J.R.McHale

> [Why Security Pros Don’t Like Obama’s Proposal for Antihacking Law](http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2015/0406/Why-security-pros-don-t-like-Obama-s-proposal-for-antihacking-law-video) – Christian Science Monitor’s Passcode

> [Edward Snowden’s Impact](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/04/09/edward-snowdens-impact/) – an assessment by law professor Orin Kerr in The Washington Post

> [U.S. Secretly Tracked Billions of Calls for Decades](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/) – USA Today

> [How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union; Condemned as a Capitalist Tool, the Computer Would Help Expose the USSR’s Weakness](http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/how-the-computer-got-its-revenge-on-the-soviet-union) – Nautilus

> [Internet Privacy, Funded by Spooks: A Brief History of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)](http://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-history-of-the-bbg/) – Pando Daily

> [The Anti-Information Age; How Governments are Reinventing Censorship in the 21st Century](http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/government-censorship-21st-century-internet/385528/) – The Atlantic

> [Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep? – The Buzz over Linking Mobile Apps Obscures Links’ True Potential to Create Profound Networks of Knowledge and Share Power More Widely](https://medium.com/backchannel/the-failed-promise-of-deep-links-aa307b3abaa5) – Scott Rosenberg at Medium’s Backchannel

> [The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty) – The New Yorker; the [text of the GNU Manifesto](https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html) written by Richard Stallman at the beginning of the GNU Project in March 1985 (including subsequent clarifying footnotes)

> [No, Entrepreneurs, Most of You Don’t Need Angel Investors or Venture Capitalists](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2015/03/16/no-entrepreneurs-most-of-you-dont-need-angel-investors-or-venture-capitalists/) – Washington Post

> [16 ideas from Marc Andreessen for a More Dynamic US Economy](http://www.aei.org/publication/16-ideas-marc-andreessen-dynamic-us-economy/) – Marc Andreessen’s twitter stream [@pmarca](https://twitter.com/pmarca) (excerpted at the American Enterprise Institute’s public policy blog)

> [4chan’s Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/4chans-overlord-christopher-poole-reveals-why-he-walked-away-20150313) – Rolling Stone

> #### General Interest