The Dude
abides.How does one deal with a free software hacker who has subversively started to work against the free software movement itself? Especially a high profile hacker?
I was made aware of news to this effect today and I can’t help but feel upset. It feels like a having a traitor within our midst, doesn’t it?
Sigh. I [...]
I’ve finished reading US presidential candidate Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope. It’s really an introduction to the man himself; the book itself has little content that a well exposed reader would not otherwise already know.
The thing about the man is that he’s smart and he gets the issues, in a way that Bush would [...]
In two previous blog posts, The Future of Online Liberty in Malaysia and Registering to be a voter in Malaysia, I outlined my prediction that the Malaysian goverment will move towards controlling freedom of speech online. Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob (Barison National representative) said as much today when he noted that:
“We notice that a lot [...]
The deadline to register as a voter in Malaysia is on the 31st of March 2007. Call me cynical but what sense does it make for one to register ourselves as voters when elections are rigged and gerry-mandering is all too common? I don’t see the logic - perhaps someone can convince me otherwise.
In other [...]
I boldly make a prediction: “Online liberty in Malaysia is doomed (in five years)“. I may be wrong about the timeline but I am willing to bet good money that the current liberties we enjoy online will be gone and be dead as the dodo is.
I am basing this prediction on the annual letter from [...]
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