* Posts by arthvr

6 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2011

India's spooks prepare to peer through their own PRISM

arthvr

listening for the obvious

Of course they will be listening for words like "bomb" and "kill" because terrorists are too stupid to use substitutes like "carrots" and "promote".

This is the main flaw in all the "keeping the people safe by spying on them" arguments

IT MELTDOWN ruins Cyber Monday for RBS, Natwest customers

arthvr

downdetector is down - oh the humanity!

UK.gov to unveil reborn, renamed net-snoop plans in Queen's Speech

arthvr
Big Brother

Hypothetically ...

If the securicrats continue attacking the freedoms of the netizens then it wouldn't be beyond the abilities of the latter to attach signature files to every e-mail, forum post and every second tweet etc saying something like:

"DISCLAIMER: I am not a terrorist, I dont have any bombs, semtex.... I don't sell skunk, ecstacy, ketamine ... I don't collect photographs of kids ... I don't go on jihad ... If this has triggered any illegal spying systems, I do apologise." ( fill in the gaps to your own taste).

We are assured that they don't do routine scanning of everything we write, so that would be OK then, wouldn't it?.

Barclaycard pay-by-bonk fraud risk exposes Amazon's security

arthvr
Boffin

tin foil is the answer

There is money to be made by someone who produces a tin foil lined wallet - perosnally I don't carry my Barclaycard anywhere since they give me the new type.

Rhino horn price spike drives record poaching

arthvr
Unhappy

It's more corruption than sustainable management

You can be certain of one thing: any money produced by fat white men with small penises who pay to "hunt" rhinos will disappear into the pockets of officials rather than sustain wildlife in South Africa. In the rest of Africa wildlife is more or less doomed in the long run thanks to outside powers who flooded the continent with AK-47s.

It would be different if "hunters" were to do it in traditional African style, wearing a loincloth and carrying a spear.

Meltemi is real – Nokia’s skunkworks Linux

arthvr

Meltemi is a wind

The word means a hot dry wind in Summer over the Aegean Sea - which can be dangerous for seafarers. Make of that what you will in this context