21/08/2013
Taken direct from Startpage – prism program exposed If you haven’t already ditched google, and set startpage as your default search engine, you really should consider it. I think this is the end of an era of the free web… or maybe 7 years ago was, according to below. Those that choose to, will find new ways to surf anonymously. For others their surfing will be observed like their sky.…
20/08/2013
Here’s A Tool To See What Your Email Metadata Reveals About You Earlier this week, Mike Masnick of Techdirt complained that anyone who dismisses the NSA’s collection of metadata around people’s phone calls and emails (as revealed in the Snowden Leaks) “because it’s ‘just metadata’ doesn’t know what metadata is.” The argument is that you can learn a lot about who a person associates with and what they might talk…
19/08/2013
Silent Circle on secure electronic communications: ‘You may wish to avoid email altogether…’ When American firm Silent Circle shut down its Silent Mail encrypted-email service earlier this month, it claimed that “e-mail as we know it today is fundamentally broken from a privacy perspective”. Now the company has been elaborating on the claim in response to questions about why it couldn’t just use an asymmetric key cryptography plug-in for email…
19/08/2013
Cyanide and Happiness and Street Fighter, Monday’s don’t get much better 🙂 Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net Cyanide and Happiness added to RSS feed
18/08/2013
Here’s a list of firefox (you are using firefox arn’t you?) plugins, that were shared on Reddit, to help keep your browsing more secure and anonymous. I already used a few of them, but in this day and age you can’t be too careful 😉 Adblock (with the privacy easylist added) Annoyed by adverts? Troubled by tracking? Bothered by banners? Install Adblock Plus now to regain control of the internet…
17/08/2013
I’ve been searching for this answer without success for a while. Thanks to AskUbuntu I finally have a solution 🙂 Shutdown your virtual box and in a terminal shell type the following command: VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution 1366,768 the 1366,768 is just what i have set for my screen resolution on my laptop, change this to whatever your current resolution is on the machine your running. This should maximize all…
17/08/2013
I haven’t worn a watch for years, working at a keyboard it seemed to get in the way, then the mobile, and in turn smart phone came along… what need do I have for a watch? Saying that I’ve fancied a pocket watch for some time, think that was inspired in my early teen years from the Pop Swatch I had. Sony already have their SmartWatch(2) on the market, together…
OK I’m intrigued, here’s the idea User>>Lahana VPN>>Tor>>Website, thanks to Hacker 10 Lahana is a set of scripts that can quickly create a VPN on Amazon EC2 cloud servers using Linux instances and tunnel everything through the Tor proxy network. And here’s a Lahana link. Off to play, will put together a guide if I can get this to work Links r/netsec
14/08/2013
I posted last week how no-one does pre-launch like Rockstar, here’s more validation, truly huge hand painted murals in LA and NYC… I’m even tempted to pre-order, and I can never remember doing that for a game prior, I hate this seasons game drought. One sticking point is Xbox or PS3? Thinking Xbox for the multiplayer and Gamer Points 🙂
14/08/2013
This is big news currently in NZ, the National Government are planning on passing the GCSB bill (Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill), that will give the GCSB the privilege to spy on domestic Kiwis. Below is the current NZ PM’s argument why this should pass. It’s absolute rubbish, and a step closer to a monitored police state The New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is trying…
12/08/2013
I never get tired of this 🙂 http://youtu.be/fe4fyhzS3UM Kudos to the creator lookatmyhorsemyhorseisamazing.com
12/08/2013
Several times today, while trying to launch a new space station KSP has quit on me 🙁 It wouldn’t be frustrating, but nearly each time it has been when I’m preparing for orbit. I’ve been quite nonchalant about it, modifying the rocket before the next launch, but it’s getting frustrating. Guess if this is the least of my problems life is good 🙂
12/08/2013
http://youtu.be/b14vr5qpmxA This is an amazing surreal parody of North Korean firing squads… I so hope it’s a parody anyway! The artwork is based on North Korean propaganda, it is truly glorious, grab it now before it’s pulled from distribution, did I mention it isn’t allowed on the Apple store! Here’s how the developers describe it: Help North Korean commissar Kim Bok Kyong punish the traitors! Command a firing squad of…
TechCrunch: MIT Students Show How To 3D Print Your Own Non-Duplicatable Keys For Easy Breaking And Entering. This is both interesting and scary. The key (with lock) has long been considered the first and last line of defence in keeping your precious things private… our keeping thieving villainous scum out of your house. This application of technology could be a game changer, I wonder what alternatives to the traditional lock…
09/08/2013
Bonza, I found D-Rok Oblivion tunes to share! Bob your head mo-fo’s 🙂
09/08/2013
Watching Matrix (’99) for the first time in a decade.. who would have thought when made, that the CRT monitors would be the signature of the time period? … and mini disks, & maybe the nokia banana phone 🙂 OK heaps have changed in the last ~15 years, and I just need to watch a little sci-fi to remind me how cool today’s toys actually are!
06/08/2013
I remember when installing an operating system was a timely complicated task 🙂 How to create a bootable USB stick on Ubuntu
[Rating:4.5] The binding of Isaac is a simple game on the surface but the longer you spend in the demented world of Isaac the more you realize the opportunity’s and combos. In this series I will show you some combos, some items worth avoiding and some base mechanics in the game. The habit (item martyr) The habit is an item obtained via the shops. It recharges your “space bar” item…
04/08/2013
The 4.3 Android upgrade de-rooted my devices, no worries play time 🙂 My only disappointment was that I couldn’t get this to work from linux, which I found ironic as I needed root access to install Debian on my toys via Li’ Debi wugfresh is a fantastic bit of software, and does everything for you. If you do you use it, please donate a little something to the dev Roots…