Entries Tagged as 'privacy'
YouTube removes content, Turkey lifts ban
So, YouTube removed the offensive content and Turkey lifted the ban. I don’t know if this was “right” or not from any moral standpoint, my gut says it probably isn’t but that’s a completely kneejerk opinion. What surprises me, though, is that anyone at all was surprised at this move. I knew it was going [...]
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YouTube, Turkey and Tor
So Turkey just shut down access to YouTube. It seems like a bit of an overreaction, especially given that Google seems more than happy to take content down from the site these days. Anyhow, it’s things like this that highlight the importance of Tor. As countries - and I don’t exempt the US from that [...]
The Mighty Tor!
That’s no typo, true believer, I’m not talking about the God of Thunder. I’ve been meaning to write something up about Tor, The Onion Router (I’m not sure why it isn’t TOR, since it’s an acronym, but it’s always Tor) - and this article on a professor busted for using it seems like a good [...]
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Cypherpunks
I can remember back in the day the cypherpunk movement - it sprang from cyberpunk but was a thing all it’s own. I was pretty interested in it for awhile following along in the mid to late 90’s, but my interest tapered off. It was a group focused on privacy in an increasingly connected world [...]
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