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Fuck it. Delete everything. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846496

That's why I've switched to Ubuntu Touch.

I feel that if the problem is political, then the solution is surely political as well. We need to get behind parties that protect our Internet freedom. Voting for your local Pirat…

Solved it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game)

I'm just wondering, in light of all the NSA/PRISM revelations, why there aren't cryptoparties sprining up all over the US and Europe. If any one knows of any in the UK, I'd be happ…

I deleted all my accounts - FB, G+, Dropbox. I even took android off my phone. http://www.battle-school.co.uk/Blog/2013/06/08/its-our-own-f... I know they have my data still, but a…

Another service I get to quit. Soon they'll be nothing left.

Delete your Google account and make the NSA sad.

I'd just like to point out that the issues here are not clear cut. Teaching students to hide their activities from the authorities also enables them to hide their activities from p…

I'm going to teach about HTTPS (It's already on the GCSE syllabus), but teaching TOR might be an issue. Giving students the skills to access the deepweb (Silk Road for instance) mi…

I like the idea of teaching GPG as I can fit that into a general scheme on cryptography. There are problems with one of your suggestions however. If I teach students how to use a V…

I am a teacher of Computing. I'm seeing plenty of stories and comments on HN with regard to how we can better protect out own privacy, and plenty of retorts explaining that the ave…

Here's what I did. http://www.battle-school.co.uk/Blog/2013/06/08/its-our-own-f... Got rid of every cloud based service I use.

Read Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Pharma-companies-mislead-patient...

I'm sure all of this will die down in a day or two and HN will return to links to GitHub and stories about VCs. This only happens once in awhile, the last time being when Aaron Swa…

Same for me.

I argued something very similar in my blog post here http://www.battle-school.co.uk/Blog/2013/01/14/the-second-am... That was following the suicide of Aaron Swartz, which is also t…