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A while back Ubuntu introduced a method of getting users' personal data by hijacking local search queries directly from the desktop search function.

It made quite a bit of noise, so to help those who insist on using ...

Lately in the news, some mayor smoked crack, the scandal lasted months with the Bob first denying and then admitting his acts.

The part I think blows is the part where the media focuses so much on this relatively insignificant story when there are so many other things to report. Even on...

GNU is turning 30 and it's been pointed out to me that I have not mentioned that here. So voila, that's done.

Happy GNU year, may more software and its users be Free.

This should probably be a series. How many times have you read an article written by a "specialist" in some domain that you happen to know a bit about, only to realise that it's crap ? Crap that many people will read and believe.

Today I was sent this post titled "

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you use PayPal you're looking for trouble.

Lately PayPal froze MailPile's funds. MailPile is a crowdfunded project to create Free Software...

Censoring Inappropriate Content

David Cameron would like to setup filters at ISPs for all home users. These filters would sieve out content that is judged as "inappropriate" by the authorities. Only the subscriber would be authorised to deactivate the filters, and to do this, he/she m...

After the clear explanations of how various governments are spying on everyone using mostly popular web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Hotmail, Skype, etc etc, it's almost a surprise that nothing has changed. Half of the web still uses Google Analytics and an array of interactiv...

The other day I was on the JFK Airtrain. While at Jamaica Station I pulled out my camera to take a photo, immediately the train operator told me (his exact words): You can't take photos because 9/11. I asked what was the...

Today I was doing some tests with someone's iPhone, I used various browsers to access this website using HTTPS. One of the tests I did was with Opera Mini. What shocked me was that with Opera Mini there were no certificate warnings at all. That's odd as my certificate is self signed.

A ...

Today in New York City...

Then again, this could be anything.

This is a guest post from a good friend of mine.

Right now Brazilian people have reached a point where they can't stand the lack of social investment and massive pacific protests are happening everywhere in the country demanding better health, education, transport and infrastructure. Br...

By now you may already have heard about PRISM. In short it is a surveillance program run by the NSA that collects data about (almost) ev...

If you haven't heard of it, EME, or Encrypted Media Extensions, could be a part of the W3C specification that would allow a website to control a visitors web browser. The goal would be to restrict access to content, this ranges from restricting ...

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act which would enter U.S. law if passed, the House of Representatives will be voting on this in the next few days. There are many flaws with this, the EFF has a good FAQ about CISPA. In short it gi...

If you are American it is possible that by violating the Terms of Service of a website (which constantly change without warning) that you are a criminal. With that in mind, here are my Terms of Service: By visiting this website you are exceeding your authorized access. Therefor...

The discussion about implement DRM in HTML has been ongoing on the W3C mailing lists for a while now. Sometimes it seems more of a flame war than others. Companies like Netflix, Microsoft and even Google are trying to push for a standard that would allow the content distributors to...

The more time goes by the more I feel money is not only evil, but also a device that is blocking our society from evolving properly. I'm sure everyone does at some point. I wanted to write a complete and long post about what I think, but that might take years before it happens. So ...

The other day I finally got to see Louis CK live, at the o2 (which is a shitty place for comedy). One word: Hilarious.

So there, we're even, I downloaded his stuff without paying, but then I got a bunch of friends who never heard of him to go watch his show. And they enjoyed t...

If you haven't heard by now, then here's the news, Ubuntu is developing their own display server (Mir) to replace X. The fun part is that their already is a replacement been under development called Wayla...

There are too many emails being sent from donotreply@domain.tld addresses. These addresses explicitly don't exist and/or will not accept emails, yet they are the sender/replyto of important emails like order confirmations and what not. I've recently seen this for domain name tran...

While playing around with the menus (some minor CSS3 effects) I realised it would be possible to make some sort of Etch A Sketch. Maybe not quite as good, nor as magic. But it's still fun and takes just a few lines of CSS to be added to some basic HTML divs.