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Dublin city council cancels free citywide WiFi: "Illegal under Euro law"
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on January 10, 2008
Olly F writes, "This is sad stuff. A remote, unelected bureaucracy in Brussels dictates that city councils can't provide free wi-fi. By cities, I mean all those in 27 countries. The EU is not on the citizen's side. This is only the latest example."A plan to provide free wireless broadband throughout Dublin has been abandoned.Dublin City Council has decided the plan would be contrary
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Why it's good to leave your WiFi open
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on January 10, 2008
Bruce Schneier has a wonderful essay up on Wired explaining why he runs an open wireless network at home -- and how that fits in with security. I've run open wireless networks since the late 1990s (in five cities in three countries) and I've never encountered the problems that everyone says are inevitable -- network contention, crap from my ISP, busts for the child-porn my neighbors are...
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First-person account of CIA torture survivor
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on December 15, 2007
Today's Salon features a long first-person account of Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, who was kidnapped to a CIA "black site" torture camp. It's strong and scary stuff, and the people responsible deserve to be hauled into court, shown up for the criminals they are, and stuck in a cell for the rest of their lives. The traitors in government who sanctioned this program should join them....
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Reading of the US Constitution
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on January 15, 2008
Debra Jean Dean has done a wonderful, expertly engineered reading of the US Constitution, one of the most inspiring documents ever penned. The reading is released under a Creative Commons license.Link(Thanks, We The People...!)(Image:
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Database leaks are as immortal and toxic as nuclear spills -- let's start acting like it
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on January 21, 2008
My latest Guardian column is online: "Personal data is as hot as nuclear waste," which looks at the immortality of databases -- just as it's impossible for the Internet to scourge itself of Paris Hilton's terrible genitals, it is likewise impossible that the personal information hemorrhaged by the likes of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (25 million records!) will ever go away. In...
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Honor student suspended for bringing multitool to school
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on January 21, 2008
Tom says: "Christopher Berger, an honor student at Grayslake Central High School in the Chicago 'burbs, left his multitool (which has a 2 inch blade, among other things) in his jacket, and left the jacket in the school cafeteria. Not only did he get a sus
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Congress moving forward with plan to tie college funding to support for RIAA measures
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on January 20, 2008
The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns us that H.R. 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007, is still steaming ahead with its "Campus-based Digital Theft Prevention" that ties college funding to universities' purchase of DRM-based industry-sanctioned download services and deployment of network snoopware that spies on and disconnects college kids if they appear to be...
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Computers piece together millions of shredded Stasi documents
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on January 22, 2008
A moving and intriguing Wired feature tells the story of the activists, hackers and engineers who are working to un-shred millions of hand-shredded secret files that the East German Stasi ripped to pieces in the run-up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The secret police panicked when they realized that they were about to lose their tight rein on power and shredded as much as they could -- but...
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Homeland Security Convention snapshots
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on January 21, 2008
Photographer Dave Bullock attended The Homeland Security Stakeholders Conference for Wired News, and shot photos of the security tech products on display. "From throwable video cameras to shotgun-wielding robots, these are the gadgets that help you sleep at night, unless you have something to hide..." Link to photo gallery.
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Radio show on surveillance in America
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on January 22, 2008
... proposal to expand government surveillance Americans' use of the internet.McDonnel also discussed Cyber-Privacy vs. Electronic Security with Marc Rotenberg, the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center And McDonnel reviewed the New FISA Bill with Helen Fessenden, the editor for the beltway newspaper, 'The Hill,' and author of the article, '...
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