Mauritania has arrested anti-slavery activists.

Paris Is a Warning: There Is No Insulation From our Wars.

An Indian writer has been bullied into quitting writing by a campaign of threats.

How Companies Like Walmart Are Fighting to Keep Workplace Injuries Secret.

More about Obama's plan to criminalize any disobedience in using a computer.

For instance, sending a personal email from a work computer, if that breaks the company's rule, might automatically become a crime.

It is clear that this proposal has nothing to do with protecting against anything we really want to prevent. Rather, it is an example of the practice of using a notorious attack as excuse for unrelated prohibitions desired for some other reason.

Please don't use the word "hackers" to mean real or accused security breakers. That's unfair to us hackers, who enjoy playful cleverness.