The NSA gets its wings clipped

I am sure that we will all be far more unsafe as a consequence!

Rand Paul must be "Public Enemy #1" - it is a good job that he is a Republican or there would be charges of "left-wing" liberalism wanting an open-door to the "commies" and terrorists.

Ross William Ulbricht gets his just deserts

But will it stop "copy-cat" sites being setup to sell illegal drugs online?

What's all the fuss about referrer spam?

Sure it can skew your Analytics reports but you can just ignore it!

If you publish your reports or logs, then more fool you. 

Theresa May and Encryption

Now that the Conservatives have a clearer mandate, having divested themselves of the measure of rationality of the Liberal Democrats, can now pass all sorts of legislation to prevent the use of "secure communication".

While it is not clear what the Daily Mail's undercover investigation revealed to Scotland Yard, Theresa seeing this as the "seriousness of the threat we face from Isil".

The BBC suggest that "secure communications" made using a Smartphone app were used to organize the "Syria Trip" thwarted a British schoolgirl's plan to travel to Syria to join Islamic State.

The app or apk was not specified, but this was all the consequence of developments by "Civil Libertarians" creating such apps. 

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