Aram Zucker-Scharff

The, perhaps ultimately futile, rise of the cypherpunk.:

Back in distant, halcyon 2010, I was asked to write something about Wikileaks and its Cablegate scandal. So, I wrote a rather melancholy ess…

Cyberpunk’s pop documentary master Bruce Sterling has a long essay on what he calls Cypherpunk. A revolution in which, like phreakers broke open Ma Bell, and hackers liberated data simply because they could, rebel decoders and data custodians challenge the nature of democracy in the digital age. 

But more than that, claims Sterling, they challenge it and they fail, because declassification isn’t enough to challenge the stand-alone strength of “institutional deceits.”

The internet (and the country) continue to react to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the extremest church’s hurtful speech is still protected under the first amendment.

AOL has acquired the Huffington Post and put Arianna Huffington in charge of their content as editor in chief. This is a big deal, in more ways then one. The price of the Huffington Post was $315 million.

Some company (whose website is down) may or may not have invented this really cool looking tablet computer called the NoteSlate. Supposedly this device will be out in June and will retail for $99. They announced it a while back, but the internet just noticed now. It uses eInk and is monochromatic.