Big Brother State is a short movie bei David Scharf. It’s a short summary of todays threats to a free society. It’s giving a quick overview on things like trusted computing, video surveillance and data retention compressed to 4:24min. Have a look. Links: bigbrotherstate.com
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sniffing Skype
This slashdot article, based on a forum post in the skype forums reveals, that Skype obviously reads the “/etc/passwd” file and Firefox’ profiles and Addons. The “/etc/passwd” file saves usernames and passwords in Linux. Firefox profiles contain saved passwords, bookmarks and cookies. The Skype team has not yet commented this behaviour. Once again we see [...]
BadVista
So you may ask yourself: What’s wrong with Vista? The site http://badvista.fsf.org will inform you about, why they think Vista and Microsoft are bad. I link this site because I think they give an easy to understand overview on problems of DRM and advantages of open source.
A Scanner Darkly
The cover if the DVD caught my attention, because of the nice vector in the front. A Scanner Darkly is a masterpiece of animation. The main characters actor is Keanu Reeves which makes the movie more interesting than it is in the first place. The visual effects reminded me of the comic shooter XIII. The [...]
panopti.com
Hello and a big sorry for my non-german readers. Diesen Post werde ich entgegen meiner Gewohnheiten auf Deutsch verfassen um auf die Missstände und Probleme einer Überwachungsgesellschaft hinzuweisen. Unserer Gesellschaft. Schaut es euch an, verschickt es weiter und achja werft einen Blick aufs Thermometer. LINK zu panopti.com – Die schöne neue Welt der Überwachung
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