The New York Times today profiles Moglen's foundation whose goal is to "organize the software" that will decentralize "information and power" on the web. The "box" is really tiny server with software enabling web surfers to protect their identities and locations.

"We have to aim our engineering more directly at politics now,” Moglen told the Times. "What has happened in Egypt is enormously inspiring, but the Egyptian state was late to the attempt to control the Net and not ready to be as remorseless as it could have been.”

Moglen is quoted in the Times saying: "We should make this far better for the people trying to make change than for the people trying to make oppression,” Mr. Moglen said. “Being connected works.”

Moglen also is quoted as saying, "It is not hard, when everybody is just in one big database controlled by Mr. Zuckerberg, to decapitate a revolution by sending an order to Mr. Zuckerberg that he cannot afford to refuse. I telephoned Moglen to ask if his Freedom Box would prevent incidents like the recent corporate collusion against WikiLeaks after it began releasing secret U.S. government documents. But that line of question agitated Mr. Moglen, who said anything I knew or thought I knew about WikiLeaks' and corporate pressure against the organization was wrong. Could he set me straight?

“When you have eight or 10 million readers call me back and I’ll give you another 10 minutes.”

You can count on that, sir.