Sending information over the internet can be like using postcards and VoIP (iChat, Skype, Gizmo, Google Talk, etc.) is no exception.
To solve this Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, the most widely used email encryption software in the world, has recently released an application for encrypting video and audio calls over the internet.
It’s called Zfone and it’s as easy as starting the app up before you begin a call (all people on call need the app). It works with Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X, or Linux. The only VoIP app it doesn’t work with is Skype because Skype doesn’t use open standards, unlike every other VoIP app in the world, so you’re better off without Skype (use iChat, Google Talk, Gizmo or any other option out there).
You know a government is trying to look tough, pandering to the sadist vote, when one of the country’s own police forces rejects government plans to make wider use of Taser guns.
Noam Chomsky discusses the meaning of President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory and the possibilities ahead for real democratic change at a speech last week in Boston.
Kiwi Tom Chapman writes for Public Address about the authoritarian bureaucracy that has been taking root under New Labour’s watch in Britain.
The UK police, who have my DNA, have already sold DNA data to private companies and, according to Jenny Willott MP, this includes “sinister explorations into ethnic profiling.”
I’ve pencilled in the advent of a National ID card and/or biometric passports as points at which I might leave Britain. I just don’t want to be a part of a society that has a centralised infrastructure whereby the government or some numbskull at the Post Office/Police can have access to all this information and use it against people they don’t like.
I don’t how many times I’ve heard the cliché “if you don’t have something to hide you’ve got nothing to worry about” so in some ways a lot of people here deserve such a government.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, among others, have been indicted (formally accused) by a Texa Grand Jury for ”organised criminal activity” related to alleged abuse of private prison inmates.
The 3-page long indictment involves Cheney’s USD 85 M investment in the Vanguard Group - an investment management company that reportedly has interests in the prison companies in charge of the detention centers. (via novinite.com)
Let’s hope this is just the start of a chain of indictments against these criminals. I don’t believe in the death penalty but if the letter of law were followed in the U.S. that’s what some of these guys would get in the end for their war crimes.
Religious faith is not inconsistent with reason. — Tony Blair, doing what he does best: getting it wrong.
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