Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash Broadway musical Hamilton — which recounts the events of 240 years ago — keeps looming large in our very current political discourse, from Hamilton's role in the… Read the rest of the article: Hamilton's eerie relevance to this moment in America's terrifying political journey
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Cory Doctorow The Snoopers Charter is the most invasive surveillance law ever passed by a "democracy", requiring service providers to retain records of virtually everything you do online and with your phone,… Read the rest of the article: British politicians exempt themselves from warrantless spying under the Snoopers Charter
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Cory Doctorow Here's the 32 minute video of my presentation at last month's O'Reilly Security Conference in New York, "Security and feudalism: Own or be pwned."
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Cory Doctorow The Electronic Frontier Foundation has disclosed that it has won two key victories for clients who'd received the FBI's notorious, gag-ordered National Security Letters — a form of secret warrant… Read the rest of the article: EFF battles misleading, sloppy, secret FBI warrants aimed at the Internet Archive and CREDO
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Cory Doctorow Aaron at the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, "Every dollar you give during the Power Up Your Donation campaign means two dollars for EFF—that's double the support for building privacy-enhancing tools,… Read the rest of the article: Double your donations to EFF and help dismantle mass surveillance in the Trump era
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Cory Doctorow Michael Geist writes, "The global music industry has spent two decades lobbying for restrictive DMCA-style restrictions on digital locks. These so-called "anti-circumvention rules" have been actively opposed by many groups,… Read the rest of the article: Canada's music lobby admits WIPO Internet Treaty drafters were "just guessing"
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Cory Doctorow Reflectacles, the hyper-reflective Ray Ban-style $75 glasses frames that Scott Urban is Kickstarting have a new feature: now you can get ones doped with materials that reflect the infrared light… Read the rest of the article: Reflectacles get a new feature: CCTV-blinding infrared reflectors
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Cory Doctorow The smirking, villainous pharma-hedge-douche-bro Martin Shkreli (previously) bought the rights to the anti-parasitic drug Daraprim — used to treat malaria, a disease that disproportionately affects the poorest people in the… Read the rest of the article: Children synthesize $2 version of Martin Shkreli's $750 malaria drug
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Cory Doctorow The New York Times indulged a bit of wishful thinking last week when it reported on Trump's surprise that his likely secretary of defense Marine Corps General James Mattis thought… Read the rest of the article: Donald Trump still loves torture
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Cory Doctorow Kratom (previously) is a widely used herb that has been very effective in treating opioid withdrawal and other chronic, hard-to-treat conditions — it also became very controversial this year because… Read the rest of the article: A deep dive into kratom, the herb that helps with opioid withdrawal
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Cory Doctorow Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren: "During the campaign, Donald Trump told the American people that he was going to change Washington by taking on Wall Street. Donald Trump's choice for… Read the rest of the article: Sanders and Warren issue joint statement slamming Trump's new finance industry alligator for his private DC swamp
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Cory Doctorow Deji writes, "Gambia is a small country but this story is pretty crazy. The president, who is seeking his 6th term, is using Trump rhetoric surrounding the 'rigging of elections.'… Read the rest of the article: Trumpism in Gambia: "marbles" election sparks internet shutdown
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Cory Doctorow Typewriter historian Martin Howard (previously) writes, "I was able to pick up a rare and exquisite Waverley typewriter (1896) this summer in Scotland and have just the other day posted… Read the rest of the article: Behold, the short-lived, wonderful 19th century Waverley Type-Writer
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Cory Doctorow So far 864 people in the UK have reported instances of "webcam blackmail" to police in 2016, more than double the number of reported incidents in 2015.
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Cory Doctorow Last week, the San Francisco Municipal Light Rail system (the Muni) had to stop charging passengers to ride because a ransomware hacker had taken over its network and encrypted the… Read the rest of the article: The hacker who took over San Francisco's Muni got hacked
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Cory Doctorow People need toilets, or the poop starts piling up, so video games that are supposed to simulate human environments need toilets to attain willing suspension of disbelief.
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Cory Doctorow Earlier this month, Henrik Moltke helped report the extent to which the massive, windowless, bombproof AT&T tower at 33 Thomas Street was implicated in illegal NSA surveillance of US and… Read the rest of the article: Projecting leaked NSA docs on the side of AT&T's windowless NYC spy-center
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Cory Doctorow The Internet Archive is augmenting its existing mirrors — one in San Francisco, one in Amsterdam, one at the Library of Alexandria (that is: San Andreas fault, below sea level,… Read the rest of the article: The Internet Archive is putting a Trump-resistant mirror of the web in Canada
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Cory Doctorow Charles from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund writes, "CBLDF is raising money to prepare for a busy 2017 this #GivingTuesday by offering exclusive Comics Are For Everybody merchandise created… Read the rest of the article: Good Comic Book Legal Defense Fund gear for #GivingTuesday
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Cory Doctorow Network Time Protocol is how the computers you depend on know what time it is (this is critical to network operations, cryptography, and many other critical functions); NTP software was,… Read the rest of the article: NTP: the rebirth of ailing, failing core network infrastructure