You already know I don’t like Phorm. You already know I don’t like the activities of the incumbents in the Home Office. Mind-bogglingly, they have been involved in joint “corruption”, according to this article. The Home Office asked a private company (Phorm) for advice in drafting a document stating the Home Office’s own views on… (read more)
For an excellent summary of Microsoft’ anti-competitive history, read this document and discussion at Slashdot. It’s an very well-written and fully referenced article, and also very readable.
Where do I start? This blog post has been simmering within me for ages, but I’m finally writing the thing up… I’ll try not to make it ramble too much. Bad things: Ever since 11.09.2001 and, in the UK since 07.07.2005, new laws and initiatives curtailing freedoms and personal privacy have been flooding in; Specifically,… (read more)
This may or may not be a hypothetical question. Let’s say I don’t trust my ISP. Let’s say that I don’t want any traffic at all to pass in the clear across my broadband connection. No DNS, no SMTP email, nothing. Let’s also say that I have control of a server Out There On The… (read more)
