Month: September 2013

Bunny-earing the 17th most powerful politician on the planet and not letting the faintest hint of a smile slip through. The man is a legend.
via Facebook http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/17/manu-tuilagi-bunny-ears-david-cameron

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“Bale has now earned more than Barack Obama and David Cameron’s annual wages combined.”
via Facebook http://whatbaleearns.co.uk/

Academic freedom vs. the surveillance state. Sadly we know who the winner will be.
via Facebook http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/nsa-matthew-green-takedown-blog-post-johns-hopkins

For those who use webmail you can use GPG to encrypt the text of your email on your computer and then copy the encrypted text into the compose screen for the webmail. When you receive encrypted email you can copy the text into GPG and then it will decrypt it:
https://securityinabox.org/en/gpg4usb_portable
via Facebook https://securityinabox.org/en/gpg4usb_portable

Those of you who use Outlook or similar for their email should look into switching to Thunderbird and integrating GPG into that with Enigmail: https://securityinabox.org/en/thuderbird_encryption
via Facebook https://securityinabox.org/en/thuderbird_encryption

I have memories of attaching PGP signatures to my emails in undergrad. No one knew what the hell they were, and as no one used PGP themselves I couldn’t encrypt anything anyways. Perhaps now people will start to take a bigger interest in this and start using encryption software like GPG (a free, open source version of PGP). Why make it easy for these largely unaccountable agencies to snoop your stuff?
via Facebook http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security