happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
happy mutants Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises Cory Doctorow
spooks Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada Cory Doctorow
security Smart Grid consortium rolled its own crypto, which is always, always a bad idea Cory Doctorow
Science Somebody attacked an electrical substation in California last year. This should make you concerned. Maggie Koerth