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Like many others, I got an email from Liam Patterson inviting me to join Dizinga. The thing is that I received this email via an alias that I've only ever used with Spreadshirt.

The question is: How did Liam Patterson (Dizinga) obtain my email address ? Has Spreadshirt sold their user's...

We're banning behavior, not ideas.

A truly open, non-censored platform of communication is not sustainable if its...

I'm ready to buy a phone, I just figured out that I almost need one. After years of living like a caveman (i.e. a free person), I decided I'm ready to spend more of my life looking at a screen.

As a person who avoids non-free software like most people avoid ebola, I figured I should see...

Citizenfour is available on digital download on "all digital media". I was very excited to watch it, but then I realised there was a minor issue and that I am going to be that guy again. (my previous post on ...

The Interweb is dying, these days it's all about the money. Forget websites being about the subject of the website, it's mostly about the clicks. Among the worst people working the web in that direction are those who run SEO/marketing analytic bots. These bots scrape the web and attempt to make m...

Sony Pictures has been compromised last month. Many internal documents were released on November 24th, responsibility was claimed by a group called 'GOP' (Guardians of Peace). The amount of data stolen from them was estimated at 100TB (in other words: A LOT and then way more than more).

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform where projects, or "cool" projects can gather capital from people in return for some goodies (but not always). Each project offers whatever compensation they want and it may differ dep...

The Dark Mail Alliance has sent out their first email, and sadly it's borderline marketing spam.

The Dark Mail Alliance is basically Silent Cirlce and Lavabit teaming up to work on new things such as email with end-to-end encryption...

Roundcube is a webmail interface that has gone through a lot lately. It's interface is very clean and they just added a new interface skin which is actually really really nice. There are many 3rd party plugins that can enhance (or break) Roundcube. Just to be clear, MyRoundcube is not Roundcube, ...

If you haven't heard of it, EME, or Encrypted Media Extensions, could be a part of the W3C specification that would allow a website to control a visitors web browser. The goal would be to restrict access to content, this ranges from restricting ...

The discussion about implement DRM in HTML has been ongoing on the W3C mailing lists for a while now. Sometimes it seems more of a flame war than others. Companies like Netflix, Microsoft and even Google are trying to push for a standard that would allow the content distributors to...