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doom writes:
Charles Stross has announced that there
won't be a third book in the 'Halting State' trilogy because
reality (in a manner of speaking) has caught up to him too fast.
The last straw was apparently the news that the NSA
planted spies in networked games like WoW. Stross comments:
"At this point, I'm clutching my head. 'Halting State' wasn't
intended to be predictive when I started writing it in
2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet
are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers
for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat
question mark over the latter-- what else are the NSA up to?)."
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doom writes:
Ian Sample at the Guardian UK does a really thorough write-up of what's going on with the
Fukushima Clean-up.
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doom writes:
A headline story at Democracy Now: Snowdenâ(TM)s Email Provider Mysteriously Shuts Down
They say:
"An encrypted email service believed to have been used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden shut down abruptly on Thursday amid a legal fight that appeared to involve U.S. government attempts to win access to customer information. The owner of Lavabit, Ladar Levison, wrote a message online saying, 'I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people, or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit.' Levison said he was barred from discussing the events over the past six weeks that led to his decision. Levison went on to write: 'This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.' Later on Thursday, another secure email provider called Silent Circle also announced it was shutting down."