It's foolish for anyone to entrust secrets to cloudy digital "services". It's especially foolish when these secrets concern guarding or accessing nuclear weapons, but that doesn't mean you ought to make the same mistake.

The guards should use one of the free/libre programs for flashcard learning — some are listed in the free software directory. They won't send anything to remote servers unless you ask them to.

President Kagame of Rwanda is now being recognized for his persistent repression of opposition leaders. It's on a level with Putin and Lukashenko.

Thinking of art works as "intellectual property" demonstrates contempt for these works and for art, much like calling them "content."

I've described several reasons to reject the term "intellectual property" entirely. This is one additional reason.

The NHS has a plan to redistribute patient data to university labs and even companies.

This can be useful for progress in medicine, but if it isn't held in check by an organization whose main priority is privacy, it could ruin some people's lives.

Please don't refer to the redistribution of personal data between companies with the word "sharing".

*Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives.*

Apple is systematically undermining interoperability. At the hardware level, it does this via nonstandard plugs, buses and networks. At the software level, it does this by not letting the user have any data except within one app.