Upcoming Cryptoparties (January 1, 2015)
After a long hiatus, we have four cryptoparties coming up in the next two months. On Saturday, Jan. 10th, 11am-3pm, there is a…
Category: Issues
Nope, No Public Records Enforcement Here (December 31, 2014)
Before last November’s election, the Bay State Examiner did a story about a debate between candidates for Secretary of the Commonwealth. One of…
Mass Pirates Endorse Statement of Solidarity Against Online Harassment (December 28, 2014)
Earlier this year, a member of the Tor project was subject to online harassment. The Tor project responded with a statement of Solidarity…
Vote for dates for last two planning meetings of 2014 (November 20, 2014)
We decided to have two in-person meetings before the end of the year. One will be in the Boston area. The other will…
USA Freedom Act is Dead, Section 215 Next (November 19, 2014)
The watered down USA Freedom Act did not clear the Senate yesterday, though Senators Warren and Markey voted for its cloture motion. Back…
Oppose the USA Freedom Act! (November 18, 2014)
The original USA Freedom Act had some merit. Then the House watered it down. Now the Senate is considering voting on a less…
Call for Net Neutrality propaganda to be in 12/15 SCATV broadcast (November 17, 2014)
We have an opportunity as Pirates to bring our own point of view and make a program about net neutrality at SCATV, to…
Four Three-letter Agencies weigh in on ICREACH (November 16, 2014)
In August 2014, the Intercept published a story about ICREACH, a distributed query system developed by the NSA, and used by the FBI,…
Boston for Net Neutrality!, Today, 6:30pm (November 13, 2014)
After Obama came out for net neutrality as a result of our protests last Thursday, we are working to keep the pressure on…
Pirate Social, Sunday, 6pm (November 7, 2014)
We will be meeting Sunday night for a Pirate Social to meet a Pirate from Japan. It will be a great opportunity to…