Eben Moglen is a law professor at Columbia University.

As well as the Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center.

He’s also a well-known privacy advocate.

Eben Moglen is a very well respected in high-tech circles.

So why has he gotten into the habit of [more...]

I don’t get that cable channel, so I’ve never seen the TV show, Mythbusters.

But I occasionally read stories about it, describing how the show’s hosts do tests to either confirm or disprove popular myths and old-wives’ tales.

From what I’ve seen, I think it would be really fun to work on that type of show; getting paid to entertain and educate people by making messes and having fun. [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal — and those who follow technology news — know that personal privacy is becoming a very rare commodity on the Internet.

And one of the biggest influences on the demise of personal privacy has been Facebook.

Over the years, Facebook’s leadership has repeatedly expressed disdain for those of us who value our privacy; and their company has [more...]

Babies are cute. They lay there and smile and giggle and gurgle and drool.

They’re a lot of work — but at least they stay in one place.

Once they learn to walk, however, it takes exponentially more work to keep them safe and out of trouble.

Especially if you’re alone with your two preschool kids, and you [more...]

I’ll bet that you’ve ridden in an airplane at least a few times in your life.

So you know the sense of exhilaration that can come from rushing down the runway at breakneck speed, on the way to liftoff.

But I’ll bet you’ve never experienced the feelings that come from having people chasing your plane.

And firing a [more...]

Many years ago, when my wife would visit her family up north, one of the things that we did to pass the time was play board games.

My wife and her brothers preferred Risk but that game was too cut-throat for my tastes, and I nearly always lost at it, so, when I finally won, I declared that my Risk days were over, and I never played it again.

Instead, I started a new tradition — [more...]

A few decades ago, my wife and I lived in northwest Ohio, out in the country, south of Toledo.

I understand that the area has since become pretty suburbanized, but, back then, it was mostly miles of flat farmland, occassionally punctuated by old, wood-frame farmhouses.

One day, while driving past one of those farmhouses, about a [more...]

If you’re a Seattle supercriminal, bent on taking over the world, I don’t think you have to worry about him.

But if you’re a normal citizen, and your friends and you like to make noise and act rowdy in public, then you’d better beware.

Because self-professed superhero, Phoenix Jones — in a fully-padded superhero costume — patrols the streets of [more...]