A very useful PDF file with information about bypassing Internet censorship in a repressive regime. Countries like China and Iran have restricted Internet and this necessitates a method of bypassing this restriction on free speech and enabling unrestricted Internet access to allow the user to upload photos and video of government abuses. Source: http://www.nartv.org/mirror/circ_guide.pdf.
Some common networking terms and their meanings. IPv4 – IP version 4: This is the current networking standard that defines an IP address with a 32-bit address composed of four octects. IPv6 – IP version 6: A newer standard of IP addressing that will replace the current IPv4. This uses a newer and more efficient … Read more
The Internet makes use of many ports for connectivity, this is a necessary part of the networks that compose the global network and enables all kinds of network protocols to work together. Here are some of the most common ports in use. Echo: 7 – echo is used to test the communication between hosts. Any … Read more
With the NSA monitoring the Internet and usage of the encrypted TOR network rising; the people are waking up to the reality of total government control of the Internet. But the SSL encryption on the Internet that secures communications between a computer user and the server has been broken by the NSA. This means that … Read more
A Liberal National government in Australia would adopt the opt-out UK approach to filtering for all Australians. The policy comes less than 41 hours before polls open for voting in the federal election where the Coalition is currently expected to win. It is also almost a year after the Labour government abandoned its plans for … Read more
The European Commission (EC) and Japan have announced the launch of six joint research projects, supported by £15.3m+ (€18m) in funding, that aim to build networks which are “5000 times faster than today’s average European broadband ISP speed (100Gbps compared to 19.7Mbps)“. Europe and Japan are both planning to deploy 100 Gigabit per second Internet … Read more
The Obama administration have been caught in the PRISM spying scandal. This involves the National Security Agency spying on Americans using their text messages and Internet access records. Considering that the Google Chrome browser is sending information about your browsing history to Google, and the Patriot Act allows the United States government to monitor and … Read more
The new Xbox One Kinect has a camera that can see in the dark and also is listening with the camera even while the device is supposedly powered down; but still plugged in. That is an obvious privacy risk. What if one is cracked into my someone who wants to spy on a family with … Read more
Hack Tuesday April 9 2013: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/daily/hack_tue_2013_4_9.mp3. Listen to this recording of the ABC TripleJ radio show Hack and hear what Malcom Turnbull is planning if the Liberals get into power in 2013. A broadband network using copper wires instead of the Labour proposed fibre to the node that would use a network capable of 100 … Read more
A new zero-day exploit in the wild that targets the Internet Explorer 9.0 and earlier releases is making the rounds. This is another reason to not depend on closed source software if you can help it. I have tried running Windows 8 and then Windows 7 exclusively the last few days and it was not … Read more
The CISPA Bill is a program that will enable more sharing of Internet user`s data to facilitate monitoring of the Internet use of civilians. This under the guise of protecting us from terrorists and keeping suicide bombers off planes. Of course there was the unencrypted data conveniently found in Osama Bin Laden`s hideout, that detailed … Read more
The ASIO spy agency is asking Australian ISPs to log all the data that travels to and fro from a users computer. This would require an astronomical amount of storage space if this is to be taken literally. But they are just interested in fighting terrorism by monitoring all Internet traffic that passes through Australian … Read more
There is anger in Poland over the country signing up to a anti-piracy pact with other nations to suppress Internet freedom. They say this is about piracy, but this is all about taking away our right to freedom of speech which is the main strength of the Internet and taking it away will reduce the … Read more
The future of the Internet is still under threat even though the SOPA Internet censorship bill has been defeated in the Senate, this does not mean that we can afford to relax our guard just yet. Congress could wait for a slow news day and slip something under the radar that is similar to the … Read more
Is this the future of the Internet after the Stop Online Piracy Act comes into force? Users having to purchase a set package that includes access to a selection of websites and a 500 Megabyte cap with 2 Gigabytes added with each recharge. That would not last long if you want to stream television shows … Read more
I am just testing the website again in Internet Explorer 8.0. The drop shadows on the DIV layers does not work, but everything else seems to be all good, IE 8.0 is about the lowest version that will still work with my website, some of my visitors still use Internet Explorer 6.0; that will not … Read more
The future of Internet freedom and freedom of speech in general is under threat after the announcement that Telstra & Optus unveiled plans to roll out Internet filtering systems. of course they say it is to stop child abuse material, but most of that is hidden in the deep web and not even accessible from … Read more
Updating the sources.lst as I write this, it is taking a long time, but I am using the Town Library connection with WIFI and it is only about 64K per second, so updating the aforementioned file with apt-get update takes quite a while to run. I wish Australia could get a super fast broadband system … Read more