Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

It’s actually not a joke, although it’s easy to come up with a punchline

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I’ve been quick to criticize American history for HUAC, and CoIntelPro, and the general internal espionage of the early FBI, as well not recognizing the lessons of history when they swing around again, so I should probably also point out that we do a lot of the same stuff.
As you can see in the story [...]

Organizational Pathology

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Did you see the ACLU press release today about how the American terrorist watch list now has more than one million people on it?
“America’s new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what’s wrong with this administration’s approach to security: it’s unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the rights of the innocent [...]

Perfect Steganography

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

You know what steganography is, right? “Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message.”
Quite often these days this means encoding information into the insignificant bits of large binary files–changing the colour the [...]

How to really feel like a 1337 4aXXor

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Most of the time, when watching “hackers” on television, and in movies, I am usually quite harsh in mocking the appearance of their tools, and the Hollywood OS. The fact of the matter is that real programmers, and even more so real hackers, primarily work with the keyboard1 and character mode information2–this, however, doesn’t really [...]