John Robb: Darknet Creating Global Mesh Network

The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network By Ryan Paul A group of Internet activists gathered last week in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel to begin planning an ambitious project—they hope to overcome electronic surveillance and censorship by creating a whole new Internet. The group, which coordinates its efforts through the …

Reference: The Privatization [Corruption] of Democracy – Honoring & Documenting the Work of Eva Waskell

I am honored that Eva Waskell has entrusted me to present The Privatization of Our Democracy, a work that I regard as her Profile in Courage. For 25 years she has labored to correct what is possibly the most significant public policy failure of the computer age—the privatization of vote counting carried out under the …