Topic: COMPUTER - on July 14, 2016 at 3:55:00 PM CEST
Linus Torvalds Is Again Mad Over “Sh!t Code”, Calls Some Linux Devs “Brain-damaged”
Linux Torvalds is again mad over some developers due to their “disturbing” coding style. He has bashed the networking developers by pointing out their “brain-damaged” commenting syntax and listed out the styles that a Linux kernel developer should use.
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Topic: Appelbaum - on July 14, 2016 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Orwell’s Swan Song: Free Speech Activists Whitewashing Wikipedia To Silence Dissent
If you’d told me a year ago that I’d be writing a blogpost in July 2016 about how EFF and TorProject supporters are actively censoring free speech on the internet, I would have thought I’d be writing it for The Onion. Unfortunately, I’m not. I have supported and amplified for EFF, the Tor Project and related organisations, staff members and campaigns relentlessly, for years. As a ‘Person of Interest’, I have relied on their enterprises to keep me safe. I have defended them ideologically and in principle, when they have been unfairly under attack. However in an unbelievably Orwellian twist, recent and current events have completely transformed the situation from free speech organisations being similarly under attack by the State, to the State using free speech organisations to attack enemies of the State, and free speech as a whole.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:50:00 PM CEST
Tor-Projekt tauscht Aufsichtsgremium aus
Relativ überraschend hat das Anonymisierungs-Projekt seinen Verwaltungsrat komplett ausgetauscht. Unter den neuen Direktoren ist auch Kryptografie-Ikone Bruce Schneier. Der Anonymisierungsdienst Tor hat sein Aufsichtsgremium komplett ausgetauscht. Der alte, siebenköpfige Verwaltungsrat habe einstimmig sechs neue Mitglieder bestimmt und sei zugleich geschlossen zurückgetreten. Zur neuen, ehrenamtlich tätigen Führungsspitze zählen unter anderem Cindy Cohn, die Leiterin der Electronic Frontier Foundation, sowie die prominenten Kryptologen Bruce Schneier und Matt Blaze.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:47:00 PM CEST
The Tor Project Elects New Board of Directors
Today, the board of directors of the Tor Project is announcing a bold decision in keeping with its commitment to the best possible health of the organization. Says Tor's Executive Director Shari Steele, "I think this was an incredibly brave and selfless thing for the board to do. They’re making a clear statement that they want the organization to become its best self."
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