Awhile ago I was thinking about how to make a website that couldn’t be taken down by censors. I immediately thought of using Usenet to store the HTML and other page content since it’s a distributed system. The HTML, images, movies and other media could be stored in Usenet articles. Since Usenet servers connect to [...]
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Extent of UK snooping revealed
Posted by arcana on November 29th, 2009
Originally posted on Friday, 16 May, 2003, 16:51 GMT 17:51 UK at BBC News. Officials in the UK are routinely demanding huge quantities of information about what people do online and who they call, say privacy experts. Police and other officials are making around a million requests for access to data held by net and [...]
Switch on for state snooping
Posted by arcana on November 29th, 2009
Originally posted on Wednesday, 17 July, 2002, 09:15 GMT 10:15 UK at BBC News. From August net service providers in the UK will be obliged to carry out surveillance of some customers’ web habits on behalf of the police. Controversial laws passed in 2000 oblige large communications companies to install technology that allows one in [...]
Banned from MMORPG.com!
Posted by arcana on November 2nd, 2009
I’ve just been banned from mmorpg.com for a discussion about Star Wars Galaxies. Here’s the ban e-mail I received…
