Wired News: Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
Mark Klein, a former AT&T employee, has helped the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in it’s lawsuit against the telecom giant. Considering the possible scope of the federal government’s eavesdropping program, I think it’s time to start using strong encryption everywhere possible. If what this guy says is true, I sure hope there will be some consequences for the Bush administration. More information on the progess of the lawsuit can be found here.
Wired News: Reasons to Love Open-Source DRM
I don’t know if I’d agree with the title of the above article. Perhaps “Reasons to hate DRM less” would be more accurate. I don’t see this taking off unless either Microsoft or Apple backs it, but it’s a neat idea.
Due to a few jerks that keep comment spamming my site, I’m now moderating all comments. You don’t have to register, but you may have to wait to see the comments you post. I’ve just deleted the spam up until now, but it’s really starting to get on my nerves. As a warning to any would be spammers, I’ll be permanently banning the IPs of anyone submitting comment spam to this site, so you’ve been warned.