A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I’ve been making it a point to PGP sign all of my emails for several years now and I still get the occasional question asking why I bother. The answer is simple really, I’m using it as a form of identity theft protection.
You see about five or six years ago I and people [...]

 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 Texas Instruments (TI) calculators have for a long time been a subject of hobbyist interest. In particular is the TI-83. However TI has long been known to be very uncooperative to say the least. Recently news came out that somebody has managed to crack the RSA signing key [...]

 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 [...]

I saw a story on the Boston Herald site recently that’s a prime example of some of the things that people believe about how much of what information can be retrieved from a computer.