashley Boyd, VP Advocacy A little over two years ago, the mood here at Mozil
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Brian Eno: Composers as Gardeners
So for me, this was really a new paradigm of composing. Changing the idea of the composer from somebody who stood at the top of a process and dictated precisely how it was carried out, to somebody who stood at the bottom of a process who carefully planted some rather well-selected seeds, hopefully, and watched them…
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How To Use 23andMe Irresponsibly (2014)
As you might remember, the FDA stomped on 23andMe for using too many irresponsible genetic tests that purported to tell you things about yourself and your health with limited support. They eventual…
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Why Is the TSA Scanning Paper?
I’ve been reading a bunch of anecdotal reports that the TSA is starting to scan paper separately: A passenger going through security at Kansas City International Airport (MCI) recently was asked by security officers to remove all paper products from his bag. Everything from books to Post-It Notes, documents and more…
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Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
Since I am not living in my home country, I frequently use two different SIM cards and prefer having a phone with dual-sim support. This limits your choice s...
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Americans' Access to Strong Encryption Is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress
When sophisticated adversaries want to hack a network, they ultimately win. A government mandated encryption backdoor would make Americans less safe.
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The fifty shades of Latin
In the bird’s-eye view, one might have the comforting illusion that country borders are also language borders. Especially where the bor...
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How I realised “Free Software” is a better term than “Open Source”
A month ago I wrote an article called "How I realised “Open Source” is a better term than “Free Software”" . Now I change my mind completely and explain why everything I said was actually wrong.
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If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
Everyone knows a horror story about PayPal, I’ve had several painful experiences with them over the last decade, but now I’ll never have to…
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