This is the first of three posts wrapping up my experiences with Google Summer of Code 2008 and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Although it had nothing to do with my main project proposal, Linkovbot does use the same NLP software and I did write it to give myself a break from reading too much […]
I’m sort of embarrassed that I’ve been using GMail for a while now. I rally for data privacy and yet I let a large company house all of my personal communications? That’s a bit hypocritical.
My solution, at least until I can find something more suitable, is to use the FireGPG extension for Firefox. Now, you […]
I’m going to the HOPE conference in NYC tomorrow through Sunday. If anybody is going and wants to meet up, drop me a comment or an email and we’ll sort something out!
I’m tentatively scheduled to give a demo of the Anomos protocol in the General Demo Area on the mezzanine at 1300 on Sunday, you […]
My school recently had an election for the student government body. The site looked pretty shoddy so I checked the source and played around with TamperData to see what was up. I noticed that the generated voting page had hidden Student UID and Name values hidden, and I wanted to check if those were the […]
Jello Biafra at HOPE
I’ve read about this but never seen it before. Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys moons the spooks at the HOPE conference. Anybody got the full video?
(tags: jellobiafra, HOPE, privacy)
House Rejects Telecom Immunity as FISA Clock Ticks Down
Well goddamn. This might turn into which is more important for the administration, immunity or […]
Illegal downloaders ‘face UK ban’
Not sure if this will happen, but the fact that they’re considering it so thoroughly is proof of corruption.
(tags: p2p, uk, isp, internetban)
Senate Approves Surveillance Bill, Preserves Telecom Immunity
Government gets companies to break the law for them, then retroactively protects them to protect itself. Institutionalized corruption in effect.
(tags: corruption, telecom, politics)
Freedomain […]
Textbook Torrents - The Free Textbook Tracker
A torrent site for textbooks! Finally, I’m so glad somebody did this. It doesn’t have the same spirit as OCW programs which are ultimately better, but goddamn. Fuck spending five hundred dollars a semester on books.
(tags: textbooktorrents, p2p, bittorrent, books, education)
STEIM Project Blog » Blog Archive » Phil Stearns / AANN :: a STEIM residency project report ::
AANN! A massively complicated physical neural network.
(tags: neuralnetwork, ai, sculpture)
Pirate Bay Admins Charged with Assisting Copyright Infringement | TorrentFreak
We all saw this coming, but the good boys at TPB say the site will remain up, no matter what. […]
Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the Protect America Act
Formal, well sourced criticisms of a new potential wiretap bill.
(tags: upenn, columbia, protectamericaact, 1984)
It’s time to overhaul copyright law | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Cory Doctorow’s new piece about copyright overhaul.
(tags: CoryDoctorow, copyright, freeculture, boingboing)
The New Freedom
This is my website. I write about privacy and internet and encryption and free culture and digital politics and that sort of thing.
(tags: piracy, freedom, internet, cryptoanarchy, encryption, freeculture, p2p)
Howard Berman (D-CA) to step down, leave Internet and IP issues behind
I fucking hate this guy. Hopefully he’ll be replaced by somebody young and […]
