How Likely is the TSA to Catch a Subway Bomber? Not very. (July 17, 2013)
(PHOTO: REUTERS/Jason Reed. A TSA agent dons rubber gloves at Washington Reagan National Airport. Courtesy of Boing boing.) On July 4th, there were…
Category: Privacy
Restore the 4th! (July 3, 2013)
On this July 4th, the Massachusetts Pirate Party joins with the Restore the 4th coalition to protest our government’s continuing efforts to subvert…
Get to know the Swarm (June 30, 2013)
Screw Democracy. We’re On a Mission From God!” How can you resist a title like that? Welcome to chapter 6 of Swarmwise by…
Why the US needs a Party of Open (June 21, 2013)
In December 2005, the New York Times published an eye-opening story: the National Security Agency (NSA) was given authorization to tap into the…
Support the #MassWiretap Campaign! (June 19, 2013)
At our June 16th General Meeting, we signed on to #MassWiretap campaign: We, the undersigned, call on the Massachusetts legislature to reject proposals…
NSA’s Turnkey Tyranny (June 10, 2013)
The recent revelations by journalist Glenn Greenwald and whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have shed a welcome light on the mass surveillance…
Ridicule the NSA this Saturday! (June 7, 2013)
We need you to help send a message on Saturday that we will not tolerate the NSA collecting the phone records of everyone…
CISPA Still Threatens Civil Liberties (May 2, 2013)
Posted on behalf of fellow Pirate Kendra Moyer LATEST UPDATE While CISPA passed in the House of Representatives on April 18th, as of…
Privacy and Security Talk Tonight, 6pm, Boston (April 24, 2013)
Today, I will be speaking with Alex Marthews of warrantless.org, Gregg Housh and others at a panel on privacy and security in the…
House Passes CISPA Again, Resist it in the Senate (April 22, 2013)
Yet again the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), this time by a vote of 288 to 127.…