From: http://xkcd.com/

Thank you EFF. From the article:

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, ruling that the act of decrypting data is testimonial and therefore protected by the Fifth Amendment

From the moment we won our independence we have been resisting our governments attempt to take it away. It is a fight that will never be won but it must not be lost. It is a struggle organic to our system and evidence that our system is functioning. Fight to keep what belongs to you.

My lap times on the Information Superhighway have been going lower.

Cory Doctorow is an entertaining speaker and is one of the few orators that can express coherently the issues of privacy and personal freedom in our increasingly digital times. Below is a recent talk he gave in which he says:

As a member of the Walkman generation, I have made peace with the fact that I will require a hearing aid long before I die, and of course, it won’t be a hearing aid, it will be a computer I put in my body,” Doctorow explains, “So when I get into a car – a computer I put my body into – with my hearing aid – a computer I put inside my body – I want to know that these technologies are not designed to keep secrets from me, and to prevent me from terminating processes on them that work against my interests.