Facts About Fusion Centers Will Blow Your Mind
Cross-posted from The Ohm Project Imagine that somewhere close to your local community there exists a secret computer center. Equipped with powerful mainframe computers and the database integrating...
View ArticleFrom Your Keyboard to the DHS Database
"Deep-packet" snooping by American and European ISPs may present a more serious threat to democracy and freedom of expression than most realize. A Washington Post story over the weekend detailed...
View ArticleConyers Ready to Sell Out Internet Privacy
Democratic Congressman John Conyers and Republicans on his House Judiciary Committee have found common ground on a renewed effort by federal law enforcement officials to require ISPs and other Internet...
View ArticleComing Soon to a Country Near You?
It's called the "Internet real-name system" and it's touted as the perfect antidote to terrorism, child pornography, Internet abuse and fraud. South Korea, where it's been the law since 2005,...
View ArticlePost Editor Brady Wants an End to Internet Anonymity
Washington Post editor Jim Brady wants to put an end to the "back alley environment" on the Internet. His feelings and those of some of his subordinates (in particular, Deborah Howell), have been...
View ArticlePolice State 2.0: It's Here
cross posted at The Ohm Project: an exercise in resistance High resolution cameras covering nearly every inch of public space. National IDs crammed with biometric data. Facial recognition software...
View ArticleAre YOU One of the 8 Million Targeted for Roundup? UPDATE: Brits Amass Giant...
cross posted at The Ohm Project: an exercise in resistance Senior government officials have leaked detailed information about a database of 8 million Americans targeted for detention in case of a...
View Article"And you'll have to leave that laptop with us."
Oh yeah. 9/11 did change everything. Remember the 90s? It was the dawn of an era of globalization and easy, instantaneous movement of information. The hero of this new age was the "road warrior"...
View ArticleJudge Requires YouTube to Turn Over User IP Addresses
For those who need to catch up: Viacom (CBS, Comedy Central) is suing YouTube/Google for $1 billion for facilitating copyright violations when videos (e.g. Daily Show, Colbert, CBS News) are uploaded...
View Article"German police" Shut Down The Ohm Project
[Quick Refresher: The Ohm Project is a site providing information about threats to Internet privacy and freedom along with advice and tips about how to fight back against these encroachments. Last...
View Article"Have You Stopped Beating the [Internet] Consumer?"
cross posted at The Ohm Project (Yes, we're back up thanks to you and Computer Tyme webhosting!) Yesterday's hearings before Rep. Ed Markey's (D-MA) House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the...
View ArticleSkype Gives Cops a Back Door for Eavesdropping
European news sources are picking up confirmation of a long-rumored "back door" in Skype that allows police agencies worldwide to listen in on conversations. Heise Online and Austrian broadcaster ORF...
View ArticleHarvard Magazine: America Sucks
Elizabeth Gudrais, an associate editor of Harvard Magazine, writes in this issue of the slickly produced publication for Harvard alums that: life expectancy is declining for men in more than 50 of...
View ArticleHow to Beat the "Heat:" Anti-Surveillance 101
TeacherKen's diary is yet another reminder of the threat to privacy, security and freedom that we all face. Governments around the world, with the help of multinational corporations, are rapidly...
View ArticleBerlusconi Dispatches Troops to Italian Cities
George Bush's good friend, media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, is back in charge in Italy after a brief center-left interregnum. As a way of implementing the law-and-order platform upon which he regained...
View ArticleWhy Is Bush Expanding Domestic Spy Powers NOW?
The Washington Post reports today: The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share...
View ArticleThe End of American Exceptionalism
Bill Moyers' interview of Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, is a must see/read for Kossacks. It would be nice to see Obama add Bacevich to his list of...
View ArticleWouldn't it be amazing if...
Wouldn't it be amazing if a major party Presidential candidate advocated impeachment proceedings against the current criminal incumbents of the White House? Wouldn't it be amazing if a major party...
View ArticleRe: Droogie--Lessons for Us All
Droogie's run-in with the AP contains lessons for us all in an era when Internet privacy and freedom is under attack by both governments and multinational corporations like the AP. Anyone who keeps a...
View ArticleMcPocalypse Now
I belong to the generation that had school drills for the Big One. Many of us can remember the look of terror in the eyes of our parents as we sat around the TV watching President Kennedy announce the...
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