By Martin Bosworth Read it and weep: CINCINNATI – A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush‘s domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs had no […]
Revived immigration bill will lead to REAL ID–and to identity theft and data breaches
By Martin Bosworth Like a zombie lurching from the grave, the Senate has decided to resurrect the behemoth “guest worker compromise” immigration bill. And just as before, not only will this bill […]
The iPhone and AT&T: it’s a devil’s bargain
By Martin Bosworth For everyone who is slavering with anticipation at the debut of the shiny new Apple iPhone, keep this in mind: If you buy one of those admittedly slick new […]
Immigration capitulation
As mad as I am about the Dems bending over and dropping trou for the Decider on the Iraq war bill, there’s actually another case of “surrender monkeying” that bothers me more, […]
Seeds of a dictatorship?
By Martin Bosworth Sunfell linked to an interesting bit of news that slipped under the radar a few weeks back–the Bush regime has issued its new continuity of operations plan in case […]
“Deliberate ignorance”
By Martin Bosworth Glenn Greenwald does his usual masterful job in analyzing the full horrific consequences of the lengths Abu Gonzales went to in order to ensure that the NSA’s illegal wiretapping […]
Trading Security For Convenience
By Martin Bosworth I’ve never heard of this guy until today–he’s apparently one of those good-at-everything types that we all hate–and I know this post about using Registered Traveler is mostly meant […]
The Battle For Better Broadband
By Martin Bosworth A few days ago in my post celebrating the victories of the Save The Internet coalition, a certain fly in the ointment challenged me on a few points in […]
Internet Bubble 2.5: Mobile Phone Commerce
By Martin Bosworth Following on Gavin’s excellent post about the early adoption of mobile commerce and content pursuit across the globe, this issue actually came up in the course of the second […]
FTC Identity Theft Conference
By Martin Bosworth For those of you who noticed my absence, I was at the FTC’s identity theft/identity authentication conference, and had quite a lot to say about it. I’ll have more […]