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Revealed: the amazing cover for Walkaway, my first adult novel since 2009
Next April, Tor Books will publish Walkaway, the first novel I’ve written specifically for adults since 2009; it’s scheduled to be their lead title for the season and they’ve hired the brilliant...
View ArticleHow security and privacy pros can help save the web from legal threats over...
I have a new op-ed in today’s Privacy Tech, the in-house organ of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, about the risks to security and privacy from the World Wide Web Consortium’s...
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You are not a wallet: complaining considered helpful
My new Guardian column, It’s your duty to complain – that’s how companies improve, is a rebuttal to those who greet public complaints about businesses’ actions with, “Well, just don’t buy from them,...
View ArticleHow we will keep the Decentralized Web decentralized: my talk from the...
At yesterday’s Internet Archive Decentralized Web Summit, the afternoon was given over to questions of security and policy. I gave the opening talk, “How Stupid Laws and Benevolent Dictators can Ruin...
View ArticleVideo: Guarding the Decentralized Web from its founders’ human frailty
Earlier this month, I gave the afternoon keynote at the Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web Summit, speaking about how the people who are building a new kind of decentralized web can guard against...
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How to protect the future web from its founders’ own frailty
Earlier this month, I gave the afternoon keynote at the Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web Summit, and my talk was about how the people who founded the web with the idea of having an open,...
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I’m profiled in the Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine
The monthly Report on Business magazine in the Canadian national paper The Globe and Mail profiled my work on DRM reform, as well as my science fiction writing and my work on Boing Boing. I’m grateful...
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Peak indifference: privacy as a public health issue
My latest Locus column, “Peak Indifference”, draws a comparison between the history of the “debate” about the harms of smoking (a debate manufactured by disinformation merchants with a stake in the...
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As browsers decline in relevance, they’re becoming DRM timebombs
My op-ed in today’s issue of The Tech, MIT’s leading newspaper, describes how browser vendors and the W3C, a standards body that’s housed at MIT, are collaborating to make DRM part of the core...
View ArticleMy interview on Utah Public Radio’s “Access Utah”
Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist Cory Doctorow joins us for Tuesday’s AU. In a recent column, Doctorow says that “all the data collected in giant databases today will breach...
View ArticleEFF is suing the US government to invalidate the DMCA’s DRM provisions
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just filed a lawsuit that challenges the Constitutionality of Section 1201 of the DMCA, the “Digital Rights Management” provision of the law, a notoriously...
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My Kansas City World Science Fiction Convention schedule
I’m flying into Kansas City for part of Midamericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, and while there, I’ll be on panels, give a reading, and sit down with fans for a kaffeeklatsch....
View ArticlePodcast: How we’ll kill all the DRM in the world, forever
I’m keynoting the O’Reilly Security Conference in New York in Oct/Nov, so I stopped by the O’Reilly Security Podcast (MP3) to explain EFF’s Apollo 1201 project, which aims to kill all the DRM in the...
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Podcast: Live from HOPE on Radio Statler
While I was in NYC to keynote the 11th Hackers on Planet Earth convention, I sat down with the Radio Statler folks and explained what I was going to talk about, as well as bantering with the hosts...
View ArticleTalking about the pro-security, anti-DRM business model on the O’Reilly Radar...
On this just-released episode of the O’Reilly Radar podcast (MP3), I talk about EFF’s lawsuit against the US government to invalidate Section 1201 of the DMCA, which will make it legal to break DRM in...
View ArticleSee you at Burning Man!
I’m about to switch off my email until September 5 and drive to Black Rock City for 10 days of incinerating the dude. If you’re going this year, drop by Liminal Labs — with whom I am immensely...
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The privacy wars have been a disaster and they’re about to get a LOT worse
In my latest Locus column, The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot Worse, I describe the history of the privacy wars to date, and the way that the fiction of “notice and consent” has provided...
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If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it?
Last month, I filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission on behalf of Electronic Frontier Foundation, 22 of EFF’s supporters, and a diverse coalition of rightsholders, public interest groups,...
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How free software stayed free
I did an interview with the Changelog podcast (MP3) about my upcoming talk at the O’Reilly Open Source conference in London, explaining how it is that the free and open web became so closed and...
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Come see me in Portland, Riverside, LA, and San Francisco
I’ve got a busy couple of weeks coming up! I’m speaking tomorrow at Powell’s in Portland, OR for Banned Books Week; on Wednesday, I’m at UC Riverside speaking to a Philosophy and Science Fiction...
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