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privacy The top FBI lawyer who tried to force Apple to backdoor its crypto now says working crypto is essential to public safety and national security Cory Doctorow

art New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital tools in our "image-soaked culture" Cory Doctorow

floss Hide and seek: A catalog of useful steganography tools Cory Doctorow

security Dark markets have evolved to use encrypted messengers and dead-drops Cory Doctorow

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fake news UFOs invade Arctic, John the Baptist’s sandals, and worms from hell, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn

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corruption Trump Organization to Congress: Upholding the Constitution "diminishes the experience of our brand" Cory Doctorow