Christopher Leger

Google, the New America Foundation, and the PlanetLab Consortium have put together a new toolkit to help you keep an eye on your ISP. Until and unless the federal government requires ISPs to conform to Network Neutrality, it is up to consumers to keep their ISPs honest. Tools like this are invaluable as a method [...]

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It looks like Comcast and AT&T are the first ISPs to fall to the coercive RIAA. The RIAA has finally realized that suing thousands of their customers is bad for business, and has decided to change their tactics. They now want to pay ISPs to be the cops of the internet, taking people offline who [...]

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With another Obama administration official coming straight from the Biden/RIAA wing of the Democratic party, it appears less and less likely that the Obama administration will be anywhere near as consumer friendly as even the Bush administration was. I think that the odds are better than average that we may look back at Kevin Martin’s [...]

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If any office in the country needs an IT infrastructure and policy upgrade, it is the White House. It sounds woefully inadequate for even the most rudimentary office work, let alone as the base from which to run the free world.

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Just like the debacle with the Scorpion’s album cover on Wikipedia, a controversial image has made the entire Internet archive unavailable to the UK. The heavy handed approach that the UK appears to be becoming more and more comfortable using is looking more and more like the great Chinese firewall, with zero regard for personal [...]

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It is refreshing to see academic studies about things “everybody knows.” a new study details the threat to children online from adult predators is roughly equal to the threat that exists in the real world. The same study concluded that online bullying is a substantially larger risk for children online – again, the same as [...]

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According to this New York Times article an unnamed telecommunications company challenged the constitutionality of the warrantless wiretapping program in a secret FISA claim and refused to comply with the order until the court ruled on the constitutional questions. Very few times do I think that telecommunication companies have their customer’s best interest at heart, [...]

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Declan McCullagh has an interesting piece on CNet today about a NSA-certified handheld that may be the next president’s portable device of choice. The General Dynamics Sectera Edge basically builds encryption and data security into every aspect of a standard Windows Mobile device. This level of data security may be a requirement for the president, [...]

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