Technology Google and other tech giants want Hong Kong alternative after U.S. blocks undersea cable Xeni Jardin

eff The EFF says public WIFI isn't so bad any more Jason Weisberger

History alt.interoperability.adversarial Cory Doctorow

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

surveillance Vodafone sources claim Huawei created a "backdoor" for its home routers and network switching equipment and then lied about removing it Cory Doctorow

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

Cloud Based Games Google Stadia sounds like a bad idea Jason Weisberger

Gadgets Epson is teaching the internet not to install security updates Cory Doctorow

class war Chinese students, made to study Communism, are rising up for workers' rights Cory Doctorow

nsa Which windowless American buildings are secret AT&T/NSA listening posts? Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Washington State lawmaker thinks the courts will uphold state Net Neutrality law because the FCC abdicated its duty Cory Doctorow

politics A Fresh Voice for San Francisco Shahid Buttar

surveillance West coast jurisdictions advance community oversight of police surveillance Shahid Buttar

authoritarianism For one year, the internet in a town in Bahrain has been switched off every day Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Donate to support GnuPG, the backbone of email privacy and security Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Java is better when you're coding with it, not drinking it Boing Boing's Shop

security A year later, no action from Chinese company whose insecure PVRs threaten all internet users Cory Doctorow

corruption America's spooks want Congress to extend massive spying powers but still won't answer Congress's basic questions Cory Doctorow

trumpism Freaked out about Trump's assault on net neutrality? Come work for EFF on keeping the net free and open Cory Doctorow

snowden Real-world whistleblowing vs Malcolm Gladwell's bizarre theory of whistleblowing Cory Doctorow