Edward Snowden wasn’t there in the flesh at Saturday’s Stop Watching Us rally. But he participated by way of a statement, calling for NSA reform and reminding politicos that the public is watching……

An anonymous reader writes “Email service FastMail.fm has an blog post about an interesting bug they’re dealing with related to the new Mail.app in Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks. After finding a user who had 71 messages in his Junk Mail folder that were somehow responsible for over a million entries in the index file, they…

An anonymous reader writes “When encrypted email provider Lavabit shut down in August, it was because U.S. authorities demanded the company release encryption keys to get access to certain accounts. Lavabit’s founder, Ladar Levison, is facing contempt of court charges for his refusal to acquiesce to their demands. But now the ACLU has filed a…

Mastering engineer Bob Katz is certain the Loudness Wars will soon fade away, and music will sound better than ever…….

An anonymous reader writes “A coalition of eight U.S. states, including New York and California, have announced a plan to get 3.3 million zero-emission electric vehicles onto their roads by 2025. ‘The states, which represent more than a quarter of the national car market, said they would seek to develop charging stations that all took…

snydeq writes “CNET’s Daniel Terdiman investigates an oversize secret project Google is constructing on San Francisco’s Treasure Island, which according to one expert may be a sea-faring data center. ‘Something big and mysterious is rising from a floating barge at the end of Treasure Island, a former Navy base in the middle of San Francisco…

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Danny O’Brien writes for the EFF that as the NSA’s spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how they can defend themselves from surveillance online. ‘The bad news is: if you’re being personally targeted by a powerful intelligence agency like the NSA, it’s very, very difficult…

There’s nothing wrong with holding onto those shrink-wrapped software boxes and hard copy licenses or is there? I think you have to look past the calls for its demise just because of what’s on the calendar…….

Mega.com’s Vikram Kumar explains why he’s building private but not anonymous e-mail, why you won’t see Google investing in end-to-end encryption, and lessons learned from the summer of Snowden…….

An anonymous reader writes “The administrator of file-sharing site UploaderTalk shocked and enraged his userbase a few days ago when he revealed that the site was nothing more than a honeypot set up by a company called Nuke Piracy. The main purpose of the site had been to gather data on its users. The administrator…