. . .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 – [...]
Category Archives: Technology
Next week, all UK mobile numbers will be fair game for spammers, scammers and buggers – not a lot of people know that
July 10, 2009 – 9:27 am
What is 'free' about the web?
May 23, 2009 – 8:27 pm
Perversely, Web 2.0 has become synonymous with an American mythology of freedom. But information technology works best in small well-organised political units with high levels of social protection. So there is every reason to believe that the net works best with another notion of freedom – the security of knowing that failure will not have [...]
Your mentally challenged, sociopathic Big Brother is hacking Facebook
March 19, 2009 – 5:24 pm
“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 considering [...]
Ignoring India's poverty is a recipe for nuclear Armageddon
December 19, 2008 – 3:14 pm
Thank God for George Bush. He laughs in the face of fear as he gives more nukes to the country with the most hungry people in it. And the funny bit is that despite parts of the American Christian right actually jockeying for Armegeddon, he probably achieved all this by mistake, and in the process he [...]
A raga of Tata, Land Rover and Jaguar, as British as Tetley's Tea
December 18, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Margaret Thatcher privatised Jaguar in 1984 to howls of protest from people who liked big rusty cars that broke down a lot. Ford bought the brand for $2.5 billion in 1990, to more howls from Bufton Tufton (67) stalwart of the Enoch Powell Golf Club, Jaguar’s only customer. Sales fell to around 15,000 units a [...]
Why you should choose your ISP with care – correction to my earlier piece
December 12, 2008 – 12:49 pm
. . . 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 the [...]