Monthly Archives: June 2009

Pinwale Pricks Privacy

The NSA is watching you and reading your email even though they aren’t supposed to be doing so without a direct court order. Code-named “Pinwale” — the NSA has been using that database to listen in on your inner email … Continue reading

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Twitter Flips Us the Bird

We know I don’t think much of Twitter, even though I Tweet Boles Blogs Network updates.  I’m sort of the lonesome stepchild standing in the street yelling to everyone around me — “But the bird has no feathers!” — while … Continue reading

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The Google Embedded Eye

We know Google knows more about our neighbors than we know about ourselves — but when hard numbers are presented against Google — we begin to fill its pricking chill with no escape hatch available:

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