Boing Boing Gadgets Crowdfunder for a free/open phone crosses $1M mark Cory Doctorow

floss Ian "Debian" Murdock dies after threatening suicide Cory Doctorow

politics Facebook removing Linux discussions as security threats Rob Beschizza

gadgets Mecha Comet is a handheld everything machine Rob Beschizza

Internet Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network Rob Beschizza

security Happy 10th birthday, TAILS — the real Paranoid Linux! Cory Doctorow

events To do in Boston Mar 23/24: The Free Software Foundation's Libreplanet conference Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Remembering the wild days of IRC on its 30th birthday Cory Doctorow

language Reviving the Independence of Cyberspace Sean O'Brien

floss F-Droid: A free, open, privacy-oriented Android app store that corrects Android's "original sin" Cory Doctorow

law Italy unveils a legal proposal to regulate government hacking Fabio Pietrosanti and Stefano Aterno

security The Tor Project's social contract: we will not backdoor Tor Cory Doctorow

floss Software Heritage: Creating a safe haven for software Paul Brown, Free Software Foundation Europe

Mars How far away is Mars? Rob Beschizza