“There’s not much point in having an opsec tool,” says PORTAL’s Rogers, “if you don’t have an opsec …

“There’s not much point in having an opsec tool,” says PORTAL’s Rogers, “if you don’t have an opsec frame of mind.”

Maintaining your privacy online, like investing in stocks or looking good naked, has become one of those nagging desires that leaves Americans with a surplus of stress and a deficit of facts. So it’s no surprise that a cottage industry of privacy marketers now wants to sell them the solution in a $50 piece of hardware promising internet “anonymity” or “invisibility.” And as with any panacea in a box, the quicker the fix, the more doubt it deserve…

Using Hangouts to make a call to Verizon to figure out why my phone is screwy today only to google up…

Using Hangouts to make a call to Verizon to figure out why my phone is screwy today only to google up "Verizon Outages" while on hold and finding that several key cell towers were offline probably due to a fiber cut. By the time I got a human on the call I had the answer for them.
First world solutions. 

I have not watched them all but the first one certianly made me want to keep watching. 

I have not watched them all but the first one certianly made me want to keep watching. 

The Economy. Everyone’s talking about it, but who can explain it? 20 award­-winning directors and 10 of our most respected economists add their voice to the chorus with a thought­-provoking short­-film series.

Using tech to overcome governmental blockages…..In 1957 Paul Robeson was not allowed to travel out…

Using tech to overcome governmental blockages…..In 1957 Paul Robeson was not allowed to travel out of the US because of his work for civil rights…but he still performed a concert to an audience sitting in St Pancras Town Hall in London. He used the then newly laid transatlantic telephone cable.
#hacktivism

In 1957 the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson in 1957 performed a concert to an audience sitting in St Pancras Town Hall in London. Astonishingly, Paul Robeson was in New York at the time, and he was performing live over a transatlantic phone line. Robeson was an outspoken critic of lynching laws and anti-fascism. Because of his support of these causes, he was a victim of early attempts by the US FBI to quash civil rights activ…

If you don’t revise properly…You Shall Not Pass!

If you don't revise properly…You Shall Not Pass!

Sir Ian McKellen came to visit Chew Valley School on 17th October 2014. He had this important messag