wo CIA agents have reportedly been arrested smuggling half a ton of cocaine from Mexico in a CIA van. They say it was a CIA operation; the CIA says it wasn't.

We can't take the word of anyone involved.

There is a hardware product that strips the digital shackles from HDCP-encrypted video between a computer and its monitor.

These devices will probably become impossible to get in the US, in a few weeks. Thus, they will not be able to free all users from this kind of DRM, nor from the DRM on the media themselves (typically BluRay or Netfux).

Nonetheless, even hundreds of these devices could make HDCP fail to achieve what the copyright lords want, and that would be a victory to celebrate.

Our ultimate goal is to abolish DRM.

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Wild bison living around Yellowstone National Park have received increased protection.

Nuclear Weapons Risk Greater Than in Cold War , Says [Former Head of Pentagon].

California now requires the dishonest "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" to tell the women they "advise" where to get honest advice about abortion.