to learn why I use a pseudonym.
Why read the Bible.
Content Protection and what's wrong with it.
links to copyright-related articles
Foundation for Information Policy Research
White Rose protest group.
ID card campaign: www.no2id.org
Jerry Fishenden with thoughts on ID card schemes
David Mery at gizmonaut.net on his arrest on the tube.
And this by Rob McGibbon
For info on my chosen operating systems (Linux and OpenBSD)
and here is someone else commenting at length on Microsoft. And another one.
Also don't miss this challenge to Microsoft.
MS legal news
A book Just Say No to Microsoft which I haven't read but is supposed to help you quit the evil empire.
an opinion on vista
article on Linux myths
Taiwan decides to escape the Microsoft monopoly
a view on MS Vista
story about switching to Linux
To see what software I'm distributing.
Online sudoku solver that may interest people who's newspaper carries these puzzles.
Experience with free software on the FSF site
here.
And this clickable button
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leads to the membership registration page.
One of the most important things on the Internet is Risks Digest. Don't miss it.
Important SANS network protection advice
What's going on with the US government ?
secret laws
and more at papersplease.org
Khaled al-Masri kidnapped
the injustice line
The aims of Bush ?
extraordinary
security observations with diebold voting equipment
suppression of details about electronic voting
P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act game
lie of the century
enemy combatant?
Diebold voting software is changeable
more about enemy combatants
shooting cases skewed
constitutional interpretation
The Nation: The Madness of 'King' George
story of dishonest police
taserific
What has Congress done lately?
US kidnap policy - Harpers
US kidnap policy - Times
US police attitudes
and another story
US as a banana republic
destroyed records
David Michael Green on Politics
The Bush Legacy
more on voting machine insecurity (multi-vendor)
voting machine error
Why the police are like that.
And the UK government ?
Arbitrary emergency powers
look like the end of rule of law.
The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill looks like the end of Parliament
But this Times article says that it is being improved to some extent.
Save Parliament
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006
Recording the movement of a whole population
is a poor way to deal with a small number of criminals. In this
newsweek article Bruce Schneier describes the
features of worthwhile security measures.
data mining vs. terrorism at the Cato Institute
tax fraud story
And here is a news story showing what
can be the result of surveillance even of criminals. I don't want the police being an extension of a credit reference agency.
And as you can read about the Shirley McKie fingerprint case
you have little enough chance of dodging a false accusation even if you are the police once they have
it in their heads that someone's biometric looks like yours.
Article by the Independent, on police state (lite).
Guardian article on id cards by Henry Porter
Now here's a funny story. Instead of criminal prosecution for buying child pr0n it is intended to
cancel the bank cards used. What's the point?
I expect it will be done without needing a conviction - i.e. punishment by rumour of the victims of card fraud.
In that connection read the
story of Simon Bunce.
Schneier writes about terror and how to respond to it
lying about Iraq
police state roundup
consideration of risk in the NHS IT project
good advice from The Times
more intrusive data collection
pilot case illustrates imprisonment without evidence
ID card stories in The Times
and The Register.
EU - no referendum
RIPA creep
more spying
even more spying
MP expenses
bonkers "terror" law
and more comment
council spying using RIPA
Will the Information Commissioner allow ISPs to snoop on customers to target adverts ?
what your council tax goes on
The Home Affairs Select Committee has called for limits on the data collected
and linked to the ID cards'
National ID Database, to reduce
"function creep".
Charles Clarke on the RIP bill - at cryptome.
An account of my holiday in 1999.
but later I got another score (maybe the population taking the test is changing))
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