Some exiled members of the Venezuelan opposition endorse the recent assassination attempt. Others reject the accusation that they were involved.

Judge Orders US to Bring Back Family Deported While Asylum Case Was Open.

I hope higher courts sustain this attempt to rein in the lawless bullying carried out by US thugs. One can't count on the right-wing justices to defend the legal rights of people (as opposed to businesses).

Communications satellites could be used to do various kinds of harm, if crackers break their security.

The Creeping Privatization of [US] Public Libraries.

The article calls the Koch brothers "libertarians", but their support for some kinds of human rights is a beard for their real cause: a laissez-faire, laissez-dévorer economy. They hate public libraries because they are public, and any public activity that helps people is what they call "socialism".

Please don't support their pretense: join me in calling them "antisocialists".

Georgia's election systems are grossly insecure, both for the voter list and for the supposed list.

DEFCON will hold a contest for young crackers to break the security of imitations of real US state voting systems.