I just read something on Slashdot that should be a great big red flag to anyone that has any interest in email privacy at all. The 11th Circuit court handed down a decision in Rehberg v. Paulk which severely limits how much fourth amendment protection there is for Email. The decision was that constitutional protection […]
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 I […]
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 calculator’s operating system. This […]
I think it’s pretty safe to say that the fact that there are government agencies doing a lot of snooping on all manner of Internet traffic. It’s also safe to say that since 9-11 this snooping has escalated massively. Now, the FBI is trying to get access to data that the NSA has been collecting […]
According to an article on computerworld.com Microsoft had best make sure that the Windows operating system has an up to date programlife insurance quote. Because the way things have been going with Vista and Microsoft’s refusal to just be sensible and stick with the XP that already works…. beefing that up instead of scrapping it […]