Population growth exacerbates a wide range of environmental problems, from food shortage to flooding.

The cruel right-wing response to population growth is, "Let them starve now so that the population goes down to what that region can support." The humane (progressive) response is, "Give them the food they need now, along with contraception and abortion so that the population goes down to what that region can support."

The NSA has made computers vulnerable to all attackers. Government malware = criminal malware.

Traffic analysis can identify which page a user is visiting through HTTPS with up to 90% accuracy, but there are defenses that greatly reduce it.

I think these defenses should be implemented standardly in free HTTPS servers.

More info.

My Private Idaho Prison: CCA appears to have systematically defrauded the state.

Will its employees and managers be prosecuted and sent to that prison? Or will the "security" establishment protect them on the grounds that enriching the company was the purpose of privatization all along?

US citizens: call for taxing businesses' advertising spending.