Technology Canadian Intelligence warns against buying tech from state-owned companies Seamus Bellamy

spies among us Look at this goverment spy truck disguised as a Google Streetview car Mark Frauenfelder

spycraft Here's the everyday-carry for Australian cyberspies in China Mark Frauenfelder

security CIA secretly owned world's top encryption supplier, read enemy and ally messages for decades Xeni Jardin

Copyfight China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization Cory Doctorow

uk UK government is using child spies Seamus Bellamy

china How China grabbed NSA hacking tools and used them to attack U.S. allies Xeni Jardin

infosec A detailed technical rebuttal of Bloomberg's "backdoored servers" article Cory Doctorow

trump White House Chief of Staff in a rage after leak reveals that Trump congratulated Putin against Cabinet advice Cory Doctorow

Business Just because Cambridge Analytica tells its customers it can sway elections, it doesn't follow that they're any good at it Cory Doctorow

fake news A Royal werewolf, embattled Clintons, and vampires coming, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

leaks The guy in charge of protecting American spies who blow the whistle on corruption just got frog-marched out of his office and suspended Cory Doctorow

novels Interview with Ken Follet about forthcoming 3rd book in Kingsbridge series: A Column of Fire Mark Frauenfelder

futurism A great look back at Soviet futurism Andrea James

corruption Leaked FBI manual reveals agency targets innocents as informants, blackmails them into cooperating, can deport them afterwards Cory Doctorow

security Moral panic: Japanese girls risk fingerprint theft by making peace-signs in photographs Cory Doctorow

uk In Africa, British spies target allied leaders, executives, and telcoms engineers Cory Doctorow

media This week in the bloids Peter Sheridan

corruption Panama Papers reveal offshore companies were bagmen for the world's spies Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Listen: Bruce Sterling's "Black Swan (a cyberpunk story)" Cory Doctorow