Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Link roundup

http://imgur.com/gallery/Dy79J I might actually need a simple proxy service, depending on how bad my ISPs are: https://getlantern.org/ Lantern is a free desktop application that delivers fast, reliable and secure access to the open Internet. It seems to be a different product than this, which seems to be hardware: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-forever#/story
http://deathtobullshit.com/ http://darkpatterns.org/ https://www.loannow.com/bank-overdraft-policy-reform-overdue/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10113639 http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-companies-make-millions-off-lead-poisoned-poor-blacks/2015/08/25/7460c1de-0d8c-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
Jury nullification is understandably controversial — and is especially resented by courts and prosecutors. It is the notion that jurors can ignore the law and follow their conscience when they believe the law would dictate a miscarriage of justice. But it is hardly a new concept. In one of the most celebrated colonial trials, for example, a jury acquitted newspaper editor Peter Zenger of libeling the royal governor even though Zenger was technically guilty under the law and the judge basically told jurors to find him guilty. In the 19th century, Northern juries refused to convict abolitionists for harboring runaway slaves. In the 20th century, juries often balked at enforcing Prohibition and later, on occasion, at what they considered overly harsh drug laws or laws governing sexual behavior. Jury nullification had a darker strain, too, as Southern juries would sometimes refuse to convict white defendants guilty of racial violence. The point is that jury nullification is not some crank theory concocted out of the blue. As First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh has written, "It's clear that it's not a crime for jurors to refuse to convict even when the jury instructions seem to call for a guilty verdict." http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_28662070/jury-nullification-is-not-crime-denver/mobile-web
http://www.hakspek.com/security/updates-make-windows-7-and-8-spy-on-you-like-windows-10/ http://www.hakspek.com/security/windows-script-to-remove-all-windows-10-telemetry-updates/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10110155
Data brokers swindle you out of 4th Amendment rights: https://thestack.com/security/2015/08/24/how-corporate-data-brokers-sell-your-life-and-why-you-should-be-concerned/
https://www.mailvelope.com/en/blog/gmx-and-web-de-launch-pgp Encrypted email isn't popular yet.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-mr-wizard-science-guy-inspired-bill-nye-180956371/
http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-08/xkeyscore-nsa-domestic-intelligence-agency
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/how-security-flaws-work-the-buffer-overflow/

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