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9 Dec 2015, 8:37 pm by Ron Coleman
As Cory Doctorow (via Insty) says: Copyright law is hard. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 4:55 am by David Canton
And this article by Cory Doctorow on how ridiculous British Prime Minister David Cameron’s comments on the need to backdoor encryption are entitled What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 7:38 am by Michael Froomkin
Ironically, modern surveillance states are baffled by people who change countries (Cory Doctorow). [read post]
In this conversation with Jonathan Zittrain, Cory Doctorow — author and EFF Special Advisor — explains how he plans to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade. [read post]
In this conversation with Jonathan Zittrain, Cory Doctorow — author and EFF Special Advisor — explains how he plans to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade. [read post]
In this conversation with Jonathan Zittrain, Cory Doctorow — author and EFF Special Advisor — explains how he plans to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 9:48 am by Ron Coleman
FTC clobbers Roca Labs, the terrible weight-loss company that banned negative reviews http://t.co/5uPWVza6xZ pic.twitter.com/5cMHkRvRJW — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) September 25, 2015 [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 5:05 pm by Noah Swartz and Shahid Buttar
That kind of infrastructure is one model to protect student innovation that we'll cover at F2i.We've convened a large group of activists and experts, including Alvaro Bedoya, Cory Doctorow, Joi Ito, Jeremy Rubin, Andy Sellars, Wendy Seltzer, Peter Suber, and Kit Walsh. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 6:32 am by F. Tim Knight
” The latest LFP initiative is a push to have libraries support The Onion Router (TOR) network by hosting TOR exit relays.[1] If you’re not familiar with what a “TOR exit relay” is, Cory Doctorow provides a nice explanation about TOR in his book, “Little Brother. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 10:08 am by Bruce Schneier
And Cory Doctorow outlined what trying would entail: For David Cameron's proposal to work, he will need to stop Britons from installing software that comes from software creators who are out of his jurisdiction. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 11:28 am
A ban would likely mean, as Cory Doctorow notes, that many companies would have to relocate or completely revamp their servers as operating systems like GNU/Linux and BSD use free and open source code. [read post]
22 Jul 2015, 5:48 am by David Canton
That’s a really bad idea – or as Cory Doctorow puts it in a post entitled Once Again: Crypto backdoors are an insane, dangerous idea: “Among cryptographers, the idea that you can make cryptosystems with deliberate weaknesses intended to allow third parties to bypass them is universally considered Just Plain Stupid. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 3:58 pm
  Party The party kicked off at 8pm, with hosts Wil Wheaton and Cory Doctorow leading the festivities. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 7:16 am
Or as Cory Doctorow put it in an e-mail: If indeed the House of Saud—for example—demands a high degree of network censorship, then MSFT is acting as a agent of Wahhabism, enforcing the autocratic dictates of a repressive regime against its neighbors simply because they can't be bothered to lift a finger not to.While a Microsoft representative told me that users in those countries can simply change their market location in their user settings, they… [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 11:48 am
We're excited to have special guest co-emcees for the evening, Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton! [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 9:57 am by Michael Froomkin
The surveillance-related stuff includes The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash, Little Brother & Homeland by Cory Doctorow, Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada, the obligatory Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (Glenn Greenwald’s choice), and my brother’s selection of a thriller — Inside Out by Barry Eisler. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 11:45 pm
The party starts at 8 pm, emceed by Wil Wheaton and Cory Doctorow with music by Midtown Social, Dual Core, and A plus D. [read post]
22 May 2015, 11:38 am by Kevin
Second, Ken's most recent post, "Happy to Be Here," is (as Cory Doctorow describes it) a "frank, brave, honest, and important" piece about depression. [read post]
20 May 2015, 6:56 am
Cory Doctorow, author, journalist, and co-editor of Boing Boing: "Democracies make their laws in public, not in smoke-filled rooms. [read post]
6 May 2015, 8:28 am by Parker Higgins
As the evidence mounts that we're already deep into what EFF Special Consultant Cory Doctorow has dubbed the War On General Purpose Computing, efforts like the Free Software Foundation's International Day Against DRM take on a new meaning. [read post]