I signed up for KickStarter and didn’t even end up using it. Because I was lazy/human, I used a password I’d used on some other websites when creating my account there. Kickstart hacked, personal info obtained. So now I’ve had to go to a bunch of other websites and change
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Blog Action Day 2013 – Human Rights #BAD13
On Friday I was invited to talk about blogging, on Regina’s community radio station CJTR. The show was Human Rights Radio by Jim and Gord, and we spent the hour going over what a blog is, why it’s useful to have one, and how it could be used to promote
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Passwords Holding the Web Together
I noticed another person with a CIBC 2-factor authentication fob on their key chain last week. It displays a seemingly random number that actually only a special server knows, so if a password is stolen, so too must the fob containing the random number code that changes every minute. Without
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Friday Night Hardware Hacking
Last night I fixed a Vista laptop (It wouldn’t finish booting into Windows normally because I’d installed another hard drive, and ran ClamAV which possibly changed a file it was depending on after I removed the other hard drive. I ran startup repair, and then the system restore option, and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Does Government Have a Sense of Humour?
No. I never realized the famous voice that said, “You’ve Got Mail” on AOL, was actually some guy from the NSA. Do you ever feel like no one is listening to you? Just pick up a phone, & dial. The NSA is there no matter what number you call. You
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Government Can Watch You Have Sex
Here’s how to let the NSA know when you’re having sex: 1.) Buy a Nike (or related) workout monitor, or keep your (smart) cell phone (or tablet) on your person or the soft surface where you are engaged in intercourse. 2.) Ensure the workout arm band or cell phone is
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Prepared for Exposure
More details are out on PRISM, Tempora, and other illegal spying schemes by the NSA and friendly intelligence agencies, apparently even in Germany. The NSA even has a special department for such cooperation, the Foreign Affairs Directorate, he says. He also exposes a noteworthy detail about how government decision-makers are
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: T-Rex Doesn’t Taste Like Bacon
I couldn’t keep a straight face over this one. The T-Rex Burger is offensive, but the Baconator isn’t? “She said the fast-food restaurant “strives to deliver a positive dining experience for our customers. Our goal is to provide options to our customers so they can make options that meet their
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Greenwald on CNBC
Strong congressional oversight means asking direct questions & getting straight answers. 1.usa.gov/1a0EIY3— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) June 11, 2013 Encrypt your shit: Spooky reading after #Snowden: Julian #Assange's call to take up arms against the surveillance state | Cypherpunks cryptome.org/2012/12/assang…— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 11, 2013 The world is not sliding, but
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: NSA Watching the Innocent
Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State) has been collecting domestic Americans’ phone and Internet records since at least
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: High School Isn’t What It Used To Be
Imagine the embarrassment of being a teenager again, except now your source of torment is not limited to forced school interaction with ruthless bullies, but now occurs at home and around the WWW too. Sexual attitudes need to quickly change, and treatment of bullies needs to radically evolve if we’re
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Good Ol’ American Sex Scandal
The American media is very primitive, which is why it avoids complex and important issues, and instead resorts to tabloid topics like sex scandals. While their country is embroiled in an unprovoked war in Iraq, occupies Afghanistan (along with Canada), and itches to bomb Iran for oil, they’re worried more about where the wiener Petraeus […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Geist on Copyright vs. Internet
An interesting, long lecture from Canadian copyright expert Michael Geist, given at the U of Sask. recently.
ADDED: Here’s a little on open government, as presented at the U of Regina
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Evade Censorship of Pirate Bay Block
Children learn how to use computers and work around restrictions by experimentation and reading. So too must adults when they are confronted with restrictions. It’s a good idea to learn how to evade censorship before the flow of information is shut off, otherwise working around the problem becomes much more
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bit Torrent Links
I’m downloading the latest Ubuntu Linux OS to try it out. It’s a free alternative to Windows, and comes in very handy if Windows ever quits working (for one of its various usual reasons). To download quickly, safely, and without errors, even if there’s an interruption, Bit Torrent provides those
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cats
It would appear from this graph that as the cat threat makes it into the news more, there are fewer people[?] searching the word “cat” on the Internet. Curious. I’m questioning my theory that the Internet runs on cat power. Perhaps the AI autocorrection robots will overtake their cuteness and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon and VikiLeaks
Surprisingly, the Canadian government is dealing with other scandals it’s instigated. Vikileaks was the subject again today, where the Speaker ruled that Anonymous (an unrepresented collective of hackers and political activists) was found to have breached the privledge of Minister Toews who’s created the monster of a bill, C-30 (to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Digital Star Credit Card Scam
I’m a recent victim of Credit Card Crime. I’m actually kind of amused/intrigued by it. My Visa was used by criminals to send ~$75 to “Digital Star” in the UK. Fraudulent charges appeared first after Feb. 3. Check your Visa, doesn’t matter which bank. The charges were made by phone
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Child Predator Tax
Look for the latest charge to appear soon on your Bell, Rogers, Telus, (or MTS, or SaskTel) bill by next year when Vic Toews Bill C-30 comes into effect. It may not be labeled as such, but you can think of the price increase as the “Child Predator Tax”. The
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Don’t Toews Me Bro! – Harper’s NCC Letter
Read the First Part, if you want. This following letter may be the most hilarious thing the Vic Toews Internet Spying Bill scandal has produced. Stephen Harper, the 2001 President of the NCC, wrote supporters the following: “The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.” Please excuse my language,but
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