- They're reading our mail (email, that is). More on Carnivore. FBI Gets Deadline on E-Mail Inquiry which means they have to release information on the inner workings of Carnivore by mid-August. Personally, I'm deploying OpenSSH.
- More for the crypto-minded: Inside Echelon is a history, structure and function of the global surveillance system know as Echelon. There's not much new information, but it's pulled together nicely in one place here.
- Before the Body's Cold is an obituary for Mozilla. Appropriate. I'm using either iCab or Internet Explorer (the MacHack edition) for all my browsing recently. Mozilla is just late, fat, and ugly.
- On kottke.org july 20, 2000, Jason mentions a cool bit of geek jargon. I like it.
- On a more personal note, the rats with fuzzy tails have gnawed off all of my neighbors sunflowers. I think he needs this solution to squirrel problem suggested by Dr. Fun.