UK

Breaking the Internet won’t stop terrorism

Governments want to intercept all terrorist communication but… they can’t. You can talk online with perfect secrecy if you know what you’re doing. Their solution to this is banning strong encryption. Most people have probably switched off but this will affect you (and won’t stop terrorists).

1973 British Rail Space Train

A patent from 1973 for a “controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction”, UFO-like train has recently been uncovered and published on the BBC web site. The same article surfaced after some BBC Radio 2 research a while back that I found through google.

UK Anti-Piracy “Virtually Impossible” due to GPL

Trading Standards seem to suggest they can’t do their job if people go around giving software away.

UK Government to make Vista EVEN worse

This week the British government in their infinite wisdom have started eyeing up the upcoming Windows Vista. More specifically, the encryption systems that are used in it.