LibrePlanet Interlude
LibrePlanet 2010 came and went last month and I was lucky enough to attend. It was a nice little conference and I had a lot of great conversations with people about the issues we’ve been talking about...
View ArticleSuggested Diaspora
In response to Luis’s post from yesterday. Suggestions for the diaspora developers. Build less. What we need is a tool for making connections with other people and a social firewall to manage what...
View ArticleFreedom Box Schematic
I had planned to spend this post performing an impossible task; I was going to tell you how to put together the freedom box out of existing parts. As recent discussions have shown, there are as many...
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Guruplug Server
My new Guruplug, the second generation of that plug computer Eben and I keep talking about, just made it to me. Here are the two of them side by side. The guru plug is the smaller black one. The...
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Freedom Box: Look and Feel
Since the beginning of this Freedom Box series back in March, I’ve talked a lot about infrastructure and very little about what the interface is actually going to look like. I saved this portion for...
View ArticlePrivacy in context
The following is an email I sent to my father who recently read this piece at The Atlantic (The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC’s New Approach to Privacy), which is all about...
View ArticleCracking the NSA’s Code
If you have heard anything about the NSA this month, you have heard grand statements and sweeping generalizations. More than likely you have heard a whole gallery of commentators try and relate the...
View ArticleCracking the NSA’s Code: Part 2
Yesterday we looked at how the NSA collects raw data from fiber optic cables and uses that to build an index of “metadata” that maps nearly all communications in the country going back to 2001. Today...
View ArticleCracking the NSA’s Code: Part 3
So far this week we have looked at two of the three main components of the NSA’s surveillance system: how the NSA collects raw data from fiber optic cables and uses that to build an index of “metadata”...
View ArticleCracking the NSA’s code: Part4. The End
This week we have looked at the three main elements of the NSA’s surveillance system: Bulk data collection and the construction of an index for all communications in the country, use of private...
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