A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!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 for the programmable [...]

 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 [...]

A team of Microsoft engineers consisting of Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman set out to “investigate the darknet – a collection of networks and technologies used to share digital content”. their conclusions were published in the report known as “Darknet Assumptions”.

Those assumptions boil down to three basic points.

I’ve been interested in p2p file sharing for some time. I quickly grew tired of things like Kazaa, gnutella, emule and bittorrent file sharing systems for a number of reasons. The biggest complaint was that just about anytime I wanted to download something, suddenly all of the sources would dry up and disappear, leaving me with an unfinished download.

Just in case you thought China was the only country doing stuff like this, they’re not. The Iranian government is working on a law that’s going to “toughen punishment for harming mental security in society” (translation: give the government more license to kill people that openly disagree with it.) They’re already blocking websites that either have sexual content, anything religious that does not agree with Islamic doctrines, and of course, anything that doesn’t agree with government approved politics.