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Techdirt has noted the increasing demonization of hackers (not to be confused with crackers that break into systems for criminal purposes...

Hackers and hacking have been much in the news recently - for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately. The most dramatic case, perhaps, was...

You may have noticed a bit of a trend recently. Groups of hackers are getting hold of stuff that has hitherto been kept locked up, and makin...

Since free software was originally created by hackers for hackers, it's no wonder that the first programs they created were tools - thin...

One of the reasons that I regard the rise of WikiLeaks as such a key event is that it is throwing an interesting light on so many areas – ma...

I received a review copy of Steven Levy's seminal book Hackers back in the 1980s, but never read it. I did, though, keep it, because i...

The ideas in this PhD thesis , which is rather heavy going but has its heart in the right place, may be familiar to readers of this blog: A ...

As you may have noticed, posting to this blog was light last week, as in non-existent (OK, so you didn't notice.) This was because I was...

...that, at least, is what this deranged story in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper claims : Ричард Столлман. В 1990 году он объявил крест...

In the beginning, free software was an activity conducted on the margins - using spare time on a university's computers, or the result o...

Call me parochial, but until a few minutes ago, I'd never heard of MFC/R2, and certainly had no inkling it might be important. Apparentl...

An interesting question from Marc Fleury. The answer: *of course* it could. Just don't expect many of the top open source hackers worki...

I've always thought that Russia offered very fertile ground for free software. It has some of the best hackers in the worlds (not to me...

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if everything you hear is always recorded, if your phone can be active with no external indication, if your main lines of communication can ...

I seem to be one of the few people in the known universe that (a) does not have an iPhone and (b) does not want one. So I don't really ...

Despite having the world's worst name, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest sounds a fine initiative: Following on from the suc...

Via GigaOM , I came across a link to this love-letter to Facebook: Thinking about it, I've rarely used a service that has brought me so...

From David Miller, one of the most senior kernel hackers, comes this little story : Say you've been doing nothing for the past few weeks...

Sad news : David Harris, creator of the Pegasus email client, has ceased development of the software. During Web 1.0, Pegasus was my pref...