Category Archives: Opinion

Twitter’s new feature was not requested by their users

Posted on 29 January 2012 by johannes

Twitter’s latest addition to its feature list is its ability to censor tweets that run afoul of a country’s restrictions on speech. Why is this being touted as a feature? To answer this question, one must look at the wider … Continue reading →

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Connecting Android Tablet to the TAFE wireless network

Posted on 08 June 2011 by johannes

Well, I must say that working with an Android tablet poses a lot of challenges. Firstly, to get my tablet to connect to the corporate Wifi network at a TAFE college was a serious challenge for my sanity. For the … Continue reading →

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Getting an Android tablet

Posted on 08 June 2011 by johannes

Ever since the idea of an Android tablet started floating about on the internet, I decided that I was going to get one. First there were the cheap and nasty Android tablets coming out of some previously unheard of Chinese … Continue reading →

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Thinking about vodafone egypt and facebook tunisia

Posted on 06 February 2011 by johannes

Looking at the contrast between the use of Facebook in Tunisia and the complete internet blackout in Egypt. Continue reading →

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Experience using Logitech Harmony 300

Posted on 25 December 2010 by johannes

Scenario: I bought a Logitech Harmony 300 programmable universal remote as a christmas gift for $28.95 from Officeworks. Due to the recipients of the gift being non-technical people, I had to set up the gift myself to work with the … Continue reading →

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Assange case file leaks to the press

Posted on 19 December 2010 by johannes

In what is widely believed to be a deliberate move to undermine Mr Assange’s defence case, the details of police allegations by the Swedish authorities have been leaked to the Guardian, an English newspaper. While some newspaper articles have implied … Continue reading →

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OpenBSD IPSEC stack has an FBI backdoor

Posted on 15 December 2010 by johannes

According to a revelation from Theo de Raadt, the IPSEC stack in OpenBSD has a backdoor built in. The code was puportedly inserted by contractors who were also paid by the FBI. This revelation should not come as a big … Continue reading →

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Speaking the truth is not espionage

Posted on 11 December 2010 by johannes

According to this article on the Guardian, the US authorities are preparing to charge Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, with espionage. This shows, once again, the complicity of the Swedish government in the whole process, from the beginning to the very end. … Continue reading →

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Sex without a condom is not the same as rape

Posted on 07 December 2010 by johannes

According to this article, Julian Assange, a founding member and editor of Wikileaks, has been charged not with rape, but with having sex without a condom. The nature of this charge and the decision of the Swedish authorities to use … Continue reading →

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Wikileaks and criminality

Posted on 04 December 2010 by johannes

If we were to trust the news, Wikileaks.org had been involved in some pretty horrendous stuff. It seems like we forgot about the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and that we have to protect the “national interests” of the US … Continue reading →

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