e-nsecure.net blog - Comments on IT security and Privacy or the lack thereof.
Rat's Blog -The Reverend Rat writes about London street life and technology
Duncan Drury - wired adventures in Tanzania & London
Dr. K's blog - Hacker, Author, Musician, Philosopher
David Mery - falsely arrested on the London Tube - you could be next.
James Hammerton
White Rose - a thorn in the side of Big Brother
Big Blunkett
Into The Machine - formerly "David Blunkett is an Arse" by Charlie Williams and Scribe
infinite ideas machine - Phil Booth
Louise Ferguson - City of Bits
Chris Lightfoot
Oblomovka - Danny O'Brien
Liberty Central
dropsafe - Alec Muffett
The Identity Corner - Stefan Brands
Kim Cameron - Microsoft's Identity Architect
Schneier on Security - Bruce Schneier
Politics of Privacy Blog - Andreas Busch
solarider blog
Richard Allan - former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam
Boris Johnson Conservative MP for Henley
Craig Murray - former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, "outsourced torture" whistleblower
Howard Rheingold - SmartMobs
Global Guerrillas - John Robb
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
Vmyths - debunking computer security hype
Nick Leaton - Random Ramblings
The Periscope - Companion weblog to Euro-correspondent.com journalist network.
The Practical Nomad Blog Edward Hasbrouck on Privacy and Travel
Policeman's Blog
World Weary Detective
Martin Stabe
Longrider
B2fxxx - Ray Corrigan
Matt Sellers
Grits for Breakfast - Scott Henson in Texas
The Green Ribbon - Tom Griffin
Guido Fawkes blog - Parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy.
The Last Ditch - Tom Paine
Murky.org
The (e)State of Tim - Tim Hicks
Ilkley Against CCTV
Tim Worstall
Bill's Comment Page - Bill Cameron
The Society of Qualified Archivists
The Streeb-Greebling Diaries - Bob Mottram
Your Right To Know - Heather Brooke - Freedom off Information campaigning journalist
Ministry of Truth _ Unity's V for Vendetta styled blog.
Bloggerheads - Tim Ireland
W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.
EUrophobia - Nosemonkey
Blogzilla - Ian Brown
BlairWatch - Chronicling the demise of the New Labour Project
dreamfish - Robert Longstaff
Informaticopia - Rod Ward
War-on-Freedom
The Musings of Harry
Chicken Yoghurt - Justin McKeating
The Red Tape Chronicles - Bob Sullivan MSNBC
Campaign Against the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
Stop the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
Rob Wilton's esoterica
panGloss - Innovation, Technology and the Law
Arch Rights - Action on Rights for Children blog
Database Masterclass - frequently asked questions and answers about the several centralised national databases of children in the UK.
Shaphan
Moving On
Steve Moxon blog - former Home Office whistleblower and author.
Al-Muhajabah's Sundries - anglophile blog
Architectures of Control in Design - Dan Lockton
rabenhorst - Kai Billen
(mostly in German)
Nearly Perfect Privacy - Tiffany and Morpheus
Iain Dale's Diary - a popular Conservative political blog
Brit Watch - Public Surveillance in the UK - Web - Email - Databases - CCTV - Telephony - RFID - Banking - DNA
BLOGDIAL
MySecured.com - smart mobile phone forensics, information security, computer security and digital forensics by a couple of Australian researchers
Ralph Bendrath
Financial Cryptography - Ian Grigg et al.
UK Liberty - A blog on issues relating to liberty in the UK
Big Brother State - "a small act of resistance" to the "sustained and systematic attack on our personal freedom, privacy and legal system"
HosReport - "Crisis. Conspiraciones. Enigmas. Conflictos. Espionaje." - Carlos Eduardo Hos (in Spanish)
"Give 'em hell Pike!" - Frank Fisher
Corruption-free Anguilla - Good Governance and Corruption in Public Office Issues in the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla in the West Indies - Don Mitchell CBE QC
geeklawyer - intellectual property, civil liberties and the legal system
PJC Journal - I am not a number, I am a free Man - The Prisoner
Charlie's Diary - Charlie Stross
The Caucus House - blog of the Chicago International Model United Nations
Famous for 15 Megapixels
Postman Patel
The 4th Bomb: Tavistock Sq Daniel's 7:7 Revelations - Daniel Obachike
OurKingdom - part of OpenDemocracy - " will discuss Britain’s nations, institutions, constitution, administration, liberties, justice, peoples and media and their principles, identity and character"
Beau Bo D'Or blog by an increasingly famous digital political cartoonist.
Between Both Worlds - "Thoughts & Ideas that Reflect the Concerns of Our Conscious Evolution" - Kingsley Dennis
Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair - the rich Uzbek businessman and his shyster lawyers Schillings really made a huge counterproductive error in trying to censor the blogs of Tim Ireland, of all people.
Matt Wardman political blog analysis
Henry Porter on Liberty - a leading mainstream media commentator and opinion former who is doing more than most to help preserve our freedom and liberty.
HMRC is shite - "dedicated to the taxpayers of Britain, and the employees of the HMRC, who have to endure the monumental shambles that is Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC)."
Head of Legal - Carl Gardner a former legal advisor to the Government
The Landed Underclass - Voice of the Banana Republic of Great Britain
Henrik Alexandersson - Swedish blogger threatened with censorship by the Försvarets Radioanstalt (FRA), the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishement, their equivalent of the UK GCHQ or the US NSA.
World's First Fascist Democracy - blog with link to a Google map - "This map is an attempt to take a UK wide, geographical view, of both the public and the personal effect of State sponsored fear and distrust as seen through the twisted technological lens of petty officials and would be bureaucrats nationwide."
Blogoir - Charles Crawford - former UK Ambassodor to Poland etc.
No CCTV - The Campaign against CCTV
Barcode Nation - keeping two eyes on the database state.
Lords of the Blog - group blog by half a dozen or so Peers sitting in the House of Lords.
notes from the ubiquitous surveillance society - blog by Dr. David Murakami Wood, editor of the online academic journal Surveillance and Society
Justin Wylie's political blog
Panopticon blog - by Timothy Pitt-Payne and Anya Proops. Timothy Pitt-Payne is probably the leading legal expert on the UK's Freedom of Information Act law, often appearing on behlaf of the Information Commissioner's Office at the Information Tribunal.
Armed and Dangerous - Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life’s simple pleasures… - by Open Source Software advocate Eric S. Raymond.
Georgetown Security Law Brief - group blog by the Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law , at Georgtown University, Washington D.C, USA.
Big Brother Watch - well connected with the mainstream media, this is a campaign blog by the TaxPayersAlliance, which thankfully does not seem to have spawned Yet Another Campaign Organisation as many Civil Liberties groups had feared.
Spy on Moseley - "Sparkbrook, Springfield, Washwood Heath and Bordesley Green. An MI5 Intelligence-gathering operation to spy on Muslim communities in Birmingham is taking liberties in every sense" - about 150 ANPR CCTV cameras funded by Home Office via the secretive Terrorism and Allied Matters (TAM) section of ACPO.
FitWatch blog - keeps an eye on the activities of some of the controversial Police Forward Intelligence Teams, who supposedly only target "known troublemakers" for photo and video surveillance, at otherwise legal, peaceful protests and demonstrations.
SpyBlog is being blocked by WebSense because WebSense is a great steaming pile of crap that simply isn't up to the job that it purports to do - that blocks legitimate sites while singularly failing to block (for example) poker sites. We have the same software at work, and it even blocks some of our _own_ sites.
WebSense started blocking Spyblog on my computer at work (I work for the Department of Transport) a few days ago. I guess it's the WebSense master list that is the problem rather than just McDonald's or anything.
Any organisation or individual is perfectly at liberty to block access to SpyBlog or any other website according to their own internet use policies e.g. to reduce bandwidth usage or to force employees to only use the internet for business purposes.
What they are not at liberty to do, is to falsely defame the reputation of SpyBlog, by displaying the "reason" for blocking as per the false WebSense category, thereby implying that SpyBlog is somehow in any way "Illegal or Questionable".
That is tantamount to libel.
Gosh - Websense being libellous? They should block themselves...
Being blocked today from my work which uses websense. While I'm not sure you have a libel action here, it is damn annoying. Websense randomly blocks vast tracts of the Internet for seemingly no reason.
I wonder if the other blogs on spyblog.org.uk are being blocked - e.g. mine at http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/drk/ or RevRats etc - because we are all being tarred with the same brush ... I can't check here - but next time I am in a Spanish cybercafe I will check spyblog
I can vouch that Websense blocks at least one of the two urls. Probobly the longer one. I was unable to access it from school.
If you take this to court best of luck to you :)
P.S. Websense dosn't give its clients an increase risk of libel dose it? I don't think you have any legal grounds to sue my school. It didn't tell me you're an illegal or questionalbe site, websense did so thats the only entity at risk.
@ Ben - you will find that newsagents such as W.H.Smith etc. have to scramble quickly to remove copies of editions of newspapers or magazines which are judged to contain libellous articles - they are at legal risk, even though they have no controil over the content of the items which they display or sell to the public.
So yes, we think that all the customers of WebSense, who are the actual people responsible for exactly what their own computer systems display to their users, not WebSense, are also liable for promulgating the libellous claim that SpyBlog is somehow "Illegal or Questionable"
If you read the small print in your software licence contract with WebSense, you will probably find that they try to deny all legal liability, and dump all the legal risk on you, the customer.
It is perfectly possible for the administrators of your computer systems to manually add SpyBlog to their own local WebSense "white list" of sites not to block.
blocked at our work (local govt), not sure if we're using Web Sense, message:
Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Illegal or Questionable"
This happens on http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/ and http://spyblog.org.uk/ but NOT http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/
p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/ blocked by websense at my university as "Phishing and Other Frauds" at the moment.
@ Poly - which University is that ?
http://www.spy.org.uk is categorised by WebSense under "Advocacy Groups", which is tolerable - the categorisation, not the censorship of such a vague and all encompassing term.
To imply guilt by association with criminal frauds websites in this way is libel by WebSense, promulgated by their customers, who all too often, negligently do not bother to review or locally amend the default censorware settings.
I don't know which university dc was refering to but p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/ is currently blocked by Websense at Brunel University.
It is being categorised as "Phishing and Other Frauds" at the moment.
When it was previously classified as "Advocacy" it was not blocked at Brunel, since the university does not block that category.
(Websense classifies - then organisations can subscribe to different block categories)