Recommended:
####Cyber Law, Tech and Policy
+ [**Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries and Defend Websites**](http://business.time.com/2013/10/21/google-digital-rebels/): (1) [**uProxy**](http://uproxy.org/), a browser extension that uses p2p technology to enable people to provide others with a trusted internet connection, (2) [**Project Shield**](http://projectshield.withgoogle.com/), to help human-rights activists, NGOs, and news organizations defend their websites from distributed denial of service (DDos) attacks, (3) and [**Digital Attack Map**](http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&time=15999&view=map), a live data visualization, displaying DDoS attacks in real time. In addition to those [**Google-related**](http://www.google.com/ideas/) tools, the **Freedom of the Press Foundation** [**recently launched**](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/10/freedom-press-foundation-launches-securedrop) a confidential, open-source submission platform for whistleblowers: [**SecureDrop**](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/securedrop#faq).
+ [**DOJ Argues No One Has Standing To Challenge Metadata Collection Even As It Says Government Can Legally Collect Everyone’s**](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131016/06414624894/doj-argues-no-one-has-standing-to-challenge-metadata-collection-even-as-it-says-govt-can-legally-collect-everyones.shtml) – **TechDirt**.
+ **But:** [**Door May Open for Challenge to Secret Wiretaps**](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/us/politics/us-legal-shift-may-open-door-for-challenge-to-secret-wiretaps.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all) – **New York Times**.
####General Interest
+ [**Taking Flight From Asia**](http://www.newgeography.com/content/004003-taking-flight-asia) – **Joel Kotkin** at [**New Geography**](http://www.newgeography.com/) on the latest wave of emigration from Asia to parts of the U.S. and Canada.
+ [**Breaking Through Cancer’s Shield**](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/health/breaking-through-cancers-shield.html) – **New York Times**. Are we seeing the dawn of a new era in cancer fighting based upon immunotherapies?
+ [**Now We are Five**](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/28/131028fa_fact_sedaris) – At the **New Yorker,** **David Sedaris** on the death of his youngest sister.
