Recommended:

####Cyber Law, Tech and Policy

+ [How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?](http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/a-necessary-evil-what-it-takes-for-democracy-to-survive-surveillance/): Richard Stallman at Wired. Also recently by Stallman: [Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before](http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/why-free-software-is-more-important-now-than-ever-before/).

+ [Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet](http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/149481/): Bruce Schneier at Wired. Key takeaway: it’s hard to avoid the NSA (or, perhaps more accurately, it’s very, very inconvenient).

+ [Special Report: The Obama Administration and the Press – Leak Investigations and Surveillance in post-9/11 America](https://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php): CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists).