Kinda following on from the previous post… why exactly do I want to encrypt me emails?? An argument which comes up a lot regarding surveillance and invasions of privacy is the “I’ve got nothing to hide” argument.
People a lot smarter than me have discussed the nothing to hide argument at length before, and so I’m […]
I’ve just set myself up with PGP encryption facilitated by the wonderful FireGPG Firefox plugin. The plugin makes encrypting/decrypting gmail messages dead simple. It’s lovely.
So, my public key ID is: 0×5A0F02FB
Grab it and send me secret emailings.
For those of you who don’t really know what I’m on about, here’s a couple of links that helped […]
It’s nobler to never get paid than to bank on shit and dismay.
Movie (Never Made) - A Silver Mt. Zion
Charlie Stross is one of my favourite authors. Sci-fi (of course). He’s something of a genius at extrapolation and situation analysis, a skill he puts to use by writing some damn good stories. This tends to get him lauded as a modern-day prophet, of sorts. He’s got the beard for it.
Yesterday he posted the summary […]
Section 44 of the Terrorism Act allows police to search anyone (or any vehicle) without suspicion. It’s been used a lot in London in the last year.
The Metropolitan Police used section 44 of the Terrorism Act more than 170,000 times in 2008
What’s particularly interesting in the article is this:
Of all the stops last year, only […]
Yesterday I got my hands on Low’s collaboration with Dirty Three, In the Fishtank. It’s really beautiful, the styles of the 2 bands really complement each other. And there’s a lovely cover of Neil Young’s ‘Down by the River’.
If you come across it, check it out.
I was about to quote an awesome response I saw this morning on the BBC website to a thread asking for people’s opinions on the introduction of ID cards. But it’s gone! (We trust the BBC with too much power, surely!)
Anyhow, it went something along the lines of:
In the first episode of Futurama, Fry is […]