Your Home’s Router is Spying on You

It must be spy on American’s week given posts on law enforcement asking for your cell data and how the NSA is going to expand its spying on Americans on a massive scale.  Now we have this: Cisco Systems told users of its new high-end home routers — in a...

NSA to Spy on Everyone… Everyone.

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to...

Cell Carriers Asked for Your Data

In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a startling 1.3 million demands for subscriber information last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages, caller locations and other information in the...

Dick Morris on Obama’s Motivations

There’s something too this: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdTyUvY66Mw?rel=0] There is a similar situation going on with gun control in the states.  The argument is always”we need the federal government to control all guns because they travel from...

Gotta Love American Ingenuity (& Tax Avoidance)

So I’m reading two stories (here and here) about a new law that will effectively outlaw Roll-Your-Own tobacco stores.  It’s something I kinda follow because I always thought it was a decent business model (until the government outlaws your business) and...