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. 

tempusfugit.ca is my main website

This blog is just a sideline and only gets updated when I am bored.

Unlike my website that gets updated on a daily basis

ISSWorld Conferences

ISS - Intelligence Support Systems for Lawful Interception

Today I saw a visit to my website from someone that seemed to be interested in Vupen. They landed on my page on ISSWorld Spnsors.

VUPEN were mentioned in an article by Glen Greenwald on the relationship between hackers and government agencies on his website The Intercept.

Vupen are a French security company that were cited as selling information that they find during their surveillance activities to Law Enforcement agencies. However, they claim not to share this information unless the countries and government agencies are "trusted".