On Christmas day, Google purposely buried a website. Search terms that would find it on the first page on December 24th, could be as far back as the 5th and 6th pages on December 25th. They did this on purpose, targeting the website directly, and they discussed it openly…. This content is for Monthly Premium...
Laughable. That’s the single word that came to my mind as I read an article in the Atlantic titled “Google, Apple, and Microsoft Agree: NSA Spying Undermines Freedom”. Now, from their title, it sounds as if these companies were standing up for you, the user of their products and services. What actually transpired though, was…...
Don’t panic, it’s not contagious, but Facebook is terminally ill. Soon, Tom and Mark will be on bunk beds, in a one bedroom apartment, wondering how it all went wrong. That’s a bit exaggerated perhaps, Tom (Your first MySpace friend) is a multimillionaire, and we can expect Zuckerberg will never want for anything as long…...
Imagine a world where millions of people put their entire lives onto a hand held electronic device. A device that was constantly connected to a vast global computer network infested with government agents and other criminals, doing absolutely nothing to protect their data. It shouldn’t be too hard to imagine, because you live in that…...
Explosions rocked Los Angeles International Airport for the second time in two days, at approximately 8:30pm local time, Monday evening. Both explosions were caused by dry ice inside a plastic container, left inside an employee restroom, off limits to the general public. I’d say inside job, but I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy…...
Across the globe, over 2 billion people are sending over 144 billion emails a day, and nearly every single one of those messages can easily be intercepted by someone other than the recipient. Even without the NSA spying on us, the insecurity of the protocol that makes up for so much human communication today, should…...
The good news is, you know how to hide on the internet. The bad news is, you’re going to fuck this up at some point, and the NSA is definitely going to break into your house and take your computer, just like they did to Dread Pirate Roberts. So it’s very important that your files…...
As previously reported, due to the government shutdown, national parks and monuments have been coned off, not so much as a money saving maneuver, but rather as a temper tantrum by government agents. Well, I got put onto this by my facebook friend Adam Brisebois, a national “Move the Cones” protest. The idea is simple…...
This is hardly worthy of headlines, but, at least 12 NSA agents have been caught making unauthorized use of the agency’s spying apparatus. One of them as recently as 2011. Most of them, to spy on people they had, or desired romantic or sexual relationships with, according to an article in The Guardian. As if…...