Some people noticed that I haven’t posted anything for some time on Facebook. And that is correct, I basically stopped using Facebook. Main reason for this that Facebook becomes more and more a privacy thread. If not by Facebook self, then it is by people with bad intentions. For the second time now in the…
Category: Privacy
The slight madness of cards…
Recently I have bought a metal case to keep all kind of cards that I carry around daily around with me. First this case protects the cards from damage (some cards are easily damaged). But what is maybe even more important is that this case makes the RFID readers (and equipment alike) cannot access the…
Life is there to… secure data
Lately I have been pondering a lot about the data on my computers. There is a lot of private and more of less confidential information on those, specially on the one that I use the most. All kind of documents with letters that I sent to people and companies… salary and tax forms… banking software……
A black day for the Internet…
I just read that two big Dutch Internet-provider, XS4ALL and Ziggo, are ordered by a judge to block the site of The Pirate Bay. This is in my opinion very bad. Why bad? No, not because the content that you can get at The Pirate Bay. To be honest, I never even connected to their…
Privacy again
It kinda funny, after reading a newspaper this morning I decided that it was about time to write an article on privacy again… and just I noticed that Patrick did the same on his weblog yesterday. This morning I read that the government has far reaching plans to gain control on the information flow on…
This they promised never to do…
They promised us over and over again never to use the Dutch security number (“SOFI Number”) to connect all kind of databases together. What did they do? They renamed the “SOFI Number” it to “BSN Number” and do with that what they said they never would do. Today I needed to have some x-rays made….
Something to think about
Today in another discussion about privacy and security (with many “I don’t have anything to hide” folks) I did read something that said it all for me… When they came for the communists, I didn’t say anything… I am not a communist. When they came for the Union people, I didn’t say anything… I am…
Encryption, part II
Encrypting again… Like I use to say, when you do something do it good. And when you find something to improve, do it. For mail I can use GnuPG to sign and/or encrypt my mail. And this is working very well. Marion and I use it all the time. We talk often per mail about…
A Web of Trust
Sometimes the current gets passed by the past… Last week something like that happened again. At work we had our weekly team-meeting. We always tell what we are busy with so everyone has an idea what all is going on. My colleague Anitha told she was working on an encryption matter that involved key servers….