I like listening to the BBC. Of course there’s the Internet, and NPR often broadcasts BBC’s World Service at night (and increasingly slipping in some BBC coverage during the day time, in the middle of All Things Considered. Truly… strange…) A decade ago, though, I saved up a couple of paychecks and bought a nice […]
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Privacy and living in the world of Blade Runner..
The question is not what you have to hide, after all everyone has something to hide. An affair, a betrayal, a personal matter. Social views, religious views,gender views, sexual views, racial views, political views, all of which may go against the grain of your corporate work culture, or your circle of friends, or people you […]
How They Trace Phone Calls
I wrote this almost a decade ago, on usenet alt.phreaking. I just stumbled across it again, and decided to revise it heavily. It can use further improvements. For one, the advance in Phone Switch technology since the late 90’s includes the massive increase in VOIP (voice over IP) switching, and the forward march in traditional […]
Life, grasp it or it slips… I just found out that fravia+ died..
I just found out that Fjalar Ravia (a man fondly known as Fravia and fravia+ to many on the net) recently died. How I came to know this, and what this means to me, I’ll go into. Recently I have been a busy beaver. Jumped into a new gym routine; an intense Dead lift + […]