The Nexus of 2024

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  • FISA: How will the Obama administration respond on immunity?

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    Justice Department attorney Carl Nichols didn’t get through his first full sentence defending the constitutionality of retroactive immunity for spying telecom carriers before U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker interrupted to ask about President-elect Barack Obama. “We are going to have new attorney general,” Walker interjected in Tuesday morning’s hearing in a San Francisco courthouse. “Why…

  • Happy birthday, EFF!

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    EFF’s 17th birthday party is tonight at 111 Minna in San Francisco.  Cleverly timed to coincide with Macworld, it features Adrian and the Mysterious D of Bootie fame, and is sponsored by Louis Rosetto’s (of Wired) new chocolate company TCHO.  And they’ll be beta-testing TCHO’s new dark chocolates! [Hmm … DJs, mashups, chocolate.  What does…