One recurring theme in conflicts through history is that the struggle for power has always been the struggle for the information advantage. The group that had more and better information…
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. In 1990, Germany was re-unified. In 1991, the Soviet Union was formally dissolved. The net effect of this is that nobody younger than…
Politicians and bureaucrats who clamp down on anonymity sometimes claim that an absence of anonymity has no adverse effect on freedom of speech. This is an outright lie; without anonymity,…
It seems there needs to be a major wiretapping disaster for the public to wake up to the fact that freedom of speech and privacy are essentially gone. Seeing how…
There has been a rather high financial interest in biometric security solutions for the past few years. I'm very sceptical of biometric authentication solutions - they're a privacy disaster waiting…
There is a couple of very important principles that build what we consider a modern democracy: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, privacy of citizens, transparency and accountability of…
Wiretapping has expanded grotesquely without lawmakers being aware of it, just by law enforcement demanding the apparent ability to wiretap online conversations. What nobody talks about is that if you're…
The NSA and its accomplices have killed whistleblower protection by tracking every communication that takes place. In doing so, they have killed the free press. There is no longer any…
It's hard to do sociopolitical studies to see whether people prefer civil liberties at the price of terrorism and unemployment, or safety and job security at the price of privacy.…
On a new year's day, it's traditional to make some predictions that can be shown true or false in a year. With almost a decade of global-level geopolitical game in…