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Derek Keats posts this nice link to a talk by Egan Moglen bemoaning the loss of anonymity and personal freedom on the net. "Without anonymity the human race will not be human any more... Every morning I see people wearing dog collars, reporting their location ever 70 seconds to Steven K Jobs." He describes a thing called the 'freedom box', a server stack you can have in your home, that will provide you with the services and networking you need if net services are shut down. Played it on Ed Radio during a Google Plus hangout. I also played this video by Moglen, 'How I discovered Free Software and met RMS'.

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