Imagine what TV would say if someone bombed a wedding party in the US; now contrast that with what US TV said when the US bombed a wedding party in Yemen.

A Murdoch paper made a joke out of it.

A Snowden document says that the NSA paid RSA Inc. to make the NSA's ineffective key generator the default option.

More information.

If the program is not free, its users are defenseless against malice at all sorts of levels.

It's not just the NSA: the FBI also snoops on Americans unjustly.

Edward Felten analyzes the strained language that Obama's NSA report uses to give the impression that the NSA has not put back doors into software people use. If the statements are literally true, they are full of loopholes.

They might also be false. If the NSA officials will lie to Congress, why wouldn't they lie to us?

A bill that is supposed to regulate lobbying in the UK will tie up citizens' campaigns in red tape.

I suspect the problem is due to not distinguishing business funding from other funding.