New Orleans Reading the New York Times magazine feature by Peter Maass on filmmaker Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald’s interactions with Edward Snowden and the gyrations involved in handling his NSA documents, made me feel naïve and not paranoid exactly, but uncomfortable and almost scared in an oh-my-god-this-is-so-much-worse-than-1984-kinda-way. Of course I had no …
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Hacktivists versus Tech Pioneers?
New Orleans There was a fascinating and disturbing opinion piece in the New York Times by Peter Ludlow, a Northwestern University professor philosophy that burned some of the fog from my eyes about the disparate treatment between computer hacktivists (hacking activists) and hack-preneurs or hacker entrepreneurs. It was not just the fact that Ludlow recited the …