toosigma

In an article in Wired, Bruce Schneier makes the following insightful observation:
Trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.

A friend of mine sent me a recent news article, detailing the predatory actions of a young man who managed to extort nude pictures and online companionship from a variety of girls through the social networking site Facebook.com.
I must say that I am appalled. Appalled at the fact that there are college-age women who [...]

This article was originally spurred by the generally negative portrayal of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the novel Digital Fortress. As a long-standing fan and member of the EFF, I must admit that I was more than a little taken aback at some of the characterizations of the organization. The members of [...]

I just finished reading the novel Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. With the recent release of the DaVinci Code, several of my co-workers have been re-reading Brown’s novels, and as I’d already read both The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, one of them loaned me a copy of his earlier novel. I [...]

… didn’t you know? Big Content is now trying to tell us that DRM isn’t only about stopping those evil pirates, but it’s also a safety measure to stop us poor dumb content-consumers from being turned into pirates ourselves!
So it’s not about legislating their way to a viable market that couldn’t possibly exist without [...]