   July 03, 2005 - July 09, 2005 ArchiveJuly 08, 2005Smart Counter-terrorism
Bruce Schneier with some timely thoughts on security in the wake of the London bombings.
July 07, 2005Progress, Freedom - and Godwin's Law
James DeLong defends calling collective licensing "socialist gulag," says the term is accurate when we must beg goverment "to exercise control of [ourselves], [our] creations, or property." Await use of "software patents gulag," "anti-circumvention archipelago."
Use Open Wi-Fi, Go to Jail
If FBI just set up a giant orbiting AP set to "linksys," it could entrap all of us.
July 06, 2005Martha Stewart: Freedom To Tinker
MS experiments with circumventing the protections on her ankle monitor: "You can figure out how to get it off," she is quoted as saying. "It's on the Internet. I looked it up."
A Pan-European Online Music License
Rumor of an EU proposal to simplify the licensing process, with a report to be furnished Thursday.
Summary of the EU Software Patents Victory
Amazing hack of the legislative process, against all the odds.
July 05, 2005Broadcast Flag Deliberations Move to Secret Base Within Hollowed-Out Volcano
Broadcasters meet outside the US, outside formal WIPO, to discuss future treaty issues.
Forget Patenting Software, Someone Should Patent Indomitability
The amazing EU anti-software patent effort enters its last 24 hours, with EU officials talking about the software patent proposal being "in trouble."
Dear German ISPs, Please Break the Internet, Thx, Copyright Holders
German ISPs are being asked to poison their DNS caches to redirect Germans from allegedly infringing websites.
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