e-nsecure.net blog - Comments on IT security and Privacy or the lack thereof.
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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
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Politics of Privacy Blog - Andreas Busch
solarider blog
Richard Allan - former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam
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Craig Murray - former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, "outsourced torture" whistleblower
Howard Rheingold - SmartMobs
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Tim Worstall
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dreamfish - Robert Longstaff
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Campaign Against the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
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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.
You might be interested in a little walk I am taking on November 5th.
http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2008/07/old-holborn-is-going-for-walk.html
New Labour = New Stasi
The greatest threat to the UK since Hitler.
I lived in Germany during the 80's/90's.
Most East Germans I know are stunned by what we currently live under. They wouldn't/didn't stand for it.
Perhaps I'm beiung a bit dim but after I picked up this one I had a look for the conclusions allegedly presented at what was described as a press conference, but there seems to be a shortage of any such thing.
There is an AFP article, seemingly not reported anywhere in the UK, and not big on detail.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080927/wl_afp/g6germanydiplomacypolitics
"... strengthening surveillance, notably of the Internet."
What did I tell you? That the world's governments realise that they cannot force through their agendas without a compliant population, and that free expression and communication via the internet undermines the propagandist role of the MSM, so, to control the world, they MUST control the net. They have no choice. This will force the bastards out into the open - by massively increasing net control/censorship/surveillance they show their hand. Their greatest weapon has always been the ridicule that is showered on those who propose conspiracy - well who looks ridiculous now?
Man, I've been writing about this for 20 years...
This is undeclared civil war - governments against the people.
This is not a cliche this is them setting out the New World Order in its final stage now - Sarkozi actually stated New World in a speech in Canada this week. We need a real revolution and to put all of these fking Mp's in prison - you know its a lie when Bush murders 3000 people and the fckr is still not banged up in jail.
Leaving aside the privacy issues for a second, has anyone actually thought how this might be achieved?
Given that anyone who knows anything about the Internet - say 10% of the users :( - understands the need for a firewall, how exactly is Ms Smith planning on reading my hard drive? Some Spy-bot perhaps, or maybe they plan on using the fabled Microsoft "back door".
Given that anyone who uses Windows without multiple levels of physical security probably deserves to be taken away by the men in black helicopters, I would have thought the upshot of this is a move away to a more openly secure operating system. Like Linux. I can't see Washington and Redmond standing for that!
@ West Morlander - linux on your PC will not save you from having, say, your remote email server or social networking space or blog computer hard disk space searched remotely, either through legal compulsion or other methods.
The Germans and Austrian authorities seem to have been investigating the possibility of various bits of custom written trojan horse spyware for PCs, especially to target Skype VoIP calls and messaging. The Chinese are alleged to have targeted UK Government and business computers, again with trojan horse malware.
There is also research available on exploiting flaws or deliberate weaknesses in the microcode of various integrated circuit chips, which would skip around any operating system software security.
A simple version of this the ability for criminals or intelligence agencies to remotely "upgrade" the flash memory of various models of internet wireless / router / firewall gateway or ADSL modem, or your mobile phone, for password interception or DNS redirection purposes. The very popular BT HomeHub was recently shown to be vulnerable to a remote exploit of its administrative web interface.
Before the stupid cow starts remotely searching hard drives, she may want to make sure that the government and its contractors don't lose their own hard drives. Three MoD data losses affecting most of those in uniform, breach of Article 8 of ECHR, breach of 2 of the 7 data protection principles.
If Smith pisses off the wrong people, she will find her hard drive remotely scanned and wiped!
The Register has now tracked down the obscure end of conference press release, put out by the German government:
Germans seduce Jacqui over remote hacking of disks -
Trojanised Home Sec comes home to infect Parliament
The actual Press Release:
http://www.bmi.bund.de/Internet/Content/Common/Anlagen/Nachrichten/Pressemitteilungen/2008/09/Conclusions,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/Conclusions.pdf
Be very afraid. And dont buy broad band from Bristish Telecom. They pass all browsing records to the government and proactively check on you.
If you are looking at indecent websites or checking your online bank account ..they know what you are doing.
@ mavis coulter - all ISPs do this if they have been subjected to a Data Protection Act section 29 notice "for the purposes of the detection, prevention or prosecution of crime", requesting copies of log files and registration records.