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By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security
By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security One of the biggest debates happening at the intersection of technology and privacy at the moment revolves around the U.S. government’s fear that the American peasantry may gain access to strong encryption in order to protect their private communications. Naturally, this isn’t something Big Brother wants […]
The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone And Everything Will Be Monitored On The Internet
The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone And Everything Will Be Monitored On The Internet Can you imagine a world where your home, your vehicles, your appliances and every single electronic device that you own is constantly connected to the Internet? This is not some grand vision that is being planned for some […]
Heroes and Villains
Heroes and Villains The poet W.B. Yeats was right in 1919 when he said the center cannot hold, as if, following the first great industrial slaughter of modern times, he discovered the lethal vacuum at the center of modernity itself. There was a lot to be nervous about after the First World War. And right […]
Snowden Calls for Disobedience Against the U.S. Government
Snowden Calls for Disobedience Against the U.S. Government In a question and answer session on Reddit earlier today, Edward Snowden wrote: The progress of Western civilization and human rights is actually founded on the violation of law. America was of course born out of a violent revolution that was an outrageous treason against the crown and […]
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the age […]
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the […]
A Very Slippery Slope – Yes, Your Samsung Smart TV Can Listen to Your Private Conversations
A Very Slippery Slope – Yes, Your Samsung Smart TV Can Listen to Your Private Conversations The biggest story in the tech world today is the revelation that Samsung’s Smart TV can and will listen to your conversations, and will share the details with a third party. Yes, you read that right. Here’s the actual language from […]
CANADA CASTS GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DRAGNET OVER FILE DOWNLOADS
CANADA CASTS GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DRAGNET OVER FILE DOWNLOADS Canada’s leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users’ file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. The covert operation, revealed Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept, taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily […]
Bill C-51 aims to ‘remove terrorist propaganda’ from internet
Bill C-51 aims to ‘remove terrorist propaganda’ from internet Free speech, privacy concerns raised about anti-terrorism bill’s internet clauses The anti-terrorism bill unveiled Friday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper includes a section that gives his government the power “to order the removal of terrorist propaganda” from the internet. That would still require a judicial order, […]
