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Archive for February, 2007

Eroding privacy

A professor at a US university is harassed for using TOR and teaching students how onion routing can be useful. Because obviously, you can’t have people making it near impossible for the government to keep tabs on your online activity. Privacy is unconstitutional, war is peace and up is down.
Meanwhile, neuroscientists warn that new high resolution brain […]

The cleansing of New Orleans

There are two things we can learn from the new New Orleans phone book. First of all, the number of residents, at least those that have a phone, is down considerably. Furthermore, the new residents that are replacing the cleansed are apparently more posh as they can afford Lasik surgery. And so the vultures move in.

Setting a new tone for US politics

I do not have high hopes when it comes to the American system fixing itself and so I do not pay that much attention. Plus it’s hard to care when the hoopla starts nearly two years before the actual election. But last week’s massive disinformation campaign involving presidential hopeful Barack Obama does nevertheless merit a […]





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