This Day in Blogging History: Black Code: Spies in cyberspace; HOWTO parody without takedown; Goog's principles forspyware

One year ago today Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation: Ronald Diebert's new book Black Code is an amazing account of how cops, spies and crooks all treat the Internet as the same kind of thing: a tool for getting information out of people without their knowledge or consent, and how they end up in a kind of emergent conspiracy to erode the net's security to further their own ends.