• “If Britain wants to censor foreign content, it can build a great firewall just like all the other tin pot dictatorships” | The Online Safety Act as seen from the USA…

  2025/08/26

• Age Verification chills key political speech & satire; this will be interesting when the UK voting age drops to 16

  2025/07/24

• “…the president is frustrated with his staff’s inability to tamp down conspiracy theories they once spread…” | Perhaps it wasn’t wise to build a political base of fearful, dogmatic, uncritical dependant conformists to whom you lie about everything

  2025/07/23

• Reality bites the UK government’s push to undermine end-to-end encryption | Element

  2025/07/22

• UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US | Ars Technica

  2025/07/22

• Bishop of San Bernardino excuses Catholics from mass if they are at risk from ICE

  2025/07/09

• “National security” only ever means what the government wants it to mean, without limiting principle – Ari Cohn

  2025/07/07

• Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”

  2025/06/24

• IMPT: STREAMING TODAY at 1000 Eastern, 1500 UK, 1600 Paris: US Gov’t obliquely discusses *sanctioning* UK for attempting to backdoor Apple iCloud

  2025/06/05

• Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages | Sigh, but at least I suppose they are shooting in the right direction…

  2025/05/02

• “Signal is better than most other commercial apps, but it’s not military-grade encryption” | …and we are all grateful for that small mercy

  2025/04/23

• MITRE / CVE is being killed by the Trump Government

  2025/04/16