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An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT _________________________________________ SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS ASSESSMENT STOA AN APPRAISAL OF TECHNOLOGIES OF POLITICAL CONTROL Working document (Consultation...

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Get Chipped

Links to companies and articles trying to persuade you to get a microchip implanted and the reasons why they imply you – not they – will benefit. Suggest your own link on the comments form below. Not...

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Blocking Ads and Trackers

At the skankworks.net we take active measures to prevent advertising and tracking on our personal computers. All web access passes through a Squid caching proxy into which we have hooked the Squirm...

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Website Review: LinkedIn

There are two golden rules that every online computer user has to follow: The first rule of going online is never give out your password. The second rule of going online is never give out your...

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Website Review: How Low Can You Go?

Leo Tolstoy (left) wrote a story called How Much Land Does a Man Need? Upon inadvertently navigating to this particularly shabby data-harvesting site I ask myself not how much data might a company...

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More Than Metadata

The following is an article published in print media on 22 November 1998. The skankworks.net is republishing it in an exclusive online edition today with the kind permission of the original author in...

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Escape From Googleworld

Not showing on YouTube! “Like Soylent Green on a USB Stick!” – Rat ‘n’ Tomatoes “You gotta drop acid before you see this.” – Rolling Stein “Makes the Matrix look lame. OK, even lamer. If that is...

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The Sugarcoated Coup with Love Bombs

The elected President and high-ranking members of the government “arrested” and taken to military prison at gunpoint. Journalists rounded up and TV stations taken off the air. Armed troops swarming...

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The Self-Driving Flying Googlecar

Coming Soon The Self-Driving Flying Googlecar Featuring:- Remote operation from any supported device. Can be operated while watching TV on google glass. Constantly monitors customer behavior to ensure...

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Incompetent and Incomprehensible Censorship

One of the problems with so many micro-publishing platforms is the lack of any kind of consistency in censorship policy. This is to be expected, of course, and is preferable, in spite of its faults, to...

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Tor Network Compromised

Three intertwined stories have emerged in recent months concerning significant busts, if not mass-arrests, down under on the Internet’s hidden side, aka Tor – the anonymity network. Tor has become the...

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Special Forces Feline Destroys Catcam

When we moved to our new data-centre there was an automatic light in the garden, triggered by body-heat to light-up for thirty-seconds. It was lighting up rather a lot and the wife, that’s Mrs...

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Blocking Add This

#tracking #privacy Continue reading →

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The Art of Skype

There’s millions of articles about interview techniques, usally written by people whose linkedin profiles reveal them to have had no more than two or three jobs, gained after apparantly hundreds of...

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Facebook Mediation Plan

How do you like the new “features” facebook are planning? Before posting pictures you might be asked “Are you sure you want your boss and your mother to see this?”. The ultimate goal, apparantly, is...

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5 Reasons Cops Should Not Wear Body Cameras

Tweet 1 – Everything you say will be taken down and used against you. Even what you say before you are read your rights. In the initial roll-out some police departments and lower courts may temporarily...

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Charlie says the events in Paris were not a false flag

Charlie Hebdo false flag conspiracy theory debunked to the back and to the left Continue reading →

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Xbox Player Causes Chaos with Plane Prank

It's been five hours after his tweeted threats. Two airliners have made emergency landings and been evacuated, several F-16s have been scrambled, and a couple of bomb squads called into action. One...

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Outed As Russian Spies

Herr Skank's professional work would certainly be of value to the Russian Federation and its intelligence services. -- Andrew Aaron Weisburd Continue reading →

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Ashley Madison Profile Captions

The 'Profile Caption' is a tweet-style one-liner that users enter to describe themselves. We've made a collection of some of the more intriguing ones. Continue reading →

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