One year ago today
Why you should care about surveillance: We’re bad at privacy because the consequences of privacy disclosures are separated by a lot of time and space from the disclosures themselves. It’s like trying to get good at cricket by swinging the bat, closing your eyes before you see where the ball is headed, and then being told, months later, somewhere else, where the ball went. So of course we’re bad at privacy: almost all our privacy disclosures do no harm, and some of them cause grotesque harm, but when this happens, it happens so far away from the disclosure that we can’t learn from it.
Five years ago today
Lawsuit Against Former Bush Official Over Torture Claims Can Proceed: [L]awyers for the man suing Mr. Yoo, Jose Padilla, say it provides substantive interpretation of constitutional issues for all detainees and could have a broad impact.
Ten years ago today
Boing Boing 2.0: Welcome to the new and improved Boing Boing, now with sponsors! Seriously, there’s nothing wrong with your set. The only real difference you’ll find on the page, besides a cleaner design, is the addition of those small ad boxes on the sides.