A crack of the servers of Hacking Team obtained information proving it sells to repressive countries.

One of Hacking Team's sales partners, a US company, gets lots of help and support from the US government in selling to a repressive state.

The US is training a total of 60 Syrian rebels. No more than that could pass the admissions criteria.

The criteria are surely not overly strict. What the low number shows is that this approach isn't going to work.

It might be more effective to train westerners to join the fight among the Syrian Kurds.

Bruce Schneier: David Cameron's Proposed Encryption Ban Would 'Destroy the Internet'.

It would destroy human rights in the UK, too.

Icann Plan to End Website Anonymity 'Could Lead to Swatting Attacks'.

The US should end swatting entirely by limiting the use of SWAT teams to situations where they are really necessary. Most SWAT teams should be eliminated.

With music streaming disservices such as Apple Play, the major record companies and Apple are arranging for suckers to pay a substantial amount every month to keep listening to the same music.

If the sucker ever stops paying, all the music will become inaccessible.

Don't be a sucker.