The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.
McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate [...]

How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent by Jesse Walker on Reason.com

On June 10, 2009, an elderly man entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, raised a rifle, and opened fire, killing a security guard named Stephen Tyrone Johns. Two other guards shot back, wounding the gunman before he [...]

L’auteur du sketch “Seven dirty words” parlant des sept mots que l’on ne peut pas dire à la télévision – Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits – est mort récemment d’une crise de coeur à l’âge de 71 ans. Il a d’ailleurs fini devant la cours suprême en 1978 et suite à cette [...]