If you don’t use Firefox or don’t want to install the addon you can still play the trick on Google. There is a website doing almost the same as Google sharing, it’s called Scroogle. They even have some funny and not so funny cartoons, which can be turned off. The only negative part about it [...]

 

It has been way to long since I last wrote something here. Sorry for that. Some of you might know that I use ixquick instead of the Google search engine, because Google collects all the data they can. I wrote about the problem here. But sometimes you just can’t ignore the Google services; the Ixquick [...]

 

In 1993 the United Nations General Assembly declared May 3rd to be World Press Freedom Day. It exists ever since. I don’t want to go much into detail, because the topic is quite complex, all I want to do is remind you of, is the importance of this topic and that today is the day [...]

 

A friend of mine, Jonathan H. posted an explanation about creative commons on his blog. Creative commons is important for everybody uploading any kind of media to the Internet, so please have a look: http://geronimo89.dk/blog @ Jonathan: thank you for writing this post.

 

In the following speech Jeff Jarvis talks about the paradox of Germans. For him it is strange that Germans on the one hand care deeply about their privacy and on the other hand visiting mixed saunas. Although I do not share most of Jeff”s opinions, I still have great respect for the way he thinks [...]

 

I just read on netzpolitik.org about the WikiLeaks presentation being online. The introduction is German, but the actual presentation is in English. here it is, have fun watching.

 

There are really two common ways of limiting the internet access: Domain Name System (DNS) redirecting and Deep packet inspection (DPI). What is Domain Name System? In order to make it understandable for people, who are not into the whole Internet technology I will ignore irrelevant exceptions in my following explanation. DNS is the method [...]

 

re:publica is a is an international conference that’s all about weblogs, media and the digital society. Since 2007 the re:publica is held once a year in Berlin. This year’s conference was from April 14th to April 16th. I am looking forward to some of the speeches held there, but since they are not online jet, [...]

 

Video: Interview mit Daniel Schmitt von Wikileaks auf der republica 2010 (5:23) Hinweis: Bei dem erwähnten Video handelt es sich um folgendes Video aus dem Irak, dass sehr deutlich den Mord mehrerer Zivilisten durch das US Militär zeigt: LINK

 

“We are a platform that is that is disclosing information, that is in the interest of the general public no matter if this information was to be disclosed or not. We accept classified or restricted material only or material that is otherwise legally threatened in its publication. We have an anonymous save harbor, so we [...]

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