Last month the Pirate Party Australia, along with hundreds of other organisations and individuals, made a submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s Inquiry into potential reforms of National Security Legislation. I co-authored the Pirate Party Australia submission and wrote around half of it.

When the submissions were published there was ( Read more... )

I strongly encourage signing the petition to the Australian Senate from Pirate Party Australia regarding the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security’s Inquiry into potential reforms of National Security Legislation. Sign this if you can’t make a submission to the inquiry, although I strongly urge all Australians to do so, or if ( Read more... )

I am changing my OpenPGP/GPG key from this one to this one. Both keys are also available here and a proper key transition statement is here.

I have updated all the contact points on this website, but not the legacy site that is still kicking around. I have also signed the SSL statement with the new key that is mentioned in the About page.

It is ( Read more... )

Last week the complete unredacted diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks last year were revealed to the world following a series of events involving WikiLeaks, the Guardian and possibly others. There has been much finger pointing regarding who is to ultimately blame for this, which is essentially pointless. The deed is done and the information ( Read more... )

Recent reports in The Guardian and The Independent, largely overshadowed by current events in Egypt, return to the phone hacking scandal and a renewal of the investigation into illegal activities performed by or on behalf of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World. It is important to note that, with the exception of what apparently happened to Nick ( Read more... )

Recently I have noticed that a number of my friends and acquaintances have had their GMail accounts compromised. While my preferred email address is on my own server, I do have a GMail address too (actually I have a couple, but only one that is really used much) and it has not been compromised. I’ve been asked about it a little bit and I figured ( Read more... )

I just installed the PHP Floating Point DoS Attack Workaround plugin for WordPress, which neutralises a bug in PHP that causes some system types to hang. I strongly urge WordPress users on 32-bit systems to install this patch.

As for all you Drupal users and others in PHP-land, you’ll either need to pester your vendor or wait for the bug to be ( Read more... )

This site can be accessed via a TLS/SSL connection, but the certificate is locally signed.

So what does this mean?

Well, as far as the security of the connection between your computer, gentle reader, and the server is concerned it means that it is just as secure as any connection using a 256-bit AES key. That’s very secure.

It also means that your ( Read more... )