Some decades ago, when I was in high school, I somehow managed to get my hands on a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook. For a teenager in a society before the Internet, this was a fascinating read, though tame by today’s standards. I never really considered that this book might raise eyebrows until some years [...]

Last summer I finally gave in to the tantalizing siren song of the Kindle and bought one to take on a road trip—it was everything I had hoped for and more. Soon after returning from that trip I wrote a review of my Kindle experience. Now some time has passed and I am coming back [...]

It’s too comical to be true. A few months back, when I wrote an article warning about inadequate attempts at sanitizing PDF documents, I thought that any organization serious about censoring documents would not make such a basic error. Especially not a government agency, after the military had been caught by this pitfall. Apparently this [...]