The Complaint While browsing Reddit this morning, I came across an interesting post from user cyrus9020. His post can be viewed below, or at this link. I google open office and the first (paid) link is this: http://www.open-office.us/index.html . It seems to be openoffice from the pictures but i looked at the terms part of the website [...]
F-Droid: The Android Market That Respects Your Rights
Android’s meteoric rise in popularity is due, in no small part, to the fact it is an open source project. Any manufacturer in the world is free to grab the latest Android source code, modify it however they wish, and redistribute it in binary form on their devices. This gave rise to the myriad of [...]
ACLU-NJ Releases “Police Tape” Android Application
The New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-NJ) has recently released an Android application designed to protect the users rights when dealing with police officers called “Police Tape“. The application is designed to not only show the user their applicable rights in a number of possible scenarios, but can also be used [...]
Anonymous Creates Profit Center With Duck Duck Go?
Remastering Ubuntu and creating your own distribution is easy. In fact, this is part of my day job and I can tell you that a child could do it with a little nudge in the right direction. Anonymous, or more accurately, some anonymous person, has remastered Ubuntu 11.10 to create the Anonymous OS. Trust me [...]
US E-Voting System Cracked In 2 Business Days
Within 48 hours, a group of researchers from the University of Michigan cracked the US e-voting system. Using vulnerabilities from the login field and even cookies, the team forced their way into the system. ”We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot.” The hacked was only discovered 2 days later when security [...]
Hackers In Space: Hackerspace Global Grid Interview
At the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 Jens Ohlig, Lars Weiler, and Nick Farr proposed a daunting task: to land a hacker on the Moon by 2034. The plan calls for three separate phases: Establishing an open, free, and globally accessible satellite communication network Put a human into orbit Land on the Moon Interestingly enough, there is [...]
Google Screenwise: Your Privacy Is Worth $25.
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.” – Orwell, 1984 Google’s new program “Screenwise” aims to watch your browsing habitats in an unlimited and unmitigated fashion for [...]
Jailbreaking Is Not a Crime: Protect Your Rights
The 2010 ruling made by the Copyright Office which excluded jailbreaking devices from persecution under the DMCA is set to expire soon, an event that could prove extremely damaging to how you use the devices you own and even websites like The Powerbase. If jailbreaking becomes a criminal offense, than sites which talk about it [...]
Google+ Name Policy Still Flawed
News that Google would be relenting on it’s much criticized decision to require “real” names on Google+ has been making the rounds today, bringing renewed hope to those who avoided the service because of privacy concerns. Unfortunately, closer examination of the statements from Google and a quick check on the updated profile settings is all it [...]