Stephen E. Arnold: DuckDuckGo Clobbering Google Goose – Robert Steele Comments

The Duck Is Gaining Over the Google Goose July 5, 2013 Remember the old child game “duck duck goose?” It is now time to play “duck duck Google” with the top search engine chasing DuckDuckGo around in a circle. The privacy-based search engine may still end up being in the metaphorical pot, but Search Engine …

Rickard Falkvinge: NSA is Stasi Scaled Global + Naked NSA RECAP

Stasi vs. The NSA Back To Back: Who’s Worse – A Visual Guide Privacy:  If you were to compare the evil, reprehensible Stasi to the NSA side by side in a visual comparison, who’s the worse surveillance hawk? The people over at OpenDataCity have put together a nice visual guide with astonishing results. We tend …

Congressional Research Service — Index Frozen 2 JUNE 2015

NOTICE: We are suspending our update of this index. All CRS reports will continue to be offered at the Federation of American Scientists, and updated as new version are received, but we will not longer maintain this separate index.   Updated FAS new 2 June 2015. All links lead to Federation of American Scientists (FAS) …

Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 63, June 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 63, June 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Free Software Foundation statement on PRISM revelations A second FSF-certified device from ThinkPenguin: long-range USB Wifi adapter with Atheros chip April’s English translation team is recruiting volunteers MediaGoblin 0.4.0: Hall of the Archivist Announcing the newest fully free GNU/Linux distribution: LibreWRT FSF polo shirts have …

Mike Lofgren: The Sleep of Reason Breeds Monsters – the Failure of American Public Institutions Enabled by the Collapse of American Public Intelligence

The Authoritarian Seduction “The sleep of reason breeds monsters.” -Francisco Goya The Gallup organization has released yet another dog-bites-man opinion poll which found that Americans’ confidence in Congress has fallen to a record low of 10 percent. This result is a continuation of a decades-long trend of declining approval ratings for Congress, and is justifiable …

Berto Jongman: Humans, Data, & Spies — What Manner, What Value, Integrity?

Data, meet spies: The unfinished state of Web crypto Many large Web companies have failed to adopt a decades-old encryption technology to safeguard confidential user communications. Google is a rare exception, and Facebook is about to follow suit. Declan McCullagh June 26, 2013 Revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance abilities have highlighted shortcomings in …