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Larry Lessig delivered a 60-minute lecture with the title “Coding Against Corruption” at this year’s ETech conference in that inimitable Lessig style — terse, punchy wording punctuated by rapid flips between one- to two-word slides. As you’ve probably heard, Lessig has switched gears from copyright to corruption — a significant escalation. While Lessig did a [...]

EFF’s Hugh D’Andrade has collected a number of angry editorial responses to Congress’ failure to protect citizens from unprecedented government surveillance. The Democrats’ abject fear of looking “soft on terror” belies what they think of the American public—that we’re all too scared dumb to recognize when “to fight terrorism” is describing a hollow excuse instead [...]