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Tor Exit Nodes in Libraries – Pilot
Hello Tor Community! We first introduced you to the Library Freedom Project back in February...
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Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change
You can be identified by how you type, even behind proxies and Tor. Protect yourself with KeyboardPrivacy.
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My Life as an Autistic Wikipedian
Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum. As I learned more about myself and the way my brain worked, I started to look at past experiences through the lens of this newly-found…
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MIRI's Approach – Machine Intelligence Research Institute
MIRI's mission is "to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact." How can we ensure any such thing? It's a
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Nóirín Plunkett has died
It is with great sadness that the Foundation and its members were notified about the sudden passing of Nóirín Plunkett.
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Sleeping Through a Revolution
Letter to the Millenials 2
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Why Open Offices?
If one person is wrong, they’re wrong. If a lot of people, some of whom got extremely rich off of their wrong ideas, are wrong, there’s a good possibility I’m the wrong one. At …
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Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial
Trade ministers are meeting behind closed-doors at the Westin Resort and Spa in Maui this week to finalize the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is the first formal round of talks since the U.S. passed the controversial Fast Track trade legislation in June, which has given U.S....
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Freedom On The Centralized Web
I. A lot of libertarians and anarcho-capitalists envision a future of small corporate states competing for migrants and capital by trying to have the best policies. But the Internet is about as clo…
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Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused
Microsoft has renewed its Privacy Policy and Service Agreement. The new services agreement goes into effect on 1 August 2015, only a couple of days after the launch of the Windows 10 operating system on 29 July. The new “privacy dashboard” is presented to give the users a possibility to control their data related to…
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Stop pushing the web forward
Fair warning. You’re going to hate this one. I want to stop pushing the web forward for a while. I want a moratorium on new browser features for about a year or so.
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Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers
2016 (>30k signatures) open letter for AI and Robotics researchers calling for ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.
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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of “outsiders” ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail. Drawing on data from the US, Germany and the UK, Alexandre Afonso looks at how…
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The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library
It's been an exciting summer for the Library of Congress. Last month, the Librarian Dr. James Billington announced he would soon be stepping down, vacating a seat he's held for some 28 years. That announcement came hot on the heels of a new legislative proposal—the nigh-ungooglable CODE Act, which...
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French Constitutional Council Widely Approves Surveillance Law
Update (24 July 2015): The French Constitutional Council shows again its disregard for fundamental rights. This morning, after approving almost all dispositions in the Surveillance law, the Constitutional Council builds momentum by rejecting the Question Prioritaire de ConstitutionalitéThe QPC is a
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The Verge's web sucks
TL;DR: Did you know that The Verge delivers you to around 20 companies for advertising & tracking purposes? I didn't. That might foul up your web experience a little bit. Maybe we should try something different.
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Comparing how security experts and non-experts stay safe online
Posted by Iulia Ion, Software Engineer - Rob Reeder, Research Scientist - Sunny Consolvo, User Experience Researcher Today, you can find...
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Why We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi
“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.”
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Links as originally imagined were a separate layer of annotation on documents
There’s a follow-up to this article, now, which explains the federated wiki angle to this more clearly.. “Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on his work, by whatever twi…
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Snowden Meets the IETF
Last night, we had a screening of CITIZENFOUR at the IETF meeting in Prague, and about 170 people showed up to see the movie about Edward Snowden’s relevations — information that led the IETF to declare such pervasive monitoring as an attack on the Internet itself.
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Ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton
A new study finds that increased ocean acidification will dramatically affect global populations of phytoplankton: Some species will die out, while others will flourish, which will affect marine food webs.
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Why I am pro-GPL
Last night at OSCON I attended the lightning talks (here called "Ignite Talks"). Most of them were pretty good (I especially loved Emily Dunham's "First Impressions (the value of the 'noob')" talk), but the last talk of the night was titled "Why I don’t use the GPL" by Shane Curcuru, "VP of Brand Management at the…
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Google, the Wassenaar arrangement, and vulnerability research
Posted by Neil Martin, Export Compliance Counsel, Google Legal Tim Willis, Hacker Philanthropist, Chrome Security Team Cross-posted on...
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