How the mighty have fallen

June 3rd, 2008
New Venezuela law allows warrantless wiretapping and manipulation of the judicial process to favor the government over the rights of the accused. Good thing we live in America, where that would never, ever happen. Right, guys? Guys?

Link.

Well said

April 14th, 2008

Banksy grafitti

Anonymity and Anonymous Sources

April 11th, 2007

Tried to leave a comment on this blog post. Even though it asks for my name, email, and url, it tells me I can’t enter a url and have to log in, anyway. So why not say that before I type my comment?

Here’s what I wrote:

regarding people being anonymous “as cover for saying things you’d never otherwise offer”: Do you think newspapers should stop using anonymous sources, or do you at least think anonymity can sometimes be useful?

Tor Map Project

February 24th, 2007

I’ve been working on a map of Tor nodes. You can find it here.

It’s still a work in progress, but you can get an idea of where it’s headed.

Cost of Free Speech

January 30th, 2004

Interesting post to apas. Says very well what I’ve been saying to people for a long time: It’s not popular speech that needs protecting.

Cost of Free Speech

January 30th, 2004

Interesting post to apas. Says very well what I’ve been saying to people for a long time: It’s not popular speech that needs protecting.

Cost of Free Speech

January 30th, 2004

Interesting post to apas. Says very well what I’ve been saying to people for a long time: It’s not popular speech that needs protecting.

US Privacy Laws don’t work overseas

October 23rd, 2003

Something to keep in mind when outsourcing work.

A tough lesson on medical privacy / Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay

A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients’ confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money.To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail earlier this month with actual patients’ records attached.