Why I Like Tor

This is for all the law-breakers out there and the people who support them.
Anyone can run a Tor server. That includes the DEA, the FBI, the CIA, MI5, Interpol, or even your local police department. They can monitor the traffic that routes through their Tor servers and even include code on  passers-through to track users’ [...]

Using Technology for Good Instead of Harm

I decided to start tracking articles showing how technology can be used to help people and society from criminals rather than to hurt people following what happened at the DSL forums earlier this week in which one member said he would assist terrorists in certain cases. He mentioned the rape of an Iraqi woman by [...]

Things Aren’t Much Smoother

I’ve made a few entries that never even showed up, I’ve posted things that were once up but are now missing, and now all the images are gone from my blog. And the auto-save just reported another error.
I know the folks running blogsavy are working their hearts out to keep things up and running. I [...]

OLPC XO to Get Competition, MS Holds Up XO?

Jack Schofield writes that Asustek, assemblers of some of Dell’s laptops and Apple MacBooks, plans their own line of sub-$250 laptops. Asustek VP Jerry Shen says sales could reach 10 million units in 2008. It’s going to be based on the Intel Classmate, which is designed for either Linux or Windows.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is now complicating [...]