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Cory Doctorow / 10:14 am Tue, Sep 20, 2016

Web's inventor and MIT prof explain ICANN to Ted Cruz, using small words

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a corporation that manages one of the critical, centralized pieces of the internet's underlying infrastructure, the domain name system's root. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 7:39 am Tue, Feb 2, 2016

Swatting attempted against Congresswoman who introduced anti-swatting bill

Late last year, Katherine Clark [D-MA] introduced a bill that specifically criminalized swatting (tricking the police into thinking that there's an armed standoff in your victim's home in order to get them to swarm it with guns blazing); late Sunday night, someone tried to swat her. Read the rest