Canadian SOPA: Bill C-11 passes Commons, allowing for U.S.-style copyright law
“No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?” (img by Maclean’s) tl;dr Canada is about to illegalize ripping music/content conversion and instate a blank media tax. @Yahoo!: After...
View ArticleFirst step against fear
Check out this interesting article on fear and imagination: In Most Secret War, Dr. R. V. Jones discusses the human tendency to “conjure up fear under conditions of stress,” a tendency the modern...
View ArticleATF Keeps Its Name, but Adds a New One
tl;dr it isn’t Department of Arming Mexican Drug Lords and Narcoterrorists, Interestingly enough, the M16 “in the white” like that means it’s probably homemade. The M204 grenade launcher and US...
View ArticleHomeland Security’s Ammunition Purchases Should Not Worry You
A CBP agent with M14 rifle and HK P2000 pistol, both of which require ammunition to function properly (img Andrew Tuohy) tl;dr the order’s fake but it keeps their budget intact @Gear Scout: Talk of the...
View ArticleDHS Explains: ‘We Bought Ammo While Shopping Online Drunk’
With much of the United States speculating as to why the Department of Homeland Security needsbillions and billions of dollars’ worth of ammunition, new reports are coming forth that put the...
View ArticleA Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood
tl;dr CIA swapped hits for airspace in Pakistan, @NYT: On a hot day in June 2004, the Pashtun tribesman was lounging inside a mud compound in South Waziristan, speaking by satellite phone to one of...
View Article‘IT for Oppression’
Bruce Schneier’s a security specialist with his own Internet meme. And while most people believe that technology elevates, improves things, Schneier holds that technology magnifies, makes things...
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