Monthly Archives: July 2008

Encrypt all your traffic!

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The guys from the Pirate Bay have an ambitious plan to encrypt everything stored on your computer and everything transmitted to and from your PC using IPETEE or Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets

With Europe implementing a 3 strikes – out and turning into the same spying-on-your-citizens-in-the-name-of-freedom/security/whatever type of place as the commie US is, these kinds of technologies become more and more important.

USAF Tanker acquisition

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This has now gone into a total and utter farce. First there’s a competition, from which there’s a clear winner. This is what the USAF wants to have. The winner isn’t an American company, but will create and sustain more American jobs than choosing the American country. So Boeing sues on spurious grounds. Then the Government Accountability Office claws in and states they think the Air Force didn’t select properly. Now when the Air Force is expected to deliver its verdict (taking into account the GAO report), the DoD strips the Air Force of the ability to choose and the politicians will be in charge of deciding which hardware the military is going to have to go to war with. This sounds like a really very bad idea indeed. Of course with the contract valued at $35 billion, there’s understandably a whole host of politicians who want their grubby little hands on some of that action.

Google Earth Weather – Global Clouds Animation

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Well, it took a little while to find, but Barnabu has a live cloud layer, offered as a KML, which they then half the resolution from, and put into a time lapse system which shows the last 10 days, which you can then play through.

Very nice implementation of something I’ve so far only managed to find in Earth Browser which used to be programmed in Quicktime and is now made using Adobe Air.

Is the UK coming to its senses?

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James Hall, head of the British Identity and Passport Service has come out and condemned centralised databases and expressed doubt at the ability of the government to adequately secure your personal data. The conservatives are allready suggesting keeping the data in seperate databases. This is a much, much better solution, as each acces to each database can be controlled, meaning there is less potential for misuse as well as less chance of all your data being compromised in one time.

Where the hell is Matt?

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OK, so this guy does a silly dance and gets it on the internet and becomes vaguely famous. He then goes and gets sponsored by some gum brand to do his silly dance all over the world. After this is released, he becomes quite a bit more famous. Now people are writing in telling him they’d like to be in his dance when he next comes over. So the gum brand sponsors him again and he goes to 49 (!) countries to do his silly dance. People love it and join in!
Yes, I realise it sounds silly, but this is a fantastic video, unbelievably all shot on location and it’ll put a total smile on your face. Well worth watching!

So watch it now!

Antivirus programmes tested

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As a result of yesterdays revelation that AVG is flooding the internet with fake traffic, I had a look around to see what’s the best free antivirus solution out there.

I turns out that AV-test.org tests these scanners on a regular basis and has whole loads of white papers out.

Anyway, Security.nl has a synopsis of the march 2008 results and of the free ones, Avira Antivir seems to be the best.

So I got rid of AVG and installed antivir, which seems to be running quite happily now.