Copyfight Radical expansion of Australia's national firewall will censor search results and websites Cory Doctorow

Business Thailand is losing the war on dissent, thanks to user notifications and HTTPS Cory Doctorow

happy mutants BBC launches a Tor hidden service mirror to help people evade their countries' censoring firewalls Cory Doctorow

security The voting machines that local officials swore were not connected to the internet have been connected to the internet for years Cory Doctorow

censorship French officials call Project Gutenberg archive, 15 million ebooks, Grateful Dead recordings and Prelinger Archive "terrorism," demands removal from Internet Archive Cory Doctorow

Science New Scientist calls for the end of the scholarly publishing industry: "more profitable than oil," "indefensible" Cory Doctorow

Gadgets To Protect and Server: The tale of the tape on two top VPNs Boing Boing's Shop

censorship Wickr announces a firewall-circumventing tool to help beat national censorship regimes Cory Doctorow

web theory China has perfected the internet control playbook and now it's exporting it to the world Cory Doctorow

Business Governments all over the world buy spy products that let them track and eavesdrop on global cellphones, especially US phones Cory Doctorow

web theory Amazon orders Signal to stop using AWS to defeat censorship Cory Doctorow

politics FBI, DHS, and UK cyber agency warn of Russia internet attack that targets routers Xeni Jardin

surveillance Property of the People sues the FBI for details on "Gravestone," its reassuringly named secret mass-surveillance tool Cory Doctorow

censorship Web's inventor and MIT prof explain ICANN to Ted Cruz, using small words Cory Doctorow

security The NSA's program of tech sabotage created the Shadow Brokers Cory Doctorow

Copyfight EFF is suing the US government to invalidate the DMCA's DRM provisions Cory Doctorow