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Internet Pioneers Berners-Lee, Cerf, Strickling ask: “What Kind of Net Do You Want?”

Internet Pioneers Berners-Lee, Cerf, Strickling ask: “What Kind of Net Do You Want?”

May 20, 2011

The world-wide adoption of a decentralized network that connects everything creates continuous technical, social and policy challenges that no one could have foreseen in 1969. Even as we take the Net for granted, the way we do the air that we breathe, decisions are being made by policy-makers, technologists and end-users that shape its future.

Why the Freedom Box Won’t Save You

Why the Freedom Box Won’t Save You

March 8, 2011

The temporary shutdown in Egypt of Internet and other telecommunication services, as well as similar interruptions in other Middle East countries experiencing large-scale protests and rebellions, has galvanized hackers and human rights activists as well as U.S. foreign policy makers. The consequences may be not be what anyone expected.

Mideast protesters reject repressive regimes; remain tethered to tech they can’t control

February 1, 2011

Protesters fed up with political repression, corruption and poverty (particularly recent food price inflation) toppled the government of Tunisia. They threaten to do the same in other countries throughout the Mideast as pundits hail the "Twitter and Facebook revolution." But repressive governments have as much compunction about shutting down communication services as they do about torturing dissidents.

Surveillance Self-Defense

March 8, 2009

You haven't done anything wrong, so why should you worry about surveillance? It was Cardinal Richelieu who said, "If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him." The United States doesn't hang innocent people any more, but it certainly does imprison them by the millions, and occasionally does kill them.

Bush gets surveillance "blank check"

August 11, 2007

Last weekend the Bush administration pushed through Congress a law to bolster the government's ability to intercept the electronic communications of foreigners and other "persons reasonably believed to be outside the U.S." without a court order.

NSA spying program tip of iceberg

August 2, 2007

In late 2001, President Bush signed an executive order authorizing a controversial National Security Agency program, and on Tuesday, director of national intelligence Mike McConnell revealed that the executive order authorized not only the "terrorist surveillance program" whose existence was revealed in 2005, but a series of other programs as well.

The news just keeps breaking

July 10, 2007

Updates to stories previously covered at Homeland Stupidity include spying, spying and more spying.

Mobile devices to change people's interactions with government

May 22, 2007

Technology is changing how people interact with government forever, says a prominent homeland security consultant.

FBI audit finds improper use of national security letters

March 11, 2007

The Federal Bureau of Investigation repeatedly broke the law in order to obtain personal information about tens of thousands of Americans, much of which was never related to any sort of investigation, according to an inspector general's report released Friday.

Terrorist surveillance program to require warrants

January 18, 2007

The Bush administration will stop conducting warrantless surveillance on Americans with suspected ties to terrorism, and will give the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court jurisdiction over the so-called terrorist surveillance program run by the National Security Agency since shortly after 9/11 and first disclosed in December 2005.

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