19th December 2011. On a lighter note approaching Xmas. At last an admission from the participants of home renovation, improvement shows that the team of five that completely renovates a house in a weekend actually had behind the scenes, 20 or 30 extra tradesman all unseen on the camera.
‘Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home’
All the best for 2012
11th December 2011. Read and weep for our democracies as we allow our governments to slide into ‘Stasi’ states
The slide into a surveillance state
So who’s buying all the spy gear
The Spy Files
And so one of our citizens sits under arrest for 380 days in a country, supposedly under the rule of law, without trial, for telling the truth ,and our Australian Government does SFA.
1st December 2011. Your smartphone could be watching just about everything you do, security researcher Trevor Eckhart argued in a video posted in the last few weeks. There is a hidden process on many smartphones, called ‘Carrier IQ’ which has the ability to record and transmit keystroke data and web searches to unannounced locations. This process is reportedly on 130 million mobile devices worldwide.
‘The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink’
