Tag: National security
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Party at the NSA
Great and very topical song by YACHT that reminds me oddly of Le Tigre about the whole NSA debacle – donate to download or get a T-shirt, proceeds go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation! Although strangely I was half expecting a Miley Cyrus parody like this:
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The gradual acid drip of fascism
Something I’ve always struggled with it certain labels, certain accusations towards the UK government and security services. ‘Police state’ ‘Nazi’ ‘Fascism’ ‘Stasi’ – all very easy to blurt out and demean the original usage, and when using them you think about some cold grey depressing country (oh it is the same!) in Eastern Europe with…
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Cloudy thinking, or as Wired shows you can never be too paranoid
Reading about Mat Honan and his hacking experience on Wired’s blog reminded me that you can never be too paranoid either in security or backups. It brings up a new set of issues, well not actually new to those who were already working in this sphere, but new to the public at large. Which is…
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My thoughts exactly….
xkcd exactly said my secret thoughts re: Wikileaks…what happens if they leak *everything?* LOL… Another really appropriate one for you 1,000 dollar cable people out there:
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Kids are angry…and a dubstep revolution
Just wrote this over at Facebook about the protests today…I went down to Whitehall about 6ish before the Treasury occupation to have a look. Not much was happening, kids were standing around outside the kettle, burning placards and changing NWA Fuck the Police slogans. Sirens have been going off all day, and helicopters – surreal,…
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We’re living in a police state
Well those in the UK are – and should be concerned because Orwell’s predictions (and even Alan Moore’s in V for Vendetta) are seemingly comng true. With The Fear this time being terrorism – despite a terrorist attack happening last nearly 4 years ago – they are clamping down on a variety of things. They…