The Guardian

New Orleans: an unethical District Attorney and an overworked Public Defender

Prosecuted by her legal counterpart: ‘It destroyed my life in so many ways’ This DA should resign, now: At least six defense attorneys and investigators say they faced threats of criminal charges by the Orleans parish district attorney for doing their jobs, the Guardian has found. Since …

Heartbleed: When no encryption is better than bad encryption

Heartbleed: When no encryption is better than bad encryptionAlex Hern reports for The Guardian this disturbing fact about the recently disclosed OpenSSL bug, now two years old and pervasive: servers vulnerable to Heartbleed are less secure than they would be if they simply had no encryption at all. …

NYT managing editor: Guardian story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not 'Surprising' Enough to Cover

NYT managing editor: Guardian story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not ‘Surprising’ Enough to CoverNew York Times news editor Dean Baquet suffered a serious lapse in editorial judgment. I mean, he can’t be serious, can he?

How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room

How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front roomEliot Higgins’ work is a prime example of how the Internet and user generated content are changing journalism on a molecular level. What a fascinating read.

Amazon's "phantom" 20% VAT for UK ebook sales

Amazon’s “phantom” 20% VAT for UK ebook salesIan Griffiths and Dan Milmo of The Guardian, quoting ” a contract seen by the Guardian,” presumably between Amazon and one of its UK publishing “partners”: If the base price exceeds the base price … provided to a similar service then … …