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Well meaning but…

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I work in IT and I’m sure I’ve made decisions that have puzzled people or made them wonder what sort of special idiot I am. Fortunately for me most of what I’ve done hasn’t really had significant real world consequences. The same can not be said of the new surveillance detecting tool from Amnesty, Privacy International and the EFF. This new spyware detecting tool is called Deteckt and is aimed at people who fear they may be at risk of targeted surveillance. Now I’m sure that the people that wrote it are both very clever and well meaning, however if … Continue reading →

A technical hitch

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And I’m back in the room or something. Sorry for that disruption in service, it seems that after gradually getting worse and worse over the last year the company Anonymong was hosted with finally went tits up. They decided that the best way to notify their customers of this impending doom wasn’t to actually e-mail them but to post to their support forum saying “you’ve got two weeks to save your data”. Oddly I missed this post as I’m not in the habit of checking support forums randomly, so was rather like putting an announcement “on display in the bottom … Continue reading →

Well that didn’t take long

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Whilst I expected this to happen I’m slightly surprised that it’s been quite this quick. Just the other day BT announce they’re turning on censorship by default and before you can say “cluster fuck” it emerges that O2 are blocking a support site for homeless LGBT teens. This isn’t an accident, or at least not much of one, this is the filters working as designed. The New Statesman covers it very well, the debate was always framed as anti-porn when it was never just about porn, we don’t know who compiles the lists, the lists get changed and updated all … Continue reading →