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With all the Edward Snowden revelations about the extent of activities of the U.S.A's N.S.A, we are all like oh how dare they the privacy invading bastards, we all attack and condemn them - rightly so! We now realise how far out of control they and other Five Eyes member nations really are, so we tend to take more steps to protect our privacy from their prying eyes, make no mistake they are privacy invading power tripping scum who spend more time spying on friendly nations and their own law abiding citizens - than terrorists.
Yet, I'm betting pretty much all of those outraged over the NSA's actions, spend most of their days on feciesbook facebook, probably an unhealthy amount of time too, revealing everything about their life, now, I wrote some time ago about what I think of the privacy invading POS that is facebook, but recently, information on what they collect by their own admission, came to life, and it would make even the most seasoned operative at the U.S.A.'s NSA and U.K.'s GCHQ jaw drop in puddles of drool...
Recent statements made on an Australian industry mailing list about how well IPv6 was doing, with some people reporting their traffic is split 50/50 between IPv4 and IPv6, raised my eyebrows, I was not entirely convinced about those figures, so decided to put that 50/50 to the test to see how it applies in my situation.
One of these gentleman told me that my test was flawed, setting it up to fail even, well, I disagree with that, since if 50% of the traffic is favoured as IPv6, it still stands to reason that if I disable IPv4, about 50% of my traffic should still work - albeit slower at times for local sites since I'm limited to a tunnel provided by Hurricane Electric in California, U.S.A, so I expect a bit of lag using local sites, anyway, getting back on point, that should then result in the remaining 50% or so of traffic to actually fail, which is kind of the point if one wants to test the theory of half of the sites working or not via IPv6.
Metadata, just the latest annoyance by the Australian Government to spy on our Internet use, they couldn't screw us over with the failed mandatory filtering attempt, so they'll try get us another way. Not sure what all the fuss is about however since we now know the United States's NSA and UK's GCHQ has been doing this a long time thanks to the Snowden Releases, so all Canberra need do is pick up the phone and call head office
Now, I'm not going to go into all the bungling of them trying to sell this to us, Bumbling George Brandis's comedy show has been doing the rounds for a while now, when he came out with his and Woger Wabbott's , I mean Tony Abbott's version, it was like the two stooges Larry and Moe, without curly - Malcolm Turnbull, who finally did have to join the duo and fix up their diabolical mess, sending relief down peoples spines knowing the Government did not want to know what websites you went to, just who had what IP on what date. Much more different to voice, since they do want to know who you called, and when and from where.
When this came about I was in two minds about it, didn't have strong objections, my IP's static so wont be too hard to find me in radius, and I've had it for nearly five years at home, so there's no doubting its accuracy, as for phone, well, I make/get SFA phone calls, I rarely use 3G data because it's about the same price as pure gold in Australia. Most of my communications from home is by IRC, IM (Jabber/Skype - so the U.S.'s NSA already know who I talk to anyway), Email, ramblings on Twitter, or this strange thing called ... Continue reading "Metadata"
In what can only be described as the most funniest thing I've read in many many years, the U.S.A.'s National Security Agency (NSA) regards The Linux Journal Website as an extremists forum, and its users as extremists, therefore logs its users, likewise with privacy site TAILS, and they also keenly, but not really unexpectedly, (try to) target the Tor network.
I just find it ridiculous on all levels that Linux users, or anyone who values their privacy, are labelled as extremists, the only extremists here, are the out of control U.S.A's NSA!
It's wrong when merely visiting privacy related websites is enough for a user's IP address to be logged into a NSA database, and become a possible target, and it's beyond dangerous scope creep when visiting a Linux website gets you thrown into the same basket, it's about time these bastards had the reigns thrown on them, from not only within the U.S.A., but from all other countries that give a damn about their citizens, the only country with any guts at present to do this seems to be Germany. Shame on our Australian government as well, who wont do squat, since they are just U.S. puppets and lap dogs who take their orders from Washington.
The line "if you got nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is just pure bullshit and doesn't wash.
So much for Mozilla's motto of openness, yet again another netizens call to action arises to make Mozilla realise what a grave error this is, remember, it was public opinion that forced the resignation of Eich over his support for organisations rife with homophobia in trying to stop marriage equality, so time to start all over again to stop them supporting DRM.
FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
In response to Mozilla's announcement that it is reluctantly adopting DRM in its Firefox Web browser, Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan made the following statement:
Only a week after the International Day Against DRM, Mozilla has announced that it will partner with proprietary software company Adobe to implement support for Web-based Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) in its Firefox browser, using Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). Continue reading "Mozilla Does DRM Deal With Adobe Devil"
The Prism program allows the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the world's largest surveillance organisation, to obtain targeted communications without having to request them from the service providers and without having to obtain individual court orders.
With this program, the NSA (a military defined organisation) is able to reach directly into the servers of the participating companies and obtain both stored communications as well as perform real-time collection on users.
We have recently been hearing reports from American politicians, Embassy staff (Yes, looking at you Jeff Bleich), and U.S. cloud service providers, and security experts all claiming the worlds fear of U.S. Laws, like the Patriot Act when it comes to hosting data in the U.S., is just FUD, even as recent as two days ago I read a report from a U.S. cloud expert in Europe trying to show the world it is safe to host data in the U.S., claiming there is oversight, court orders are in fact needed (something that we have known for along time is utter rubbish - google FISA warrant), and this expose about PRISM proves it.
Prominent world renowned media organisation, The Guardian, has blown the lid after obtaining highly classified documents
The United States National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants (like Microsoft), according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.
The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called Prism, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document saysContinue reading "PRISM - The US Govt Caught Out, Yet Again"
With all the Edward Snowden revelations about the extent of activities of the U.S.A's N.S.A, we are all like oh how dare they the privacy invading bastards, we all attack and condemn them - rightly so! We now realise how far out of control they and other Five Eyes member nations really are, so we tend to take more steps to protect our privacy from their prying eyes, make no mistake they are privacy invading power tripping scum who spend more time spying on friendly nations and their own law abiding citizens - than terrorists.
Metadata, just the latest annoyance by the Australian Government to spy on our Internet use, they couldn't screw us over with the failed mandatory filtering attempt, so they'll try get us another way. Not sure what all the fuss is about however since we now know the United States's NSA and UK's GCHQ has been doing this a long time thanks to the Snowden Releases, so all Canberra need do is pick up the phone and call head office 
It's wrong when merely visiting privacy related websites is enough for a user's IP address to be logged into a NSA database, and become a possible target, and it's beyond dangerous scope creep when visiting a Linux website gets you thrown into the same basket, it's about time these bastards had the reigns thrown on them, from not only within the U.S.A., but from all other countries that give a damn about their citizens, the only country with any guts at present to do this seems to be Germany. Shame on our Australian government as well, who wont do squat, since they are just U.S. puppets and lap dogs who take their orders from Washington.
So much for Mozilla's motto of openness, yet again another netizens call to action arises to make Mozilla realise what a grave error this is, remember, it was public opinion that forced the resignation of Eich over his support for organisations rife with homophobia in trying to stop marriage equality, so time to start all over again to stop them supporting DRM.
The Prism program allows the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the world's largest surveillance organisation, to obtain targeted communications without having to request them from the service providers and without having to obtain individual court orders.