Sheik al-Hilali, Rape and the Culture of Fear

By now the comments of the Australian Muslim cleric Sheik Tay Din al-Hilali have spread far and wide over the news/outrage cloud.  In among the outrage and the condemnations have come a lot of comments saying that what the sheik is espousing is really not all...

“The Wire” Moving to … uh … the wire?

HBO is finally "examining" putting its content onto the web … while many may jeer "Hey, about time," for HBO this is a more complicated Gordian Knot that it might seem.  And hey, it’s not like other major media companies all have...

Social Griefing, DMCA and Craigslist – the EFF Steps In

There’s something very deep here – and it’s part of that ongoing story  about the guy that started the entrap-a-perv thing on Craigslist.  Apparently,  this monkey is pretty good at gaming the system – he figured out how to fake...