CIA Drone Guy Becomes New Top Spy | Wired
July 21, 2010Continuing a pattern from the end of the Bush administration, the Obama-era CIA has sharply ratcheted up the use of missiles fired from drones to kill terrorist targets in Pakistan. The...
View ArticleMobile Plans Too Expensive in America, Says Group | Wired
October 18, 2010... Receiving phone calls is free in most countries, except U.S. and Canada–that’s why the rate per minute is doubled for these two countries, say Chiehyu Li and Bincy Ninan in a paper...
View ArticleDigital Weapons Help Dissidents Punch Holes in China's Great Firewall | Wired
November 3, 2010...“I know plenty of people in China who don’t like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don’t want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong either,” says Rebecca...
View ArticleTelecom Giants Cheer FCC Plan, Net Neutrality Advocates Aren’t Amused | Wired
December 2, 2010...Sascha Meinrath, Director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative: “Initial reports on the proposal indicate that it mirrors AT&T’s positions at the literal...
View ArticleFCC Passes Compromise Net Neutrality Rules | Wired
December 22, 2010...“Despite promising to fulfill President Obama’s campaign promise of enacting network neutrality rules to protect an open Internet, the FCC has instead prioritized the profits of...
View ArticleSocial Media Sparked, Accelerated Egypt's Revolutionary Fire | Wired
February 11, 2011... social media didn't cause the Egyptian revolution,” said Sascha Meinrath, the Director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative. ...Feed: In the News...
View ArticleU.S.-Funded Internet Liberation Project Finds Perfect Test Site: Occupy D.C....
December 15, 2011When Sascha Meinrath saw the Occupy encampment in D.C., he saw something few others would — a testbed for technology. ...Original article
View ArticleGovernment and the Net Serve Us, Not Vice Versa
May 16, 2012Rebecca MacKinnonMay 16, 2012A global struggle for control of the internet is under way. At stake is nothing less than civil liberties, privacy and democracy itself. Electronic censorship...
View ArticleGovernment Needs a Trip to Startup Land
July 19, 2012Marvin Ammori Stephanie Nguyen July 19, 2012On a Friday night in early June, eight strangers came up with an idea to help poor Americans on government assistance gain access to healthier...
View ArticleArmy Says 'Social Network' Use Is A Sign Of Radicalism | Wired
October 2, 2012Among them: “Youth,” which might be a difficult thing to mitigate against, unless the military wants to take former Pentagon official Rosa Brooks' unorthodox recruitment advice. “Social...
View ArticleMonopolies: Antitrust Law Protects Consumers, Not Competitors
October 16, 2012Marvin AmmoriOctober 16, 2012As we gear up for the presidential debates tonight, it’s worth reflecting on the presidential debates from exactly one hundred years ago.Because the key...
View ArticleAlternative to Bin Laden Raid: A Teeny, Tiny Missile Strike | Wired
October 16, 2012Bowden's accounts bolster another recent book about the raid, Peter Bergen's Manhunt. The special operations forces conducting the mission also labored under a shadow: the failures of...
View ArticleThe Internet Deserves Its Own Holiday
January 2, 2013Marvin AmmoriJanuary 2, 2013Every so often in human history, something new comes along that warrants a celebration, and that deserves its own holiday. That’s why I propose we celebrate...
View Article6 Strikes, 8 Days, 35 Dead: The U.S. Drone War In Pakistan Is Back | Wired
January 8, 2013The U.S. launched 43 drone strikes in Pakistan in 2012, according to the tally kept by the New America Foundation, reflecting a two-year downward trend from 2010′s high of 122 strikes....
View ArticleHow Weev's Long Prison Term Makes You More Vulnerable | Wired
March 20, 2013The Computer Fraud and Abuse act, as Tim Wu has ably argued on The New Yorker's website, could hypothetically be used to prosecute virtually any computer user — and indeed the Justice...
View ArticleMexico's Lucky to Have Just One Man Blocking Internet Equality. We've Got A...
May 13, 2013Multiple dominant firms can have the effect of a single monopolist simply by acting in parallel to keep new competitors from showing up, as a recent Yale Law Journal article by Scott...
View ArticlePentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees '10 To 20′ More Years of War Against Al-Qaida |...
May 16, 2013“I've never seen such an accomplished group of people give such muddled answers,” testified Rosa Brooks, a former Pentagon policy official. Spencer Ackerman. Danger Room senior reporter...
View Article'Quit Google, Facebook' Suggests Tech Expert As Surveillance Scandal Deepens...
June 10, 2013In an interview with Wired.co.uk, Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School suggested that consumers had a responsibility to leave social networks found out to be collaborating secretly with...
View ArticlePatent Trolls Are Killing Startups — Except When They’re Saving Them | Wired
September 10, 2013Her account of Ditto’s ongoing tangle with a patent-wielding behemoth arrives as part of a new survey published by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, a...
View ArticleWe’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It
November 4, 2013Marvin AmmoriNovember 4, 2013URL: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/so-the-internets-about-to-lose-its-net-neutrality/
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