"What the Charlie Hebdo attacks reveal about our thorny relationship with Satire" (Salon)

"The Limits of Satire", by Tim Parks (New York Review of Books)

"Unmournable bodies", by Teju Cole (New Yorker)

Civil society organisations (CSOs) are being bombarded with persistent and disruptive targeted digital attacks, finds a new research report by the University of Toronto's CitizenLab titled Communities @ Risk.

A worldwide survey has found that 64% of respondents are more concerned today about online privacy than they were one year ago - though a much smaller percentage have taken additional steps to protect their privacy.

Former NSA hacker Jim Penrose offers some advice. (The Guardian)

Whatsapp has implemented end-to-end encryption for Android users - an upgrade to its privacy protections that makes it nearly impossible for anyone to read users’ messages—even the company itself.  (Wired)

Also read: What is end-to-end encryption? (Wired)

Reviews of Gabriella Coleman's book on Anonymous by:
Cory Doctorow, for The Spectator
Jamie Bartlett, for The Guardian

New report by Global Witness sheds light on what’s driving the high number of killings of environmental defenders in Peru, in the wake of the murder of anti-logging activist Edwin Chota earlier this year.

"We despise them - yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. They unlock much more than our accounts". (NYT Magazine)

Also read: FBI’s most wanted cybercriminal used his cat’s name as a password. (ArsTechnica)

New research by Tom Longley (who is also one of our Programme Advisors) and Dr Savita Bailur (Web Foundation), commissioned by mySociety.

Adam Rothstein takes a deeper look at mesh networks. (Rhizome)