Category Archives: Surveillance
Creeping Towards a State of Surveillance
An announcement for my forthcoming talk entitled “Creeping Towards a State of Surveillance.” In the talk I’ll be providing an introduction to the gravity and nuances of surveillance legislation and disclosing some of the ‘tricks’ that are used to acquire considerable amounts of personal information by exploiting citizens’ ignorance of contemporary policing activities. Continue reading
Vancouver’s Human Flesh Search Engine
The actions taken to identify, name, and shame alleged rioters is the beginning of a long slide towards a state of mind and looseness of ethics that have been proven to cause harm abroad: I see no reason, based on those experiences, why we should import known, failed, modes of citizen surveillance and investigation. Continue reading
Released: Literature Review of Deep Packet Inspection
The abstract for my recently completed literature review of deep packet inspection, as well as a link to download the .pdf version of the review. Continue reading
Security, Hierarchy, and Networked Governance
The capacity for the Internet to route around damage and censorship is dependent on there being multiple pathways for data to be routed. What happens when there are incredibly few pathways, and when many of the existing paths contain hidden traps that compromise communications security and privacy? Continue reading
