I watched a documentary about North Korea which explained how the government there assigns a score to each citizen, based on how large a threat … Police are Calculating Your ‘Threat Score’ to Decide How to Treat YouRead more
Surveillance
Why privacy is important
The governments of Australia, Germany, the UK and the US are destroying your privacy. Some people don’t see the problem… “I have nothing to hide, … Why privacy is importantRead more
UK mass surveillance ‘totalitarian’ and will ‘cost lives’
Planned surveillance laws in the UK are “totalitarian” and the bulk collection of people’s data makes people “more vulnerable” to terrorist attacks, a National Security … UK mass surveillance ‘totalitarian’ and will ‘cost lives’Read more
Iconic Singer Was Spied on for Decades
Pete Seeger, musical, political icon who helped create modern American folk music. Seeger wrote some of most the defining songs of the 20th century peace … Iconic Singer Was Spied on for DecadesRead more
Microsoft testing Skype integration with Aadhaar
Microsoft Corporation on Thursday said it was working towards integrating Aadhaar as a factor of authentication with its video-calling service Skype. “We have embraced this … Microsoft testing Skype integration with AadhaarRead more
The next version of the web has a message for the NSA
The language of the web is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and like a lot of really important technology it’s actually more than a little, … The next version of the web has a message for the NSARead more
HTTP/2 opens every new connection it makes with the word ‘PRISM’
British programmer and writer John Graham-Cumming has spotted something interesting in the opening protocol of any HTTP/2 connection: an array of explicitly formatted code which … HTTP/2 opens every new connection it makes with the word ‘PRISM’Read more
The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connection
If you spy on an HTTP/2 connection starting up you’ll notice that it sends an almost-but-not-quite valid HTTP request at the very start of the … The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connectionRead more
FBI Releases Pete Seeger’s 1,800-Page FBI File
And the FBI has released its extensive file on the late legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger. The file, obtained by Mother Jones through … FBI Releases Pete Seeger’s 1,800-Page FBI FileRead more