A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!According to an article on Scoop Independent News New Zealand has joined the ranks of nations with really aggressive, secret internet filters operated by the government.
Apparently two NZ ISPs, Maxnet and Watchdog, have already implemented the filter and three more, Telstra Clear, Telecom and Vodafone have stated that they will be implementing it. [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I just saw this little gem on Slashdot this morning:
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of well-known computer security
company Kaspersky Labs, is calling for an end to the anonymity of the
Internet, and for the creation of mandatory ‘Internet passports’ for
anyone who wishes to browse the Web
The very first thought I had after reading this [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’ve talked about Freenet here occasionally and while I think it’s easy enough to understand I still get occasional questions about just exactly what it is. That, combined with the recent fork of Freenet Classic OpenNet from the original Freenet 0.5 project has prompted me to create this video that [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads According to a story on ITnews there’s some people arguing that it’s time to require a kind of “internet drivers license” before allowing people to go online for the first time.
Australia’s leading criminologist thinks online scams have escalated to such a point that first-time users of computers should have to earn [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads In another assault on people’s right to anonymity, a judge has ordered Google to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who apparently had some “less than complimentary” things to say about the Vogue cover model Liskula Cohen.
I think that there’s a couple of lessons here. First, even when [...]