The principal charges against Barrett Brown are meant to attack the whole Internet.

The article quotes someone using the word "hacking" to mean "breaking security". Please don't use the word that way — it is unfair to us hackers. Hacking is playful cleverness. When you're talking about breaking security, whether you think it is right or wrong in the given instance, please call it "cracking".

On Hacking

The non-prosecution of the killers of Baba Mousa, and those who helped cover them up, shows that the army can't be trusted to investigate war criminals.

Officials responsible for the Hillsborough disaster may be prosecuted for manslaughter.

I think it is even more important to prosecute the thugs that covered up their wrongs by falsely accusing the spectators. That was a separate act, and a worse one in my opinion. Whoever were responsible for the conditions that resulted in the death of spectators surely did not intend to kill; their misdeed was one of negligence. By contrast, those who carried out the cover-up acted with full knowledge and intent.

Analyzing Putin's article: insults to Obama, presented as support.

Some "open source" supporters used to offer me similar "support".

Most of Putin's points, as described in this article, are valid. Ironically, its points against him are valid too; Putin is a bigger enemy of democracy than Obama. But that doesn't make his points wrong.

If only the US and Obama were a good example to contrast such tyrants with.

UK thugs interfere with journalism by accusing unarmed journalists of "intimidating" men with rifles.

The journalist in question was trying to report on the badger cull. I have no opinion about the badger cull. I don't know whether the cull will help prevent bovine tuberculosis (its stated purpose), but it clearly won't drive badgers or any other species extinct.

I have no special feeling about badgers, but I smell a rat when thugs make false accusations against journalists.