Below are links to news developments or commentaries published during the two days that PogoWasRight.org was unavailable. They are semi-organized by topic, with some overlap between sections. Great thanks to Joe Cadillic, who helped me keep track of what I needed to save while the site was suffering from Table Dysfunction Disorder: Businesses: Suspect in rape/abduction…
Category: Misc
We’re back.
Waking up in the morning is challenging enough for some of us. Waking up to discover all the content of your blog is gone and seemingly unrecoverable is even more challenging. Unfortunately, Hostgator’s support was inundated with support tickets due to another issue they had last week, and it was quite a while before they…
EFF’s ‘Secure Messaging Scorecard’ Rates Digital Communication Tools
From EFF: In the face of widespread Internet data collection and surveillance, we need a secure and practical means of talking to each other from our phones and computers. Many companies offer “secure messaging” products – but how can users know if these systems actually secure? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its Secure Messaging…
The Digital Currency Dilemma: Anonymity vs. Privacy (Op-Ed)
First Global Credit’s CEO Gavin Smith comments on digital currency exchange Bitstamp’s policy change and the issue of anonymity in the digital currency markets. This week Bitcoin Exchange, Bitstamp, fulfilled a promised policy change of handing over to the authorities all details of all the unverified accounts on their system. Further those unverified accounts would be subject…