Why Wikileaks will fail

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few days, you will be aware that the whistle blowing website Wikileaks has recently published a massive collection of US government memos dating back to the 1960s. Even the issuing of a D-Notice has failed to prevent the reporting of some of the contents […]

Marcus Povey

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few days, you will be aware that the whistle blowing website Wikileaks has recently published a massive collection of US government memos dating back to the 1960s. Even the issuing of a D-Notice has failed to prevent the reporting of some of the contents […]

Interception Modernisation Programme

In the middle of the most drastic budget cuts since the great depression, with billions being slashed from education and welfare, the Interception Modernisation Programme is coming back to life like some horror movie monster. Yes, it would seem that Labour’s Orwellian program to monitor everyone’s internet activity has been resurrected by the coalition government to the tune of […]

Marcus Povey

In the middle of the most drastic budget cuts since the great depression, with billions being slashed from education and welfare, the Interception Modernisation Programme is coming back to life like some horror movie monster. Yes, it would seem that Labour’s Orwellian program to monitor everyone’s internet activity has been resurrected by the coalition government to the tune of […]

The Facebook question: is privacy dead?

The other day I took the decision to delete my Facebook account. There has been a lot about Facebook and privacy in the tech press over the past few weeks – making live chats public, the ABC bug, criminalising violations of their terms of service, etc. Facebook has a clear habit of leaking data, and […]

Marcus Povey

The other day I took the decision to delete my Facebook account. There has been a lot about Facebook and privacy in the tech press over the past few weeks – making live chats public, the ABC bug, criminalising violations of their terms of service, etc. Facebook has a clear habit of leaking data, and […]