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Phone "kill switch" bill

lundi 23 juin 2014 à 14:00

A bill being considered in California would require all portable phones to have a "kill switch". The EFF opposes this because it is tantamount to requiring a back door with which someone could remotely sabotage the phone.

I am concerned also that it would require phones to be designed such that it is impossible to replace the operating system with a free system such as Replicant.

High pay for CEO, low profits for company

lundi 23 juin 2014 à 14:00

A study finds that high pay for a CEO correlates with low profits for the company.

This means the FSF should be in great shape since its president gets no pay at all.

UK bans teaching creationism as science

lundi 23 juin 2014 à 14:00

The UK has banned schools from teaching creationism as science.

Al-Sisi's contempt for the US

lundi 23 juin 2014 à 14:00

By imprisoning journalists, al-Sisi also showed contempt for the US, which he expects will support him fully no matter how arbitrary he is.

Canadian court-ordered global censorship

lundi 23 juin 2014 à 14:00

A court in Canada ordered Google to remove a particular site from its search results world-wide.