J.R.McHale

> [Opinion: The Reasonable Expectation Fallacy](http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Passcode-Voices/2015/0617/Opinion-The-reasonable-expectation-fallacy) – Dan Geer writing at CSM’s Passcode

> The Intercept on XKEYSCORE: [XKEYSCORE: NSA’S Google for the World’s Private Communications](https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications/) and [Behind the Curtain; a Look at the Inner Workings of NSA’s XKEYSCORE](https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/02/look-under-hood-xkeyscore/)

> [Hackers Installed Sophisticated Malware on U.S. Computers. Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?;
The Worm was Designed to Gather Intelligence on the Ongoing Iranian Nuclear Talks](http://reason.com/archives/2015/07/04/hackers-installed-duqu-2-malware) – Reason on the Duqu2 worm

> [Cyber-Espionage Nightmare; A Groundbreaking Online-spying Case Unearths Details that Companies Wish You Didn’t Know About How Vital Information Slips Away From Them](http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/538201/cyber-espionage-nightmare/) – MIT Technology Review

> [Introducing the ‘Right to Eavesdrop on Your Things’; Data Privacy is a Big Enough Deal that Americans Need a New Right](http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/06/internet-of-things-privacy-concerns-000107) – Stanford professor Keith Winstein at Politico

> [Presentation](http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/6/19/presentation-mobile-is-eating-the-world) by Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz on how “Mobile is Eating the World”

> [As More Tech Start-Ups Stay Private, So Does the Money](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/technology/personaltech/as-more-tech-start-ups-stay-private-so-does-the-money.html?emc=edit_tu_20150702&nl=technology&nlid=34482325) – Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times

> [The Rabbit-Hole of ‘Relevant’](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/the-rabbit-hole-of-relevant.html?_r=5) – Mattathias Schwartz in the New York Times:
>> “When a law has a name like ‘Patriot’ or ‘Freedom,’ it’s a sign that you should read the fine print. Somewhere down there, in the terraced subclauses of some forgettable subsection, is a word with a special meaning, a word that offers shelter and concealment to whatever it is that the law actually does.”

> Three Pieces on the Open Web: Dave Winer – [Key Concept of the Open Web: Working Together](http://scripting.com/2015/06/24/keyConceptOfTheOpenWebWorkingTogether.html); David Weinberger – [The Internet That Was (and Still Could Be); As Corporations Like Facebook Gain Control Over More and More Online Activities, the Web’s Core Values are at Stake](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/medium-is-the-message-paradise-paved-internet-architecture/396227/); and Dries Buyteart – [Winning back the Open Web](http://buytaert.net/winning-back-the-open-web).

> [The Wait-for-Google-to-Do-It Strategy; America’s Communications ­Infrastructure is Finally Getting Some Crucial Upgrades Because One Company is Forcing ­Competition When Regulators Won’t](http://www.technologyreview.com/review/538411/the-wait-for-google-to-do-it-strategy/) – MIT Technology Review

> [A New Wave of US Internet Companies is Succeeding in China—By Giving the Government What it Wants](http://qz.com/435764/a-new-wave-of-us-internet-companies-is-succeeding-in-china-by-giving-the-government-what-it-wants/) – Josh Horowitz at Quartz

> [The End of Advertising As We Know It](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/end-advertising-we-know-michael-wolff) – Michael Wolff