Had to happen sooner or later, but today the government coalition is having to weather it’s first sleaze storm. Surprisingly, or not, it’s about expenses. The Daily Telegraph have today made revelations about David Laws, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Yeovil, resulting in the Liberal Democrat multi-millionaire pledging to immediately pay [...more]
I’ve spoken in the past about Gordon Brown’s so called Digital Britain, which to summarise briefly is a collection of legislative powers that will be implemented with the intention of reducing file sharing on the internet. Despite the Digital Britain report being authored by Lord Carter it is The Prince of Darkness, Lord Mandelson, that [...more]
More ISP madness and lobby group loving! I’ve just read on TorrentFreak that another UK ISP, Karoo, has been disconnecting users on request of third parties such as the BPI. I’d not heard of Karoo before, but it is owned and operated by Kingston Communications in the Hull area. Kingston is, if I recall, run [...more]
Just found this. It doesn’t sound too good, but perhaps it only applies to O2 Mobile Broadband. I would check their terms and conditions but the site appears to be down at the moment.
If you could get away with committing an offence knowing that from the point of view of the authorities someone else did it, would you? I opened my netbook today and decided to search for wifi access points within the vicinity of my home and discovered a total of 14 unique networks including my own. [...more]
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