Spain: Political censorship
30 September 2017
First they came for the ... The slippery slope of censorship, surveillance and oppression expressed through variations of Martin Niemöller's...
Expanding police and surveillance powers across Europe
08 March 2017
In January, two interesting and thorough reports on expanding police and surveillance powers across Europe were published: Amnesty International published a 70 page report which summarizes its research into expanding...
Privacy attacks and government surveillance continue
31 August 2016
At the Symantec Government Symposium on Tuesday, FBI director James Comey said he "can't resist talking about encryption and going dark", and will continue an "adult" discussion into 2017. What's...
The Negative Effects of Lead
19 May 2015
There have been several studies over the last years which investigate the correlation between lead exposure and crime. Just last week, Feigenbaum and Muller (2015) [PDF] published another, looking at...
6 May : International Day Against DRM
06 May 2015
Today has been designated International Day Against DRM. Free Software Foundation Europe has a brief leaflet to print and handout [PDF]. Defective by Design has a campaign and event page,...
Thirty years of GNU
18 March 2015
In a brief and accurate article, The New Yorker commemorates Richard Stallman's work on the GNU project, and the history of the GPL. It was thirty years ago this month...
30 years of GNU
29 September 2013
It's been 30 years since Richard Stallman announced his project to create a free alternative to Unix. The world has changed a lot since then, the Internet had changed and...
Zeitgeist
12 July 2013
zeitgeist: The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time. Source: http://twitpic.com/d279tx
Hollywood Studios Censor Pirate Bay Documentary
21 May 2013
TorrentFreak is reporting that the Creative Commons licensed documentary about The Pirate Bay, "TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard", is being "censored" by several Hollywood studios through DMCA...
Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb
25 April 2013
defectivebydesign.org is organization a petition against DRM in HTML5. With some 16.000 already signed up, the goal is to reach 50.000 by 3 May which marks International Day Against DRM....
Internet Censorship and Fragmentation
24 April 2013
Two Google brass, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen, have co-written an interesting piece on Internet censorship in today's Guardian. They warn that the Internet...
iodine - IP over DNS
24 April 2013
A recent stay in a couple of Germany hotels revealed a few things: First, American cultural imperialism has spun out of control, to the point where hotel receptionists are now...
Mobile lockdown?
19 March 2013
In his insightful piece on Andy Rubin's departure from the helm of the Google Android division, Charles Arthur looks into the future to see what's next for the Android platform....
The fragile cloud
15 March 2013
It was less than two months ago that I echoed John Naughton’s warning that "nothing lasts forever". Naughton was talking about the "empires" of Facebook and Apple, but it is...
DIY Internet - Fiber by Farmers
01 March 2013
The online magazine Motherboard recently ran a feel-good story about a community of British farmers in Lancashire who dug their own ditches to put down Internet fiber. The background was...
The CitizenWeb Project
23 February 2013
At the end of last year, I wrote about DIY "cloud" services; how to get started with your own web server, blog, e-mail server, chat server, VOIP server. Add to...
Buying music online is a bad deal
23 January 2013
An insightful comment by Richard Stallman, originally published in the Guardian: Danny Kelly says good riddance to HMV because it was sickly for some years before it died. I suggest...
Freedom is not a matter of principle
04 January 2013
In today's news, the terms of the Android SDK has changed. However, it seems it was not open source in the first place. What's always interesting though, is the discussion...
The Do-It-Yourself Cloud
30 December 2012
"In the cloud" The buzzword "cloud" seems to be here to stay for quite a lot longer. The problem is that it is rather ill-defined, and sometimes it is used...
4th of July: Higgs boson found, ACTA rejected
04 July 2012
Big news today: The scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern could report today that they have observed a particle that is very likely to be the previously only...
FSF on Secure Boot
04 July 2012
There has been a lot of heated discussion about the upcoming Restricted/Secure Boot requirement from Microsoft for its new Windows 8 OS, and how it will be implemented in the...