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I love it when multinational companies get upset at you if you have more than 4 neurons working at any given time…. SunnComm won’t sue over Shift key Nope, I didn’t lie. Neither did CNet or Wired. SunnComm, who berated a university student who found a single key depression work around to an apparently not … Continue reading Punishment for being smart
Rush to Judgement? As reported in this space earlier, Rush Limbaugh has checked himself into rehab after being caught red-handed popping pills he obtained from multiple sources, including celebrity groupie doctors and his own maid. I always wondered why they called him "Rush"…. "The nation’s top-rated talk-radio host said his experience with painkillers – which … Continue reading too good to be true?
Passenger Profiling Violates Rights, Doesn’t Improve Safety Passenger Profiling Violates Rights, Doesn’t Improve Safety“We’re concerned that the Homeland Security Department’s CAPPS II plan sacrifices the privacy and civil liberties of travelers without a logical connection to safety and security,” said EFF Attorney Kevin Bankston. [EFF: Press] [EFF: Press]
Not everyone, I believe, knows what I’ve known for years: librarians are on the very front lines of defense for computer privacy rights. They always have been, since the earliest days in the 1980’s when it became at all practical for the general user to access what is now called the Internet. Check out the … Continue reading time to stand up
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