Danny O'Brien

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• Commented on Intro to TOR: how you can be an anti-censorship activist in your sleep
  I set up a tor bridge relay pretty recently on my home machine. If you have a directed wish to provide services to dissident groups in authoritarian regimes, running a bridge relay makes a lot of sense -- these are...
• Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
  The other key point about not having an iPod is that Apple deliberately cripples the music player so that you can't use anything *but* iTunes to transfer music to it (they store an encoded magic number with the music file...
• Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
  #38 -- ACTA originated under the Bush administration; the Obama administration opted to continue with the same policy. #16, #40 -- ACTA's digital chapter looks like they'll be based on IP provisions in the US/South Korean (and other) free trade...
• Commented on Spots Unknown - a great blog about San Francisco
  The synchronization of the music and the images is great!...
• Commented on Little Brother wins the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction
  There's a rich tradition of left-libertarians since the beginning of the libertarian movement. Although, frankly, given the tarnishing much of the core movement has suffered by hitching its fate with recent corporatist big-government warmongering Republicans, I would be surprised if...
• Commented on Lazyweb: turn the new version of Opera into an unstoppable grid of proxies for Iranians
  #8, #9 -- No, you only go through Opera servers if Unite can't punch through your NAT. It's a direct connection otherwise....
• Commented on Lazyweb: turn the new version of Opera into an unstoppable grid of proxies for Iranians
  #1, #2, #3: I mention Tor as the far better solution in the article. Here's the paragraph: A better solution, I know, is to get copies of Tor to those in Iran. But I think that much of what we’re...
• Commented on Ecstatic epilepsy seizures
  #9 - You can get Greg Egan's "Reasons to be Cheerful" as an $0.80 ebook from FictionWise. It is indeed a great story....
• Favorited EFF Bootcamp on privacy and UGC for startups, May 11 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Vietnam's amazing phone-unlockers on Boing Boing
• Favorited Hackers working on cracking the Googlephone's firmware on Boing Boing
• Favorited SF artist makes a temple to science on Boing Boing
• Favorited Help design a cipher for my crypto wedding-rings! on Boing Boing
• Favorited Living on the Edge: Danny O'Brien's talk about moving our personal info off Web 2.0 and onto our computers on Boing Boing
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• Favorited Swedish journalists march on Parliament to oppose wiretapping bill on Boing Boing
• Favorited Swedish journalists march on Parliament to oppose wiretapping bill on Boing Boing
• Favorited Baby bounces gleefully to mom's banjo playing on Boing Boing
• Favorited Peter Watt's Blindsight - breakout novel under CC on Boing Boing
• Favorited Villagers from three continents will confront Chevron execs at annual meeting on Boing Boing
• Favorited Villagers from three continents will confront Chevron execs at annual meeting on Boing Boing
• Favorited Hypocrite GOP House Leader Boehner wants wiretapping protection -- but only for himself on Boing Boing
• Favorited Hypocrite GOP House Leader Boehner wants wiretapping protection -- but only for himself on Boing Boing
• Favorited SF City Dump's artist-in-residence shows off garbage-built carny games on Boing Boing
• Favorited SF City Dump's artist-in-residence shows off garbage-built carny games on Boing Boing
• Favorited French Parliament Say Non to Sarkozy-style "Three Strikes" Internet rule on Boing Boing
• Favorited French Parliament Say Non to Sarkozy-style "Three Strikes" Internet rule on Boing Boing
• Favorited Adoption and corruption: human trafficking busts in Guatemala on Boing Boing
• Favorited Adoption and corruption: human trafficking busts in Guatemala on Boing Boing