How mass surveillance is re-shaping society
Mar 27, 2020
What is ‘social cooling’ and should we be worried about it? If you’ve ever caught an episode of Survivor or Big Brother, you’d quickly realise that the label ‘reality television’, well kinda unrealistic. Yes, contestants are often left to their own devices and many of their responses to the social set-ups are authentic(ish) – but it takes an extreme event (such as a man falling into the fire and losing layers of skin from his hands) for the pretenses created by a filmed production to disap...
Please, can someone lock the back door?
Mar 13, 2020
Security and connectivity should never be mutually exclusive Let’s say you were deep into the process of purchasing your first house. Both you and your partner are all abuzz with anticipation, imagining all of the memories to come between its freshly painted walls. Your home will be a safe, secure place for the children you plan to raise, the pets you plan to adopt and the life you plan to live. Then, just as you’re about to sign the papers, the real estate agent informs you of a new federal ...
The United States: a privacy timeline
Mar 08, 2020
How Australia’s big brother transformed into Big Brother Tracking the erosion of personal privacy in the United States isn’t as difficult as you’d think. While we could go back decades, let’s simply start at the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and move forward through time.
Big Tech are in our heads and we’re allowing them to stay
Feb 29, 2020
Just like ‘sheep’ or ‘sheeple’ the term ‘user’ is used to herd, control and insult you.
Apple puts government interests before user security
Feb 21, 2020
The tech giant’s true face has been revealed and it’s not pretty. We’re only finding out now, but roughly two years ago, Apple performed a sudden 180-degree turn on its plans to fully encrypt iCloud backups, in order to give government entities easier access to user data.
ATO and Defence throwing cash out the wrong Windows
Feb 02, 2020
Australian agencies continue to invest in irrelevant technologies Remember LaserDiscs? That oversized frisbee of a disc that was set to take over A/V in the home during the 1980s, but was a bit too cumbersome and is now way too dated in both audio and visual quality to make any kind of a resurgence? Yes, that one. If anyone is still spending their weekends tracking down the last remaining LaserDisc copy of Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, then the Australian government would love to give...
“App-ocalypse” Now
Jan 26, 2020
53 organisations are trying to end Android’s pre-installed mobile applications.
Australia and the social credit ‘experiment’
Jan 11, 2020
Having “nothing to hide” can still cost you – eventually Friends, Australians, Countrymen, lend me your fears. And beware of doing anything wrong, it might ruin your life.
Window-dressing the backdoor
Dec 29, 2019
Government’s half-baked cyber security crackdown tiptoes in the right direction.
Shedding light on the darknet
Dec 29, 2019
The internet’s underbelly is much more than just fire and brimstone.