Category Archives: privacy

free industrial strenght data wiping

December 22, 2006 – 23:07

It’s hard to believe there are still people who would sell or ditch their old hard drive without erasing the data off it first, but apparently there are. A while ago I prepared an old 486dx2 machine for it’s final trip to the recycle centre (at least, I think they recycle old electronic devices that [...]

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googling for porn

January 31, 2006 – 21:07

You probably heard about this by now but the Google subpoena is a real bitch. So the government wants to invade the privacy of every American, and I’m pretty sure non-Americans such as myself as well by getting search query information concerning kiddy porn. I can’t say I don’t like them fighting that smut though, [...]

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lets have some acid

December 13, 2004 – 20:57

I decided to give Acid Xpress a go the other day, to see if that would be a nifty tool in my arsenal of noise generation equipment, and it turns out you can use this piece of software for free, on the condition that you go through a registration process during installation which requires you [...]

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a bit of privacy

August 4, 2004 – 13:49

Registering for forums and other sites is something that is required at most of em by now. It’s a pitty because sometimes you just want to check something, or download something from one of those sites without having to go through yet another registration form, because you simply don’t intend to spend a lot of [...]

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