The Great Firewall of Australia is still being worked upon by the evil legal minions of Senator Conroy. At the time of writing, it’s not illegal to tell you how to bypass censorware. I’m hoping that the legislation has no retrospective provisions in it (which would be really evil). Here’s how you get around censorship in…
Category: Rants
Censorship – Bye bye Labor
The Labor party is doomed to be a single term government. They are killing their support base – social progressives and young folks alike are abandoning ship like never before. I have never hidden my dislike for the conservative side of politics, but to totally kick sand in the face of your true believers time…
GMail – ORBS blacklist FAIL
Hilarious fun for all the family. Google’s GMail service has been blacklisted by an ORBS product. These ORBS places are run by dumb ass vigilantes. The Internet just doesn’t need wanna-be-cops who have no legal basis for their operations. Just in case you’re wondering, I’ve been blacklisted by similar morons in the past and simply…
Advanced Persistent Threat – risk management by a new name
I am so sick of APT this and APT that. Advanced Persistent Threats, essentially state sponsored intelligence gathering, are no different to the age old espionage between EADS and Boeing – something that CANNOT be prevented by coining yet another new FUD term like APT. Espionage is at least the second oldest profession in the…
Black Day For Australia
Today, the Labor Government, pandering to a tiny minority of voters who will NEVER vote for them, will proceed with censoring our Internet. Many of these hard right wing “Christian” (who obviously missed the entire point of the New Testament) “voters” (Exclusive Bretheren, etc) do not have computers let alone TV’s or newspapers to be…
Be careful for what you wish for
Well, the Emissions Trading Scheme is dead – for now. Yay! I do a little dance on its grave. We’ll have to fight it when the double dissolution election comes up sooner than later. However, I wasn’t expecting the mad monk, Tony Abbot, to gain the Liberal leadership. That was a surprise, as I bet…
Emissions trading scheme – epic fail
Unlike the deniers in the Liberal party, I understand climate science well enough to know that we should give our only planet the benefit of the (very little) doubt. It’s time to act. But not with an ETS. I hope that the Liberals (== conservatives, for my US readers) defeat the ETS a.k.a Carbon Pollution…
“Protect the Data” Idiot! Redux
Richard Bejtlich at his TaoSecurity Blog makes a very strong assertion that we’re all idiots for wanting to protect data, rather than the container. I’m not going to play a semantic game about protecting data versus the thing the data is in at the moment, but honestly, I think he misses a really strong point as…
Google: Don’t be evil
I work on an open source project, ESAPI for PHP. Well, “work” might be too strong a word for it, but I try to prod its lifeless carcass from time to time. That’s not the reason I write today. I write because of stupidity, and evil being conducted in the name of a “law”. I…
Neilsen on password security vs usability
I read Jakob Neilsen’s post on password security, and although he has a point, there are several issues as to why this is a monumentally bad idea. First, passwords are a fundamentally bad idea for all data risk classifications. Instead of trying to make passwords more usable, how about getting rid of them? Second, exposing…