Slack has updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been…
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Once again: Privacy promises from a company are worth nothing, because companies can’t promise anything
In the last post, I recalled that the only thing that matter whether data collection is taking place is whether it's technically possible, and…
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Once again: If you carry a sensor of any kind, you must assume it to be active and collecting data, you can’t trust pinky promises
As Quartz revealed, Google has been tracking your location since the start of 2017. At this point, the story should not be about why…
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How did the free sharing of scientific knowledge and culture become the worst crime our justice systems could think of?
Sci-Hub is starting to get judgments and censorship applied against it. It’s noteworthy that not even murder or genocide is considered cause for such…
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Paywalls drive mass surveillance and give the NSA the advantage
Putting network specifications behind subscription paywalls gives the NSA and other surveillance agencies a decisive advantage against the freedom of the Internet. That is…
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A suggested definition for “Bitcoin to the Moon”
“Bitcoin to the Moon” has long been a common saying, but nobody knows what it really means. I propose it is time to define…
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The recent catastrophic Wi-Fi vulnerability was in plain sight for 13 years behind a corporate paywall
The recent Wi-Fi “KRACK” vulnerability, which allowed anyone to get onto a secure network (and which was quickly patched by reputable vendors), had been…
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Reminder: In government training material, “terrorism” includes peacefully disagreeing with administration policy in public
Governments are still using “terrorism” as a scareword to get any insane law passed – like Britain’s digital book-burning law. But with its other…
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Why shouldn’t copyright monopoly law apply on the Internet?
Every so often, you hear copyright industry lobbyists ask “why copyright law shouldn’t apply on the Internet”, suggesting that the Internet is a lawless…
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With the World Wide Web Consortium captured by the copyright industry, who will step up to lead web development next?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which used to develop standards for the Web, has been captured by the copyright industry. In a doubly…
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