Cyrus Farivar

"Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet."

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Russian keyboard Belarus not restricting Internet access after all? January 5 Update: Here’s what I edited for Deutsche Welle today: Contrary to reports, Belarus plans no Internet censorhip So...
monday.bread Cyrus’ Potato Bread Apologies for not updating the blog super often. Usually I’m more active on Facebook/Twitter, so follow me there if you...
Ganvie Stilt Village Interview with Marie Javins, traveler extraordinaire I first encountered Marie Javins (@mariejavins) online sometime back in December of 2005. I was totally impressed by her 2001...
iphone2 My iPhone tracking data So in the wake of this iPhone tracking data scandal I did what a lot of people did — download...
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  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/ario/78410851/0March 30, 2011

    Comodohacker speaks

    I wrote an article about the Comodo hack for Deutsche Welle here. The following is an introduction to the full interview (further below) with Comodohacker. On March 15, 2011, a...
  • twitter10March 27, 2011

    Portrait of a year in Bonn

    Crazy to believe. Our one-year anniversary of arriving in Bonn was on Friday. I’m trying to run through a mental list of all of the things that we’ve done, seen,...
  • WikiLeaks1December 29, 2010

    Fmr. US State Dept. official in Tehran Henry Precht on WikiLeaks

    The following message was sent to the Gulf2000 email list on December 19, 2010 and is re-printed here below with his permission. Henry Precht is a retired Foreign Service officer...
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    Cyrus Farivar
    سیروس فریور

    English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
    Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]


    Freelance Technology Journalist
    Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
    Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"

    cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org

    Current location: Bonn, Germany

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