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The freedom to fix our stuff

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:00:23 +0000

This week the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial about the right to fix our gadgets. It was surprisingly pro-consumer. The author wrote about a friend whose Samsung TV broke due to $12 worth of capacitors and how he fixed

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Anthem, HIPAA, and encryption

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:00:31 +0000

Late last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Anthem wasn’t encrypting the database containing tens of millions of health records that were stolen by sophisticated hackers. There are numerous problems with that story, the first being that we don’t know

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Taking a stand: Rupert Murdoch and the Chicago Sun-Times

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:15:43 +0000

Some people are ready to throw the entire journalism trade out with the week’s trash thanks to the deepening Rupert Murdoch scandal. But to some people, this wasn’t a surprise at all. In 1984, 60 journalists took a stand against

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Sorry I’ve been away

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:29:59 +0000

I meant to post last night, then I noticed nobody had written a Wikipedia entry for Daniel Pearl. I had to jump on that one. We're talking about a guy who wrote a feature story about Iranian pop music and got it published on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, folks. Who gets those kinds of ideas? And then gets them published in a venue like that?

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