Stephen Conroy is probably more out of touch with the internet then most of us imagine; “New” technologies? The first laptop was commercially released in 1975, wireless internet first debuted in 1985, 1983 saw the first mobile phone as we know them released, Myspace has been around since 2003 and the first website appeared after [...]
After citing Swedish law and publicly threatening Stephen Conroy with legal action if he tried to discover Wikileaks’ source for the ACMA blacklist leak yesterday, Wikileaks thrown down the gauntlet by releasing the March 18th, 2009 official ACMA blacklist.
Whirlpool forum member ‘benjee’ accidentally stumbled across 19,000 credit card numbers after receiving a ‘Google alert’ for a name. Before Whirlpool took the thread down citing “being handled by authorities“, ITNews got in contact with benjee and ran with the story.
Just days after I wrote “There are enough people opposed to mandatory filtering that a leak of the list can almost be guaranteed to happen here, if for nothing else then to humiliate the government in retaliation for censoring the internet“, Wikileaks has delivered the current ACMA non-mandatory blacklist up for public scrutiny. Note: The [...]
Melbourne and tremors don’t really belong in the same sentence. Sort of like Melbourne and snow, Melbourne and rain, or Melbourne and reliable public transport. Yet despite this clearly foolproof safeguard Melbourne has experienced two tremors hitting in the mid 4′s in as many weeks. Why is this happening, what can we do to prepare [...]
Any hope of this spectacle going off quietly into the night have been dashed with the contradictory public statements from Pauline Hanson herself and former campaign manager Richard Rae.
I have a confession to make. It’s something that’s been bugging me for just over a month now. I’ve been wanting to bring it up but felt that it was too soon and the nation probably had other things more pressing on it’s mind. I’ve decided enough is enough though and it’s time to share [...]
Update 16th March: Hanson and a former campaign leader have released statements regarding the authenticity of the photos. One claims they’re legit and the other is screaming fake, read about it here. Hanson just can’t seem to stay out of the headlines, she’s like our own political version of Nadya Suleman. Love or hate her [...]
Marnie Pierce, British mother of two, has been thrown in jail after her husband, Ihab El Labban reported her to police for adultery which is illegal in the United Arab Emirates. During a custody battle, El Labban stormed Pierce’s house with police and caught her having tea with a male friend. He accused her of [...]
Forget internet filter trials or worrying about how much of your online freedom Conroy’s filter may or may not take away from you; the fact of the matter is Australian internet filtering is very much in the here and now. ACMA have made it perfectly clear that if you run a website with an .au [...]