Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
10 March 2013

Armed UK Police Raid House Over Facebook Picture Showing Toy Weapon In Background

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One of the reasons Techdirt rails against exaggerated responses to supposed terrorist threats is that it has caused police forces around ...
11 November 2012

UN Assault on the Open Internet and Privacy

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As you may recall , terrorism was one of the primary justifications for bringing in the disproportionate Draft Communications Data Bill: ...
29 September 2012

Let's Clean up the Clean IT Project

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Any EU project called " Clean IT ", with all that implies for elements that are regarded as "dirty", is worrying enou...

EU Officials Propose Internet Cops On Patrol, No Anonymity & No Obscure Languages (Because Terrorism!)

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Back in February we wrote about the ominously-named "Clean IT" project in Europe, designed to combat the use of the Internet b...
30 June 2012

EU Parlamentarian Gallo: ACTA Dissent 'A Soft Form Of Terrorism'

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Marielle Gallo is probably best known for the Gallo Report, which Techdirt described back in 2010 as a "similarly draconian intellec...
02 March 2012

EU Censorship Plan With A Cheesy Name: The Clean IT Project

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A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt reported on UK politicians calling for ISPs to "take down" terrorist content. Now it seems th...
10 May 2010

British Sense of Humour? Not So Much

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What a sad, sad day for this country: A trainee accountant who posted a message on Twitter threatening to blow an airport "sky high...
10 November 2008

A Question of Priorities

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Britain's only specialist police human trafficking unit is to be shut down after two years because of a lack of funding, the government ...
17 October 2008

Hoon Mines the Moron Meme

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One of Tony Blair's stupider statements was the following: "The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist....
01 October 2008

Just Say "No"....

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...to 42 days . (Via Boing Boing .)
03 March 2008

Japan Falls Back on the "Terrorist" Trope

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Godwin's Law states : "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches o...
04 December 2007

Wikipedia, Terrorism and the Sunlight of Openness

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If this is all true, things are obviously going from bad to worse at Wikipedia: Controversy has erupted among the encyclopedia's core c...
24 January 2007

There is no War on Terror

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Blimey , there's hope yet: London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And th...
14 January 2007

Open Source War and Google Earth

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How's this for a confluence : Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth interne...
07 December 2006

The Politicians' Big Disconnect

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According to heise online : the [German] Federal Ministry of the Interior declares the ability to search PCs without physical access to them...
17 August 2006

Openness, "Terror" and 1984

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One of my earliest posts on this blog was about Craig Murray and how he was using his blog to get out into the open ideas and information...
08 August 2006

Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

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One of the tensions that emerges from time to time in this blog is that between openness and security. In the current climate of the so-cal...
18 May 2006

Openness vs. Privacy

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There's an interesting tension between openness and privacy: openness is good except when it might infringe on justifiable privacy. Thi...
29 April 2006

Poodles, UFOs, Truth, Terror and Microsoft

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The facts behind the UK cracker who ill-advisedly decided to break into Pentagon systems just gets more and more bizarre. The main issue is...