Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess * https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/ Encrypting your laptop demystified * http://boingboing.net/2015/04/27/encrypting-your-laptop-demysti.html#more-382920 drones: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/ramstein/ a wage and hour lawyers who is suing uber over worker misclassification http://fusion.net/story/118401/meet-the-lawyer-taking-on-uber-and-the-on-demand-economy/ the internet is a public place: http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150417/1021043337.html well done website helping people figure out if their student loans could […]

Machinations and Manipulations: Bots, Big Data, and the Internet of Things an event that happened today at the the Open Society Foundation Philip N. Howard is a professor of technology and international affairs at Central European University and the University of Washington. A discussion of his latest book, Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things […]

GOP bill would invalidate FCC’s net neutrality rules – http://www.computerworld.com/article/2909220/gop-bill-would-invalidate-fccs-net-neutrality-rules.html June 2014 report from the ACLU on stingrays: https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/StingRays_The_Most_Common_Surveillance_Tool_the_Govt_Won%27t_Tell_You_About_0.pdf anti-patriot act coalition website: https://fight215.org/ imsi catcher detector put up on github: https://prism-break.org/en/projects/android-imsi-catcher-detector-aimsicd/ other links: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/crypto-privacy-village-heading-tribeca-film-festival funding of nypd surveilance: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/13/documents-suggest-uae-funding-nypd-intelligence-operations/ recent eff case on imsi catchers: https://www.eff.org/cases/us-marshals-airborne-imsi-catchers eff’s 2014 round up on stingrays: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/2014-review-stingrays-go-mainstream podcast patent win: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-busts-podcasting-patent-invalidating-key-claims-patent-office   Florida 8th-grader’s prank […]

  xkcd.com   Operating Systems Gizmodo 200+ Your Keyboard Could Tell If You Have Parkinson’s An everyday technology is becoming the central figure in how scientists understand and diagnose Parkinson’s—the keyboard. Researchers at MIT are working on a method that would create keyboards that could actually tell whether you have this unfortunately common neuron impairment.It’s all […]