Twitter and the revolution.  At least that's how The Globe & Mail sees the events in Tehran in the past week.  Protesters are wired, using txt messaging, Facebook, and Twitter to arrange and organise.  Indeed, the State Department even intervened, asking Twitter to re-schedule an update to its service so that protesters in Tehran could continue to use it.  All of this is made possible because Canadian computer scientists have developed a software called Psiphon, which can be used to get around Iranian government censorship of web pages.  At 2pm Eastern time in North America today, The Globe will be having an on-line discussion of the issue here.  

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It seems that there was a snafu somewhere in the food chain of the American government last month, when a list of all civilian nuclear sites and their activities in the US was accidentally posted on-line.  The list was more a book, 266 pages long, and was a document from Obama to Congress that was required by the IAEA.  Parts ofthe document were marked "highly confidential safeguards sensitive."  Media reports point out the obvious security risks of such a document.  Whether or not it is still on-line is not clear, as it was

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