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When we wrote last year about a Dutch idea to give police there the power to break into computers -- even those located abroad -- we and...

Once more there is a lot of heated discussion about what constitutes a “real” open source business model – that is, one that remains true to...

So, the forces of stupidity, arrogance, greed, laziness and downright bloody-mindedness prevailed, and the Digital Economy Bill has turned f...

This is clearly getting serious : Katherine Aull's laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, lacks a few mod cons. "Down here I have ...

And yes, it's all about openness, collaboration and respect : companies who can build authentic, honest, open, collaborative relationshi...

What makes the code in the kernel so great is not that it goes in perfect, it's that we whittle all code in the treee down over and over...

Here's a classic story. Hacker gets tired of missing functionality; hacker thinks "it can't be that hard"; hacker takes a ...

I've sometimes been vaguely tempted by BeThere 's promises of "up to 24 Meg download" speeds. No more, if this is how it ...

...the techno-war for liberty, that is. At least, that's what the venerable Computer Chaos Club ( CCC ) reckons : "We have lost th...

A glorified alarm clock is not what you might expect to meet on this blog, but Chumby is rather different: Introducing chumby, a compact de...