National “CC your emails to Theresa May” day tomorrow!

Our economy is officially in the grip of the much feared double dip recession, and since we’re all in it together it is our duty to save the country money wherever we can. We’re in the big society after all! So, since the government’s plan to spy on every UK citizen’s email, IM and phone […]

Marcus Povey

Our economy is officially in the grip of the much feared double dip recession, and since we’re all in it together it is our duty to save the country money wherever we can. We’re in the big society after all! So, since the government’s plan to spy on every UK citizen’s email, IM and phone […]

Introducing the Simple Registration Key generator

Over on Github I’ve open sourced a little library for generating and verifying product registration keys. I needed this for a couple of my projects, and I’ve made it available with hopes of saving anyone else from having to write one! The tool takes a someone’s name and a salt (which is your product id […]

Marcus Povey

Over on Github I’ve open sourced a little library for generating and verifying product registration keys. I needed this for a couple of my projects, and I’ve made it available with hopes of saving anyone else from having to write one! The tool takes a someone’s name and a salt (which is your product id […]

What technical countermeasures are there for the UK’s email snooping agenda?

I asked this question over on Hacker News, as well as Quora, but I thought I’d also ask it here… The UK plans to intercept all electronic communication. They currently don’t plan to snoop on content, but as noted elsewhere connection data is just as invasive. To me this is both a civil liberties and […]

Marcus Povey

I asked this question over on Hacker News, as well as Quora, but I thought I’d also ask it here… The UK plans to intercept all electronic communication. They currently don’t plan to snoop on content, but as noted elsewhere connection data is just as invasive. To me this is both a civil liberties and […]