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After seeing this guy, Gregory D. Evans talk last year about Wikileaks, the Anon people, Mastercard and all that I seriously felt this guy was a bit of a phony. It turns out, his emails where got to a...

In 2 days the new Debian Squeeze will become "stable". Yes, new stable. Wow right ?

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So Egypt has decided to not wait for external forces to relieve them from an authoritarian regime and bring them democracy. Inspired by Tunisia they have taken to the streets and get organised. The response from the local government is quite simple, kill the Internet

The new year dead birds mystery has been shortly followed by a other mysterious events. Indeed the streets of London have been invaded literally overnight by Christmas trees. They seem t...

Tomorrow, January 15 2011, there should be a few protests worldwide to support Wikileaks and Freedom of Speech, there could be one close enough for you to attend, check out the map for more info and spread the word.

Seems like right after the yearly christian holidays the Wikileaks plate is being re-heated. A subpoena has been issued asking Twitter to provide certain information to the United States Department of Justice. This seems like a way of propagating fear and...

You may have noticed in your web server logs that there are a few visitors that seem to come from crappy websites, this is sometimes called referrer spam. This is profitable for a couple of reasons:

• So...

Some banks have complexified their online security measures, to me this seems more like a way of making the consumers think it's secure rather than actually being secure. Here is the logon process of one of the banks I am talking about (there are many that use the same type of system so no need ...

There is something called the The Humble Indie Bundle #2 where you can buy a few video games for whatever price you want. These games work on MacOS, GNU/Linux and Windows, and do not have DRM though they are not Free.

Interestingly the sales st...

Hello Anonymous. Some people have criticised your actions, called you a "kiddie script" and/or claimed you have hurt "the cause". I tend to disagree because:

• You made noise and raised awareness
• Nobody was hurt and no credit card numbers stolen
• You have b...

The past week or so has been quite interesting and seems this pending issue will not simply "go away", at least not that easily. I have gathered a few interesting links about what's up and down, I will try to update this.. (there are so many pages about this it's out of control).

Wikil...

Today I would like to talk/rant about URL shorteners, these things that take a good old link and turn it into something short and obscure.

One day people realised that sending long links over some mediums such as email or instant messaging could be a pain as the link would sometimes be cut ...