by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
Speaking of the anonymous-websurfing tool Tor, as we were two posts ago, Bloomberg Business reports that Russian efforts to crack the system, which is popular with dissidents in authoritiative places like, for example, Russia, have failed: The Kremlin was willing to...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
NHPR uses me for occasional easy content, so it’s only fair that I use them for occasional easy blog posts. For example, this one – which urges you to check out my discussion with New Hampshire All Things Considered host Peter Biello about that most...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
I did my best not to sound ignorant on the NH Public Radio talk show The Exchange today, discussing the West Lebanon, NH, library that got in a bit of a kerfuffle over hosting a Tor node. You can listen to it at their website here – it starts about 40 minutes...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
The Globe reports (here) that Circle Internet Financial in Boston has gotten the first bitcoin-dealing license (“bitlicense,” of course) from New York state. Circle Internet Financial, based in Boston, has outlined security, capitalization, controls...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog
When it comes to supplements, you and I are guinea pigs, unlike with real drugs, where lab rats (and sometimes guinea pigs) are the guinea pigs. Vox explains why in a good article (read it here) today: To remove a supplement from the market, the FDA first has to prove...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
Albino animals don’t usually do well in the wild, because they’re easy to be spotted by prey and predators when it’s not snowy (there’s a reason that snowshoe hares change color as winter comes) and because melanin is important in the...
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