The Lippard Blog

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2019. Graham T. Allison, Destined for War: Can Ame...

I've been reading Ross Anderson's epic tome, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (2nd edition,...

I was asked earlier today if I could give my opinion on whether the work-from-home opportunity advertised at the domain onlineprofitmasterss...

I recently had a few opportunities on a plane to catch up on some reading and podcasts.  A few of the more interesting things I came acros...

The title of this post is the title of my multi-book review article in the current issue of Skeptic magazine , which is primarily about las...

As this blog has reported on multiple prior occasions (in 2006 , 2008 , and 2009 , at the very least), the fact that U.S. airport security s...

As a result of the investigative reporting of Radley Balko, Cory Maye is about to be released from prison after ten years of incarceration ...

LulzSec breached the security of the Arizona Department of Public Service (DPS) at some point in the past, and on June 23 around 4 p.m. Ariz...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ CD8) was shot this morning at an event at a Tucson grocery store, along with several other people.  The Tucson...

From CNN : A Florida woman has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a lottery millionaire whose body was fo...

Via Pharyngula , a video rebuttal to a recent Bill O'Reilly show claim that Amsterdam's drug policies are a failure that has led it ...

I've been collecting data about IPs that have been attempting to spam my mail server for the past few months, and today I decided to tak...

TechCrunch has published "The Anatomy of the Twitter Attack," a detailed account of how "Hacker Croll" used people'...

Part two of the three-part series in the St. Petersburg Times on Scientology has been published, and it's a detailed account of the dea...

"It's important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full investigation. In other words, we want to know t...

There's FUD spreading about Sec. 14 of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 , maintaining that it amounts to an effective repeal of the 4th Ame...

From the Philadelphia Daily News : ON A SWELTERING July afternoon in 2007, Officer Jeffrey Cujdik and his narcotics squad members raided an ...

Portugal decriminalized drugs in 2001, and Glenn Greenwald discusses the evidence that he says shows it has been "an unquestionable su...

Remember how the press was all over the story of the 29-year-old millionaire white supremacist and fan of Adolf Hitler in Maine who was buil...

Jeff Jacobsen has a new article on Scientology's use of religious R-1 visas to bring people from other countries to the U.S. to work at...