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Sorry to be nit-picky, but that sounds conspiracy theory-ish. The link you provided does not back-up your claim of the NSA having hacked the Starwood database. The linked article m…

I'm interested in your argument to why fiction is not time "wasted"! Would you mind discussing? I have thought about this a lot and personally only read non-fiction, but am always …

From what's publically known, the email to The Intercept related to their podcast, of which we supposedly was a listener and not to the matter at hand.

Blendle is a solution to a very different problem. Blendle provides unbundling for popular magazines and newspapers, i.e. you can selectively read single articles for It's really w…

From your blog post: "The cables or other releases could be posted on torrent sites, signed by the Wikileaks organization, and it would be just as effective at generating the media…

How can I, as a somewhat proficient non-techie, accomplish that without having to dedicate a 24/7 *nix box from home? Please, if anyone knows a simple, yet elegant solution, I'm al…

It's also ridiculously outdated. It's from 1957 and based on an outdated, traditional understanding of "big" industrial/engineering companies and their employees ("the little guys"…

I read his book, "You are not a gadget", and found it really thought-provoking and inspiring to focus more on real-world stuff I needed to do and less on reading about the ever lat…

Is the most obvious question being adressed in any jurisdiction yet? - Do you legally have to disclose your results to any insurance company you already have an existing contract w…

You have a smart marketing ploy with the "Privacy made in Germany" slogan. Similar to "German engineering", instantly recognizable. Also, great looking product. I wonder though, I …

https://quabel.com/subscribe/hobbyist/ doesn't work for me. "You cannot access this page"

Your site is awesome! I've been looking for a way to read without distractions and without having to enter every single article into instapaper. What many people underestimate is t…

Non-programmer's question: Why is WhatsApp always able to push notifications and why is that different from Sparrow?

I was seriously shocked to see that the iPhone's native client leaked that bad. 2 questions: 1) Is it possible for an app to leak less? 2) Is the 'leakage' already commonly exploit…

One other thing: It can be read on several pastebins that once anon/antisec had secured access to the StratFor data, sabu unsuccessfully tried to get Wikileaks to pay for the data.…

This article consists of a lot of baseless speculations and conjecture. Under German law e.g. there is a clear difference for an agent provocateur to directly incite specific felon…

Which apps do that? Do you have a list? Can anything be done about the data after-the-fact?

Great article from The Economist on what mistakes Kodak made and what led them to bankruptcy compared to Fujifilm: http://www.economist.com/node/21542796

Awesome, so politians now have two large constituencies to milk: big media and internet-savvy technology companies/the general tech-savvy public. See, the only one profiting from t…

You obviously aren't power-crazed, or else you would know exactly how to do it. Reading the recent Vanity Fair (character assassination) piece on Rebekah Brooks[1], you come to rea…

I'm from Germany and you do realize that over here (don't know about the exact differences) privately-insured patients (who opted out off the 'mandatory' insurance scheme) basicall…

Actually, the numbers do add up nicely. The hedge fund industry (notoriously hard to define, alas) is close to $2 trillion in size and has been that way for several years, give or …

If you think the key to maximizing freedom/civil liberties comes from voting for the lesser of evils amongst Democrats and Republicans, you are greatly mistaken. Both care only abo…