Bruce Schneier has a great Salon column today on President Bush’s authorization of the NSA to engage in domestic wiretapping without seeking court approval:
Most likely, Bush wanted a whole new surveillance paradigm. You can think of the FBI’s capabilities as “retail surveillance”: It eavesdrops on a particular person or phone. The NSA, on the other […]

My friend Eric Goldman, who’s a law professor at Marquette, has bet me that Wikipedia will fail within five years. Here’s his blog posting about the bet.
I read Jimbo Wales’s announcement — that soon anonymous authors won’t be able to start Wikipedia articles — as being less significant than Eric thinks it is. First […]

My friend John Siegenthaler, whom I know from my affiliation with the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center, recently published an op-ed in USA Today about his experience with Wikipedia — it turns out that some malicious, anonymous Wikipedia author crafted an utterly false “biographical” entry for Siegenthaler.
I won’t repost what the bogus Wikipedia entry […]