New stories by Londonboy, lthrjock, Rdyroger, Richard Jasper and screamingmoist

New stories:

• The Creation of Mr. G 2 by Londonboy
• Facets 4 by screamingmoist
• The Salt Interlude: The Gym Bunny by RdyRoger
• Undercover by lthrjock
• Wow by Richard Jasper

The Kindle burns

• Why Amazon went Big Brother on some Kindle e-books
• Amazon Says It Will Stop Deleting Kindle Books
• Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly
• How Amazon's remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning's digital future
• Jeff Bezos apologizes for Amazon's actions--Sorry, but this episode and another one by Barnes & Noble have proven the cost of licensing DRM'd content is not worth it. Better to buy the hardcopy that you own.

Breach of privacy

• Network Solutions Suffers Large Data Breach
• Card Processor Admits to Large Data Breach--And announced it on the day of Obama's inauguration hoping it wouldn't get much coverage. Good luck with that.
• Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data--But doesn't email users about it.
• Hackers hit Monster.com's customer data again.
• Aussie stumbles on 19,000 exposed credit card numbers
• Visa and MasterCard Issue New Breach Warning
• Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
• Sony Dinged $1 Million for Child-Privacy Breach

Identity indemnities

• Four million British identities are up for sale on the internet
• Registered with the do-not-call list? Expect more calls, says consumer watchdog--Oh the irony. Why are these lists even on sale in the first place?
• 21 million German bank accounts - yours for only €12m
• Hackers hold hospital histories hostage
• Your records for sale to the highest bidder

Happy 7th Anniversary!

I suppose a Happy 7th Anniversary is in order despite the site being at an ebb, but I'm not sure when the tide will turn as work continues to come in ever increasing waves, and so far I've managed to keep my head above water at the expense of the free time I used to have. And if ever I do need to submerse myself into work even more, I'll let you guys know.

New stories:

• The Bet 4 by Jaypat
• BMOC Beat Down by cicero
• The Creation of Mr. G by Londonboy
• Facets 3 by screamingmoist
• The Freak Show by Redkage
• Marooned 4 by BBMSN
• No Strings Attached 3 by muscl4life
• Retrospective by Richard Jasper Updated 31 Jul 09
• Ripped Van Winkle 3 by dymondbolt
• The Salt 9 by RdyRoger

Wiretaps

• Illegal, and Pointless
• Spy Memo Author to America: No Apologies for Tapping You
• Bush’s Secret NSA Spying May Have Tainted Prosecutions, Report Warns
• New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ
• Ninth Circuit rejects gov't appeal in wiretap case
• Report: Bush's surveillance program larger than previously thought
• Report: NSA surveillance program too secret for its own good
• U.S. Wiretaps Were of Limited Value, Officials Report

Froomkin

• Froomkin Departs, Leaving Angry Loyalists And Questions
• Why Did the Washington Post Sack Dan Froomkin?
• The Froomkin firing
• White House Watch--Froomkin's last column on the Washington Post
• Dan Froomkin hired by The Huffington Post

New stories by Aardvark, CallMeCrazy, Jaypat, Londonboy, lthrjock, RdyRoger and Redkage

New stories:

• The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash 5 by Londonboy
• The Bet 3 by Jaypat
• Hunter 18: Unrequited Love by Aardvark
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 01:00 by CallMeCrazy
• New Year's Resolution 13 by lthrjock
• The Salt 8 by RdyRoger
• Teacher's Pet 13 by Redkage

Gays and Education

• School can expel lesbian students, court rules
• Pro-Gay Sites Filtered From Tennessee Students
• ACLU Sues School Districts for Blocking Gay-Rights Web Sites
• At Whitman, A Protest Over Poet's Lifestyle
• My bullied son's last day on Earth

A Gay, Gay, Gay World

• Gay sex decriminalised in India
• Dutch signs point to gay sex seekers
• Peru 'bar gay people from police'
• Uruguay to lift ban on gays in the military
• United States endorses U.N. gay rights text