Two British journalists imprisoned in Indonesia say that naval officers paid close attention to their case, while the UK's supposed help was incompetent.

Even though they had money to pay for some privileges in prison, they could not avoid the dirty food, and they could not get medicine when they got sick.

Modern slavery can be found in any industry.

Employers want immigrants to undercut wages for everyone else. Sometimes the immigrants are entirely willing. Sometimes they are threatened, exploited, or imprisoned. Either way, the overall result is that business owners around the world get more money, and workers get less.

Never Mind Pointless Apps — Our Best Minds Should Be Solving Real Problems.

This is not to mention that those apps are usually nonfree software, and often malware as well.

The Snooper's Charter would endanger computer security researchers in the UK.

There might be one way around this. If you publish info about the back door you found, encrypted, on a foreign site, and send the key to another foreign site that will publish the information in several months no matter what you subsequently say or do, you might then be safe discussing the matter with some foreign colleagues with a view to publishing it in a better way with better checing.

Of course, it's nuts to make security researchers go through these steps to protect themselves from state repression.

US citizens: call on presidential candidates to support the goal of global zero nuclear weapons.