Ok, this is pretty awesome. The Get Out Clause, a Manchester band, decided they ought to film their video using security cams from various places and then securing the clips from their owners using the Freedom of Information Act. Apparently only about a quarter of those requested allowed the clips out, but that was enough. [...]

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Here’s another online thing you can do that’s easy and maybe will have some effect on this whole “let’s give retroactive immunity to the carriers who carried out illegal eavesdropping on us” thing. The EFF’s set up an email campaign you just have to provide your info.
It
couldn’t
be
easier.
Check out how the Senate just caved [...]

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Sigh.
I don’t like to get overly political here, but still… this is ridiculous…
Who needs privacy? Who needs civil liberties? Not Americans. Apparently that’s what our elected officials believe. The NYTimes is reporting on the Senate putting a big, fat stamp of approval on Bush’s previously illegal wiretapping without a warrant schemes. FISA retroactively gives [...]

Categories: homeland security · politics · privacy · rant

First post-snow Monday Art.
Awesome! We (America) just told those lobsterbacks that we can go and kidnap British citizens if we damn well pleased. Those wig wearers thought that we were only talking about kidnapping those involved in terrorism but we got the last word in when we told them that our law applies to anyone [...]

Categories: breakfast links · gaming · homeland security · music · tv · web app

You know how Britain’s been doing all the craaaazy stuff with the video monitors? It seems they’ve had a long history of being Big Brother to their citizens. This campaign seems not to have been a hoax and was run in 2002!

Um.. who thought that was a good campaign??

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A little bit ago we posted the Spoon video featuring Keepon, the li’l yellow robot. Today boingboing points us at this Wired slideshow with some behind the scenes info on Keepon. That little guy’s so cute! And he’s hard working too, he is used in a therapeutic day care center for autistic children. And the [...]

Categories: breakfast links · homeland security

I’d first heard about Chaser’s a bit ago when they posted that terrorist security video that was pretty awesome. Just came across this video where they ask New Yorkers a few tough questions about 9/11 like what year it happened and what date it happened on… As in “Can you recall the exact date that [...]

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Ok, you can’t believe this one. Well, maybe you can, but I can’t. Our Department of Homeland Security, the one that’s supposed to be keeping us safe (but isn’t) you know their new initiative? They’re working with science fiction writers to figure out the next plots that the terrorists will use. Seriously. The dumb thing [...]

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Wow, I say this a lot - what the hell is wrong with the UK? They loves them their citizen surveillance systems. To recap: flying cctvs, lip reading software, loudspeaker cctvs. Now they’ve equipped privately employed wardens with head mounted cameras. First off, privately-employed? You know we don’t approve of the privatization of police forces… [...]

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So, in my switch from Fire to Adium which went completely without pain, as it turns out, I have discovered something really great. Adium has Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) built right in. This is an encryption package that makes having encrypted IM sessions really easy as long as both parties support OTR.
A lot of people say [...]

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