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Sometimes, when I tell people about just how prevalent the surveillance society has become they dismiss me as simply being paranoid...
Last week my wife bought another armful of lever-arch ring binders in which to file more of the endless stream of paperwork that surrounds here association with ACC, medical specialists and others involved in the fallout from her accident...
Hands up all those who remember the attempt to create "Sealand", an independent sovereign cybercountry which was to be physically located on a dis-used sea fort in the North Sea, some 10 miles off the coast of England...
On the face of it, the Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload case is pretty simple: the guy created a service which enabled others to break the law by unlawfully exchanging files which contained material which was protected by copyright...
According to the BBC: "Our planet is being bombarded by high-energy particles unleashed by the strongest solar storm since 2005"...
I've had enough of stories about piracy, digital rights and the USA's attempts to exert its legal muscle in areas that ought to be outside its jurisdiction...
Last week, NZ police raided the home (the media keep saying "mansion") of Kim Dotcom and arrested several people on a number of charges, including copyright infringement plus aiding and abetting copyright infringement...
If you use Windows on your laptop or PC then you're probably aware that it's not a bad idea to install some anti-virus and anti-malware protection...
SOPA and PIPA are all about giving corporations and governments the right to control what *YOU* can access in the online world...
Apparently, black is the new black -- at least whenever you're looking to make a point in the online world...