After rejecting the plans five times, the House of Lords finally dropped its resistance to fingerprint and take mugshots of everyone on the island. Compulsory ID cards? Of course not! You will not be required to use an ID card unless you wish to work, use the banking or health system, travel or receive benefits. [...]
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Get free privacy&security software through Trialpay
January 28th, 2009
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I had a virtual credit card with $1 credit left and I thought about giving a go at Trialpay, a company that promises you free software in exchange for signing up with one of their sponsors. I am very satisfied with the results, I got two products for free. The first rule of Capitalism, is [...]
Thames Valley Police Officer Number 3233
December 17th, 2008
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How does it feel when someone unknown spies on you? How does it feel when someone unknown records you on CCTV? How does it feel when you someone unknown has a file on you? How does it feel when someone unknow takes your photograph? How does it feel when someone unknown follows all your movements? [...]
Researching people online, advanced internet search
December 3rd, 2008
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Most Joe Does end up leaving some kind of tracks on the internet, a few months ago I posted about TinEye, an internet searcher that allows you to upload an image and it will match it with websites that are using the graphic in one shape or another . I have now found a much [...]
Hard drive destruction with Thermite
November 12th, 2008
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You don’t have to do this unless you are really nuts, I include this video of a hard drive drestruction with thermite as a curiosity more than anything else. If you need to wipe your hard disk completely I reccomend you use DBAN which is free and open source and it will work for any [...]
Video: Echelon, The Most Secret Spy System
November 6th, 2008
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Using secure FTP for data transfer
October 31st, 2008
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Anyone with a website is likely to upload the data via FTP but this protocol is easily intercepted with the worst part being that in FTP even the passwords and usernames are sent in the clear. Packet sniffers such as Wireshark can easily intercept it. This is why I reccomend you use SFTP instead, aka [...]
Countermeasures against the UK Communications Data Bill
October 22nd, 2008
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In order to protect British citizens from crime the UK government has come up with an idea, a law called The Communications Data Bill. Every email within, or coming into or out of the UK will be time stamped and logged (email content not included, at this stage), and websites will be tracked so that [...]
Backup of your own passport chip
October 20th, 2008
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The Hackers Choice (THC/vonJeek) has released an emulator applet that allows you to create a backup of your own passport chip(s). It can be downloaded for free here: http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-epassport/ You can also use the tool for modification. For example, if you don’t like your picture, you can change it. Or, if you don’t want someone [...]
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