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• What’s Your Traveller Risk Score? “It’s probably the most invasive system the government has yet deployed in terms of the number of people affected” - David Sobel, EFF lawyer. Like all these systems, we are all judged in secret, by a computer algorithm, with no way to see or even challenge our score. Kafka would be proud. - Bruce Schneier
• In Bigger News: FCC Opens White Space & Frees iPhone I was always baffled by Apple exclusively giving the iPhone to AT&T. It’s not in Apple’s DNA to tie the customer experience of their products to someone else. Exclusively or otherwise. Multi-year or otherwise. Apple’s built their reputation on owning and controlling the entire stack; OS, applications, hardware. Hell, Apple’s never been crazy about
• Historical Political Drama Double Feature  Last night, Jen and I watched All the President’s Men, off the Netflix. It’s the screen adaptation of the Watergate investigation starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward & Bernstein, or “Woodstein”. Considering the whole thing went down months before I was born, my understanding of Watergate is ethereal at best. The movie
• FCC’s Current Stance on Internet Censorship This topic came up in a lunch conversation today, and I wanted to confirm I still accurately understood the FCC’s current position: “That being said, the F.C.C. has no jurisdiction over what content an individual broadcasts over the Internet, assuming it is legal.” Looks like the recently ratified Cybercrime Treaty is the closest to internet censorship. The treaty
• Federal Ineffectualness Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? If you’re trying to show the value of and need for a small government, what better way to do it than bog it down in red tape, heel-dragging, target-less finger-pointing, and ignoring the pre-existing plans. By cutting funding, acting slowly, and otherwise sabotaging success - whether in the public education system or the New Orleans recovery