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• EFF sets sights on abusive EULAs

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  The Electronic Frontier Foundations new Terms Of (Ab)Use project tracks news, litigation and fights related to abusive terms of service, EULAs and other electronic flimflam. Nows a good time to mention once again my own EULA, which I put at the bottom of my emails: "READ CAREFULLY. By reading this email, you agree, ...
  3 days ago

• Friday Lazy Linking

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops. Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing (2009-11-18) . Autumn sez, "DJs at local underground parties have been losing their laptops to police raids - even when theyre not DJing. Theyre being told that theyll lose their laptops - and often their livelihood - for an ...
  1 week ago

• Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  An article in The American Journal of Forensic Medical Pathology entitled "Use of a pig model to demonstrate vulnerability of major neck vessels to inflicted trauma from common household items" describes all the ways you can stab people with stuff youre allowed to take through airport security, like pens and plastic ...
  1 week ago

• EFF analyzes the legal creepiness of ACTA, the secret copyright treaty

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  The Electronic Frontier Foundations international policy crimefighting duo, Eddan Katz and Gwen Hinze, have published a scholarly article analyzing the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in light of US law and policy. Called "The Impact of ACTA on the Knowledge Economy," it was recently published in the Yale ...
  1 week ago

• Maricopa deputy steals defenders paperwork during a court case

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Tom sends us video of a Maricopa County Sheriffs Deputy named Adam Stoddard stealing a public defenders paperwork, during a court proceeding, in front of the courts security camera. Tom adds, "The local news clip is really worth seeing, if only for the reporters incredulous lead-in: The Maricopa County Sheriffs ...
  1 week ago

• SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Autumn sez, "DJs at local underground parties have been losing their laptops to police raids - even when theyre not DJing. Theyre being told that theyll lose their laptops - and often their livelihood - for an indefinite period of time, with no information on when or how to get their property back. The EFF has taken ...
  1 week ago

• Infographic: Projected pot tax revenues

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Heres an infographic from Slosh Spot that shows how popular pot is, how many people are arrested for possessing it, how much tax revenue it could generate if it were legal, and how much is spent fighting drug use. If Marijuana Production Were Legal: Projected Tax Revenues, by State(Via Dosenation)
  1 week ago

• Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Apples filed a patent on a design for a device that wont let its owner use it unless that person demonstrates that she has complied with an advertisers demands by paying attention to an ad and taking some action indicating her dutiful attention. Its amazing how many of these vendors fail to understand Chekhovs first ...
  1 week ago

• UN goons destroy academic poster describing Chinas censorwall

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  JZ sez, "The OpenNet Initiative, a joint effort of U. Torontos Citizen Lab and Harvards Berkman Center, tracks Internet filtering by governments around the world. We published a book detailing such filtering in 2008 called Access Denied, and the sequel is about to come out, called Access Controlled. ONI colleagues ...
  1 week ago

• TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  The TSA says you cant carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they cant measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water. TSA, meet Archimedes. He lived over 2,000 years ago and figured out how to calculate ...
  2 weeks ago

• HOWTO kill wiretaps when making a phone call

  
  Offworld — Authority: 107
  CALEA is the terrible US federal law that requires that all switches that carry voice-traffic be built with an easy-to-access remote wiretapping capability so that cops (or bad guys who know cop secrets) can listen in on your voice conversations without cooperation from the phone company. A team of University of ...
  2 weeks ago

• EFF lawyers grin like holy fools, surrounded by a fan of formerly secret government documents

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Followers of Boing Boing will know that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been battling in court to force the US government to disclose documents related to the illegal mass wiretapping that the phone companies and Uncle Sam engaged in as part of the "war on terror." Now the government has blinked, and EFF has ...
  2 weeks ago

• McDonalds Gitmo is hiring!

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Joe sez, "The McDonalds franchise at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba is looking for an assistant manager. The ideal candidate will have previous restaurant management experience, a valid U.S. passport and a willingness to relocate to Cuba. Apparently, no special security clearance is required. Perks include ...
  2 weeks ago

• EFF to represent Yes Men in Chamber of Commerce lawsuit

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "More news about the Yes Men and the Chamber of Commerce. BoingBoing reported on the lawsuit the Chamber filed over the activists political criticism of the Chambers stance on climate change and the Chambers DMCA takedown attempt. Now its official: EFF and Davis ...
  2 weeks ago

• How EFF saved Indymedia from an unconstitutional subpoena for all its visitors IP addresses

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  When the US government demanded the IP address of every visitor to Indymedias website (and ordered Indymedia to keep the request secret), Indymedia called the Electronic Frontier Foundation. EFF fought the subpoena -- which was grossly unconstitutional -- and won. Heres the story of how it happened, and remember, if ...
  2 weeks ago

• TSA doesnt understand what "random" means

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Deirdre Walker, the 24-year police veteran and former Assistant Chief of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Department of Police who wrote up a sharp, professional critique of the TSAs checkpoint procedures, has written a follow-up, showing a huge flaw in the "random" screening process used at the BWI airport: I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Guido Núñez-Mujica, a 26-year-old Boing Boing reader in Venezuela who is an avid gamer, writes in with this extensive personal observation piece about a new law that widely criminalizes video games in the South American country. As you read the piece, please also bear in mind that publishing this sort of thing under ...
  3 weeks ago

• Iran: blogger Hossein "Hoder" Derakshan confirmed in prison, details of treatment emerge.

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Yesterday marked exactly one year since Iranian blogger Hossein "Hoder" Derakhshan was arrested. Cyrus Farivar has been covering the story on his blog and in various news outlets. He posts an update today, after a Skype chat with Hossein Derakhshans brother, Hamed Derakhshan (who lives in an undisclosed country). We ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  From Robert Arthurs blog, Narco Polo.An excerpt from The New Prohibition: Voices of Dissent Challenge the Drug War, the book that includes Richard Macks story: Ted and I were different. He smoked, he drank, at times he used marijuana, and his morals were not in line with my Mormon background. But he was a good man. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Speaking in Cambridge, Sheffield this week

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Im giving two talks in the UK this week -- the first in Cambridge, as part of the Arcadia Seminar, held at Robinson College; the second is at Sheffield, as part of the DocFest premiere of RIP: A Remix Manifesto, a documentary on copyfighting and art that features some interviews with me. Hope to see you at them! ...
  3 weeks ago

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