Favorite We’re thrilled to announce the relaunch of Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD), our guide to defending yourself and your friends from digital surveillance by using encryption tools and developing appropriate privacy and security practices. The site launches today in English, Arabic, and Spanish, with more languages coming soon. SSD was first launched in 2009, to “educate…
Research Is Just the Beginning: A Free People Must Have Open Access to the Law
Favorite The open access movement has historically focused on access to scholarly research, and understandably so. The knowledge commons should be shared with and used by the public, especially when the public helped create it. But that commons includes more than academic research. Our cultural commons is broader than what is produced by academia. Rather…
Where Copyright Fails, Open Licenses Help Creators Build Towards a Future of Free Culture
Favorite One of the convictions that drew law professor and former EFF board member, Lawrence Lessig, to co-found Creative Commons was that a narrow and rigid application of copyright law made no sense in the digital age. Copying digital information over long distances and at virtually no cost is what the Internet does best; indeed,…
Snowden’s Motivation: What the Internet Was Like Before It Was Being Watched, and How We Can Get There Again
Favorite Laura Poitras’ riveting new documentary about mass surveillance gives an intimate look into the motivations that guided Edward Snowden, who sacrificed his career and risked his freedom to expose mass surveillance by the NSA. CITIZENFOUR, which debuts on Friday, has many scenes that explore the depths of government surveillance gone awry and the high-tension…
How to edit the hosts file in Mac OS X – Leopard
Favorite I recently had a situation where, after a failed attempt at configuring an AMPPS development environment on my macbook pro, I suddenly was unable to visit one of my websites — the http address would not resolve. I could reach it by FTP, just not by any browser. What was fishy was that I…
Prometheus Explained
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How to ByPass Video Region Restrictions in Under a Minute
Favorite Found this on Digital Trends .com, while searching for a way to view the wikileaks film “Mediastan”. By Andrew Couts — October 19, 2012 I’m not going to lie to you: My girlfriend and I are big, sappy, aristocrat-loving “Downton Abbey” fans. So when season three debuted in September, we could hardly wait to start watching. Problem…
Mac OS X – Show / Hide Hidden Files
Favorite This content was originally posted at http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2007/03/23/mac-os-x-show-hide-hidden-files-in-finder/ ——————————————————————————————— I always forget how to do this because I toggle this rather sporadically so I’m adding it to the public record. To show hidden files in Finder pop open your terminal and type the text shown in the screen grab below. To go back to hiding…
How To Hack An Electronic Road Sign
Favorite This information was copied from jalopnik.com DO NOT under any circumstances run around hacking into electronic road signs using the information contained in this step-by-step guide of how to transmit hilarious messages to passing motorists. How many times have you driven by an electronic road sign like one of these? This is the ADDCO…
Wikileaks writer’s kit
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Favorite “ …newspaper headlines still display: “No right to interfere in our internal affairs!” Whereas there are no INTERNAL AFFAIRS left on our crowded Earth! And mankind’s sole salvation lies in everyone making everything his business; in the people of the East being vitally concerned with what is thought in the West, the people of…