Americans must not stand for officials' advocating China-style attacks on our encryption systems.

Encryption alone can't protect us from all the sorts of digital surveillance that are being set up in the US. Encryption won't stop systems from recognizing your license plate or your face. Encryption won't enable you to pay anonymously with a credit card, or carry a portable phone and not be tracked.

Between US air strikes and PISSI's explosive booby traps, Ramadi is now mostly a ruin.

That's better than what it was a month ago, a stronghold of barbarity. I expect that the civilian survivors will say so. Helping them get their voice out, to show young Muslims what a monster PISSI is, will help them resist radicalization.

As usual, campaigns to limit Google's snooping on students through their schools demand an inadequate remedy.

If the school makes an account in a student's name on a company's server, or stores any unencrypted information there about the student's activity, that is already a violation of the student's privacy.

Parents must go beyond asking "Please sir, may my child have some more privacy" and organize to put an end to these snooping activities.

In addition, Google services nearly all require the user to run nonfree software (written in Javascript).

Afghan journalists suspect that the attempts on their life come from a Taliban-supporting "fifth column" inside the Afghan government.

China has adopted a law against domestic violence.

Chinese society before the revolution was very very sexist.