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Attacking responsible journalists will only lead to more irresponsible disclosures 20 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
It's hard to see the detention of David Miranda and seizure of his data or the arrival of GCHQ spooks at a national newspaper's offices to witness the destruction of hard disks as anything other than ...
Equip children to deal with the web, threats and all 6 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
When a teenager takes their own life it's bloody awful... Noteworthy is that the bullying allegedly happened not on Twitter - a company in the press at the moment for their "lack of action" over abuse...
The usability recession 26 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Back in the 80's, life for technophiles was pretty frustrating. Just loading a game on a home computer such as a ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 would take around 5 minutes. Games were stored on cassett...
Extracting Snowden 4 Jul 2013 | 01:42 pm
A single tweeter is claiming Edward Snowden has left Russia on board a diplomatic jet. #BREAKING Moscow eye sources: #Snowden no longer in Moscow. Spotted escorted on diplomatic Gulf-stream jet @ap_p...
Q. Where are we without clear ground rules? A. We are where we are now - and that frightens me. 3 Jul 2013 | 04:45 pm
Once you realise there are no rules it all makes sense! — Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP (@JimHacker) July 1, 2013 But where are we heading in a world without clear rules? In a world where men are detained a...
So the entire internet is tapped - let's put the power to good use and keep spies too busy to do evil 2 Jul 2013 | 08:32 pm
The frightening thing about the revelation that practically the entire internet is tapped is not the capacity for governments to enforce the law (crime, terrorism) but for them to use this power to af...
Timezones and sloppy journalism: why I have much sympathy for Alec Baldwin 28 Jun 2013 | 06:12 pm
Alec Baldwin had a twitter meltdown over an accusation that his wife Hilaria was tweeting during James Gandolfini's funeral, and I have a lot of sympathy for him. What appears to have happened is tha...
Support UK justice 28 Jun 2013 | 02:50 pm
I just signed a petition after receiving the following email: The odd scandal here and there, the UK has one of the fairest legal systems in the world, and much of that is down to our legal aid syste...
The Bastard of Convenity 26 Jun 2013 | 04:51 pm
Empirically it is clear we can have incredible convenience, or we can have tight digital security, but not both. This bastard of convenity - the child of security and convenience - sets a maximum for...
Don't even bother asking governments not to spy on us 25 Jun 2013 | 03:44 pm
Electronic privacy is dead, now let's deal with the aftermath Unlike most other technological innovations - particularly advancements in communication and mass media - for a relatively brief period t...
