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Each morning is now spent imagining – reconstructing – Roomba’s Big Adventure #roomba
First, find your Roomba. Today it had gotten through the slightly-ajar lounge door, cleaned the exposed carpet and then wedged itself trying to climb over/eat the bellows. Overall: it works. The house is cleaner and I can walk around barefoot without that ‘gritty’ feeling underfoot. My bet is that if it does 80% of the…
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“DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship” – PirateBay upbraids some-bunch-of-Anonymous-people
Via BoingBoing: Seems like some random Anonymous groups have run a DDOS campaign against Virgin media and some other sites. We’d like to be clear about our view on this: We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-12
: Honey Hunters in Nepal http://t.co/t0hZLjZ8 # : How a Bicycle is Made (1945) on Vimeo http://t.co/ybBfxfVh # : Case for snooping powers backfires for Theresa May – Telegraph http://t.co/xtCmgo81 # : Brussels wants to impose classification of Internet content http://t.co/gFFmP9M1 # : If You Meet a Censor, Ask Them This One Question http://t.co/MI3l5sKl #…
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Iran’s Internet Filters Filter Out Leader’s Screed Against Getting Around Filters | Techdirt
I give it what, four years before this happens in the UK? Well this would be funny if it weren’t so sad and didn’t involve mass censorship. Iran has been getting a lot of attention lately for its plans to increase its internet filtering — and potentially even set up its own “safe” (read: heavily…
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If You Meet a Censor, Ask Them This One Question
Via @glynmoody – an extract: Via Twitter, Andrew Grossman brought to my attention this terrifically interesting interview with a Kuwaiti censor that appeared in the Kuwait Times (“Read No Evil – Senior Censor Defends Work, Denies Playing Big Brother“). In the interview, the censor, Dalal Al-Mutairi, head of the Foreign Books Department at the Ministry of…
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Brussels wants to impose classification of Internet content
Do you ever get the feeling that the Government tends to miscategorise the Internet as a form of Television? Via Google Translate: In an official communication, the European Commission asked the telecoms and content to work very quickly to the implementation of a classification of content published on the Internet, depending on the age of…
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Case for snooping powers backfires for Theresa May – Telegraph
The Home Secretary told MPs that nine members of a 41-strong international paedophile ring had never been traced because necessary internet data on them was not available. She used the case as a reason why the Government plans to force communications providers to retain all phone and internet activity by its users, which can then…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-09
@MatrixSCIT @KimZetter @taosecurity Have read the report, there is much good in the security analysis and philosophy, but > # @MatrixSCIT @taosecurity < the headline stats which @KimZetter & others (Govt?) will take away are scary without providing context/history # @taosecurity @kimzetter Could it not also be better than your stats show, since you will…
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“#Cybersecurity: Demand An Evidence-Based Approach” ( http://goo.gl/VOLHy at Computerworld )
Cybersecurity: Demand An Evidence-Based Approach Beware Secondhand Statistics; Beware Creating Them In the days before the SOPA blackout a popular meme infected the interwebs: Dear Congress: It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works Directed at the US Government this article and its related discussion decried the creation of new legislation founded…