Category Archives: Conspiracies

OK, so you’re frustrated because you go to some airport and it’s closed. So you joke ‘I’m gonna blow the place sky high’ on Twitter. Does anyone expect the next step to be: you get arrested and found guilty?! It … Continue reading →

Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.The apparent blacklisting came … Continue reading →

Brein, the NL anti-download people self-charged with finding and destroying file sharers, is using highly dubious methods with which to do this. FTD: Brein uploadt wél illegale bestanden | Webwereld.

It’s throwing out the month old SWIFT (Financial) data mining agreement and has decided it not only wants to track and keep ALL financial data going in or out of  the country, but also any encrypted data needs to be … Continue reading →

Not only do you get to feel like a criminal upon entering the US, but your private information is also shared with other governmental agencies for no apparent reason. And if you come from the EU, you get to pay … Continue reading →

Well, there’s a surprise: airport full body scanners not only get peeked at by their collegues and turn into full colour pictures when you put a negative filter on them in photoshop, but they’ve been storing the images for ages. … Continue reading →

Which basically means that the arm of the law becomes the arbiter of the law, instead of just carrying out the aims of the law. As this concerns freedom of speech and expression, these decisions need to be made by … Continue reading →

Why don’t people get it? Centralised databases are dreadfull things! The CIOT (Centraal Informatiepunt Onderzoek Telecommunicatie) database, which contains IP addresses, email addresses and name and address data, is accessed around 3m times a year. Apparently only 1% of these … Continue reading →

So anyone with a friend in the Greek police force (and by friend I mean name and bank account number) can find out allll kinds of stuff about anyone in the database – which will soon be everyone. Sounds secure. … Continue reading →

Apple claims that allthough it the new privacy policy enables them to gather and share this information, the information is anonymised and is currently not being shared with anyone. The information is sent in batches every 12 hours and the … Continue reading →

So, Lucas is still making money off Star Wars and defending his copyright left right and centre (see also the lightsabre article), but the actor who played the body of Darth Vader is cut out completely. Because DMCA protects the … Continue reading →

The US are at it again: if you tape the police, they consider you dangerous. If the judge decides in the favour of the police, any tape you bring into court showing police malpractice will be inadmissible. These laws were … Continue reading →

Now that more and more police brutality is being exposed using camera’s, the police are now going after people who use their camera’s. What’s worse, the courts are standing behind them. They’re using the two party consent sureveillance law to … Continue reading →

Showing you how much governments care about free speech, Julian Assange, who moves around every few weeks, has had his passport confiscated for looking worn. They’re not giving him a new one, it seems, which means it’ll be easy to … Continue reading →

The cameras, which combine number plate reading technology with a global positioning satellite receiver, are similar to those used in roadworks. The AA said it believed the new system could cover a network of streets as opposed to a straight … Continue reading →

Using the Google maps tool, you can see how many requests have been fielded by each government, as well as what kind of requests they have made. Government requests directed to Google and YouTube.

That’s how these misused things always start – anti-terrorlaws, jew extermination: no, we just want to do this one little thing. Once the mechanism is in there, well we might just as well increase its functionalities just a little bit … Continue reading →

Yup, this is what happens to DRM servers: they go down and you can’t play your game, listen to your music, or really do anything with the product you bought. Ubisoft’s game servers have been down for longer than 10 … Continue reading →

Showing that the LibDems in the UK are now the lapdogs of major industry, they have proposed an amendment allowing copyright owners to force ISPs to take content offline without any proof that the copyright belongs to them. “During today's … Continue reading →