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Spook Country

While I was camping this weekend, I read the entirety of the new William Gibson novel, Spook Country. As Cory Doctorow has mentioned, it is set in the far off, futuristic year of 2006. The technologies in it and the paranoia of its world are those of our own. Like Pattern Recognition, Gibson gives up [...]

Thunderbird and Encrypting E-mail

I originally wrote this for my main blog at Arcanology.com because of an interest in encrypting e-mail. A few friends had asked me about it and I’ve just started doing this (and signing mail). Since it is using Mozilla technology, it seemed appropriate to post here as well. It isn’t strictly related to my QA [...]