It's Repair Day: No One Should Be Punished for "Contempt of Business Model".

Many manufacturers of "smart" devices refuses to say whether they use them to spy on customers for the state.

The article exaggerates tremendously when it claims that avoiding snooper devices is "near impossible". To avoid them in your own home may be a little harder than falling off a log, but you can do it. We should, I believe, reject any device which delivers data to a company's server.

To be sure, I won't complain about the detection of murderers and crooks; that, in itself, is good. What worries me is that the same power can easily be turned against laudable "criminals" such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. It is very good to catch real terrorists, but dissidents are often labeled as "terrorists", and all the same surveillance methods are used to catch them.

The US government (specifically, the Department of Hostility and Sadism) seizes refurbished Apple batteries, calling them "counterfeit".

We should not allow companies such as Apple any excuse to block the supply of independent replacement parts.

Ajit Pai, and Florida Governor Scott, say they are disappointed with how slowly phone companies are restoring service in the areas hit by the hurricane. Their own deregulatory policies encouraged this problem.

The prince (and acting king) of Salafi Arabia is trying to put the blame for Khashoggi's murder on a henchman who boasts of his total obedience to the prince.