Cory Doctorow lecture about freedom, surveillance and technology

I just listened to a Cory Doctorow lecture he gave at the Central European University in Budapest.

The lecture recounts the same themes and ideas he talked about in numerous other lectures and wrote about in his book “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free“. The difference about this lecture is that it was targeted at a somewhat less-technically oriented audience, and therefore includes basic high-level explanations as to why there are no such things as “golden keys” to cryptography.

I recommend sharing this with less technically inclined friends and family who care about freedom, surveillance and related policy.

Also, this cat.

A New Cluetrain Manifesto

The original Cluetrain Manifesto, put many ideas into words and moved a generation 16 years ago. The new one, written by the same authors, aims to do the same. But is this for the new generation, or the old?

Agree with it  or not, it is important, and not a long read. So go read it.