Internet critic Evgeny Morozov puts this position in no uncertain terms: "Hacktivists keep supplying the industry with strong examples as to why more public money should be spent beefing up Internet security and surveillance while eliminating online ...

As Evgeny Morozov writes in "The Net Delusion," repressive governments are becoming smarter about how to control and influence the information environment online, going as far as to track dissidents and hack their communications.

"Anyone who thinks we will be using Roundup [a herbicide] in eight [thousand] to 10000 years is foolish," argued organic evangelist Jeff Moyer, farm director the Rodale Institute, at the New America Foundation event. But there is unlikely to be a ...

Merrill has formed an advisory board with members including Sascha Meinrath from the New America Foundation; former NSA technical director Brian Snow; and Jacob Appelbaum from the Tor Project. "I have no doubt that such an organization would be ...