Tag Archive for 'privacy'


Tuesday, Mar 4th 2008 by Daniel Lim

Paddy and Manny are two male Labradors and a well-trained DVD sniffing squad from the MPAA, whose members include Hollywood studios like Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox and Universal.. Etc. At present, they are being loaned to Malaysia’s Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs to sniff out a certain [...]

Thursday, Nov 1st 2007 by James Allan Brady

C is for Cookie that’s good enough for me! Alright, so here is what is going on, there are 9 separate consumer and privacy groups that have asked the FTC (Federal Trade Commision) to make a “do not track” list of servers that give off cookies that they can block.

I have two issues with this, [...]


Saturday, Aug 4th 2007 by James Allan Brady

A lot, especially since being outed as the press’ mole in the hacker-only conference DefCon. Her measly goal was to sneak in as a programmer and catch hackers admitting to illegal activity.

Saturday, Dec 30th 2006 by Chris Davies

After the news that China has decided to force manufacturers to standardise phone charging ports to the mini-USB format, it turns out that there’s an even easier way to get the industry-wide feature you want implemented: just be the FBI.  What cellphone manufacturers are reluctant to include in-among all the blurb about Bluetooth and high-speed [...]

Saturday, Dec 2nd 2006 by Chris Davies

Is there anyone else amused by privacy filters for notebook displays?  Honestly, there’s all this fuss about viewable-angle of the LCD, and then you go and slap a piece of vision-impairing plastic over the front of it!  Seriously, though, there are always going to be some people who don’t want their desk neighbour to see [...]

Tuesday, Nov 7th 2006 by Chris Davies

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Occasionally, when I’m dining with dignitaries and minor members of royalty, someone peers across the table and asks “haven’t I seen you on Spandex Turkey Lovers Online?” and I’m forced to mutter some hastily conjured excuses that it certainly couldn’t be me, must be a doppelganger, have you had your eyes checked recently?  The things [...]





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