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In a recent talk in Berlin, Micah L. Sifry examined what the examples of Swartz, Lessig, Assange & Snowdon have to teach the transparency movement. “We need to ask whether the lone hacker hero archetype makes for a healthy and strong movement, ” he says. The text of his talk can be read on Techpresident.

Also: From the New York Review of Books, “The three leakers and what to do about them”.