Today's Techno-Liberty post is a little late, because it's long and took some extra effort (and also because of a very nice concert last night). I discuss whether a regulatory or tort-based approach is the better way to deal with "Internet of Things" products that are so poorly designed that criminals and hacktivists can turn them into tools for ( Read more... )

Today's Techno-Liberty is a digest of recent events ( Read more... )

There was a very good reason (from SUP's viewpoint of self-preservation) for LiveJournal's moving its servers to Russia. It's the same reason Russia has permanently blocked LinkedIn: A law requiring data on Russians to be in Russia, on servers with back doors for the government.

I've put the full account on Techno-Liberty. As far as I can tell, no ( Read more... )