Tag: Edward Snowden
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Cassetteboy vs The Snoopers’ Charter
I’m hoping the genie is out of the bottle with encryption and even WhatsApp joining the end-to-end encryption battle, but there is no room for complacency. Certainly Teresa May and David Cameron want to spy on us, and already are. Like with Apple vs the FBI in the States it’s no longer something purely for…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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NSA Dick Pics Sheriff
YouTube has been pulled (and the official video is Geoblocked in the UK, because obviously John Olliver has no fans in his home country!) but it’s on Facebook, or for some time, maybe, Vid.Me or DailyMotion: John Olliver interviewed Edward Snowden, as well as grilling him he also helped him communicate to the American public…
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Dropping Dropbox Or How I Learned To Hate The Cloud
Well not entirely, but I’ve been switching backups and data away from Dropbox for a while, given what Edward Snowden said, and the fact that Condi ‘Spy on you’ Rice is now on the board. Problem with Dropbox is many-fold, like iCloud and others there isn’t any encryption, and you just have to trust that…
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The Day We Fight Back
Two years ago, Radio Clash along with many other sites blacked out in opposition to SOPA and similar European laws such as ACTA. The former was stopped fairly quickly, and the latter fizzled out as European politicians realised how unpopular it was amongst their electorates as it was quite rightly perceived as a US attempt…
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Maigret Jnr – Stand By Me, PRISM & OccupyGezi
Maigret Jnr just sent this through, a great Nick Cave or Big Black Delta dark cover of Stand By Me. Love it, and the message…from OccupyGezi in Turkey to PRISM and the NSA, deep and dark(web) things are going down. I’m not really sure where to start, I’ve talked a lot here about CCTV, Police…