Wired: Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
[via:Joonas Mäkinen]
6 March 2010
24 February 2010
The tech behind the Pennsylvania school laptop spying case
This provides some new details to the story from last week on how the Lower Merion School District/Harriton High School used compulsory school laptops to monitor students at home. Some network admin named Mike Perbix is the evil fucktard responsible for maintaining the school district sanctioned installation of LANRev/Absolute Manage, a very comprehensive (but insecurely built) software package used for monitoring the school provided Macbooks.
The story was uncovered after a student was suspended for “using drugs” at home, based on a photo taken with the laptop’s built in webcam. The student was eating candy.
[via:Waxy]
3 February 2010
7 January 2010
Canadian gov’t orders takedown of websites parodying climate policy
Even more bizarre: the shiteater ISP disabled 4500 unrelated ip adresses.
[via:Harri Kivistö]
23 December 2009
Kuten jo tiedämme, vanhoillis-medioilla on jotain sitä vastaan, että ihmiset nauttivat heidän tuotteista ei-kelvottomassa formaatissa.
15 December 2009
Rolling Stone/Matt Taibbi: Obama sold out to Wall Street
“There’s no other way to say it: Barack Obama, a once-in-a-generation political talent whose graceful conquest of America’s racial dragons en route to the White House inspired the entire world, has for some reason allowed his presidency to be hijacked by sniveling, low-rent shitheads.”
After being elected, Obama basically gave everyone from his “change” campaign dead end jobs. All the important posts went to insiders from the same financial giants, that through “bailout” laws now have been granted free money every time and no matter how badly they fuck up themselves and the system.
If you’re not easily tricked into reading longer articles, have a look at the video summary. Taibbi’s recent writing is highly recommended reading, his style is very readable and entertaining but maintains a striking contrast to the usual correct, bullshit-plagued financial and political reporting.
[via:No Agenda]
13 December 2009
Swedish law draft: police and domestic intelligence to gain rights for automatic ‘net wiretapping
Did any silly sod believe even for a minute that the wiretapping rights actually wouldn’t be expanded from the Swedish military intelligence to domestic agencies? Because, you know, it is the Russian internet traffic that was so crucially important to capture?
Also, an article in Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish).
[via:Mummila]
22 November 2009
Depressed woman on sick leave loses insurance over cheerful Facebook photos
She was partying on doctor’s orders.
[via:Slashdot]
1 November 2009
Steve Albini’s oft-referenced article on recording industry greed
Albini is a musician and audio engineer.
Via Merlin Mann’s commentary on Youtube music videos with disabled embedding: 1, 2, 3.
13 October 2009
Guardian gagged from reporting parliament
According to Wikileaks, the gag order may be about toxic waste dumping outside the Ivory Coast.
[via:zzorn]
8 October 2009
1 October 2009
Helsingin käräjäoikeus: Parodia ei ole parodiaa
Matti Nikki tuomittiin Pelastakaa Lapset-parodiasta. Tuomio vihjailee selvästi että tiettyjen järjestöjen kritisoiminen ei vaan ole suositeltavaa Suomessa.
[via:Mummila]