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Any Revolution Can Be Repurposed
In fact this memorial to one — involving three days of killing in Paris over free speech for the press and a death sentence for blasphemy — has been: The July Column in the Place de la Bastille in...
View ArticleHow To Safeguard Surveillance Laws
This letter was published in the London Evening Standard on January 12th, 2015: I watch with alarm as, in the wake of the barbaric murders in France, politicians seek increased surveillance powers for...
View ArticleLegislating For Unicorns
☞ When Julian Huppert MP (Lib-Dem) asked the Home Secretary Theresa May MP (Con) if banning encryption – as the Prime Minister had been interpreted as saying – is “genuinely what the Home Secretary...
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Who Else Listens To Your TV?
Samsung’s Smart TV listens to everything you say all the time you have voice control enabled. No surprise there. But Samsung’s Terms warn that it’s likely to be sending all that audio to a service...
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Blocking The Fields
There are people walking over the beautiful spring meadows. Most are just enjoying the beauty of it all, but some are going visiting to each other’s houses. Of those, you discover one or two of them...
View ArticleAzure Loves Linux; What About Microsoft?
The news that Red Hat and Microsoft have reached an agreement about hosting Linux is very welcome. I am delighted for Red Hat here, and see this as a huge sign of the continuing power and growth of...
View ArticleJoining A Community Means Accepting Its Norms
The progress of Microsoft towards acceptance into the open source community continues. The Azure team is definitely a force for good in the company, constantly pushing Microsoft’s developer teams to...
View ArticleRoot-causing regulatory failure
The European Parliament’s JURI committee passed on Wednesday a deeply flawed proposed amendment to the copyright directive that could break the Internet for almost everyone. It is just the latest in a...
View ArticleState Of The Rat Technology
While we’re on the subject of mandatory filtering, here’s the sort of technology we are talking about in action: The original State Of The Rat Technology: Twitter censored my hairless rat again...
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Rat Redux
It’s been a while since we discussed state of the rat filtering technology, but some examples recently need to go on list. Machines understand exactly what your child should know:...
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