Little Rock Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, appeared via video-conference to an applauding audience in Austin at the South by South West conference among the Technorati to argue for better protection of privacy data. He was lobbying for improved encryption programs and reportedly Google, Yahoo and others are on the job already. Snowden’s hope, reportedly, …
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Does the NSA Know How to Take NO for an Answer?
Houston President Obama is having to shovel behind the National Security Agency (NSA) way too much for anyone to feel that they are in check. The latest hullabaloo is not Brazil this time, but our old buddies in France and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, who we have been counting on to keep Europe …
The Circle will be Broken by Boredom: Eggers & 1984
New Orleans I’m not sure that I could be classified as a Dave Eggers fan, but not being that much of a fiction reader, I’ve actually read a good sampling of his books, and I am an admirer of his imagination, his topicality, and his ambition. Of the four Eggers’ books I’ve now read, two …