Category Archives: internet

Next week, all UK mobile numbers will be fair game for spammers, scammers and buggers – not a lot of people know that

. . .and that’s the problem. The Directory of Mobile Phone numbers goes live next week. All numbers, including those belonging to children, will be potentially open to cold calling and the general abuse that unscrupulous telesales people subject us to. Unless you particularly wish to be cold called, deluged with text offers and – [...]

It's official! Parasite blogging bastards have killed print journalism

Hold the front page – on second thoughts, don’t bother. There won’t be one to hold much longer. That bloody web thingy has eaten our journalists. Everything we hold dear – the right to be told what to think by poker-arsed blowhards in the pay of Illuminati kingmakers, fed and watered by PR lizards in [...]

Your mentally challenged, sociopathic Big Brother is hacking Facebook

“Britons, never, never, never, shall be slaves.” UK National Anthem (to be replaced with ‘Do the Vernon Coaker’) A few posts back I wondered whether M15 and its master, the CIA, Twittered. Well, not for the time in the world of Thus, fact has rapidly overtaken fiction. The inept and authoritarian UK government is actually [...]

Why you should choose your ISP with care – correction to my earlier piece

. . . I got it wrong earlier. Subversion of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the real threat to data privacy. In response to the excellent comments posted following my piece about browsers and spyware, I need to point out that the problem goes much deeper than browser technology. Internet Service providers (ISPs) have [...]