The Court of Justice of the European Union has just allowed to censor the web on copyright claims by requiring providers to block the access to specific Domains.

While the copyright lobby claims it’s just a “handful” of domains that they want to get rid of, it’s just a matter of time when they will loosen their definition of handful. This has happened in the past so many times that I cannot comprehend how any court can not see and anticipate this. Want more examples? Dig through the EFF yourself and you will see what I mean.
Free speech has just been destroyed in Europe. Welcome to Hell.

One of the worst things that politics can throw at us is censorship.
TTIP is designed to do just that. Please take up your civil duties and fight it.

Disclaimer: Everybody that ever talked to me about mobile knows that I prefer Android in almost all aspects. I don’t want to use Apple personally but I am grateful that they invented the Appstore, a business model which puts food on my table. I am sad that their “innovation” lately was based around new Icons and slimmer phones instead of ground breaking products like the original iPod and iPhone.

The new iPhone 5S

I did not expect any big changes. Seems like I was wrong. Most of the consumer specs are 1:1 copies of the last iPhone5 which is what I pretty much expected. The things that blew my mind are two: 64 bit (the positive change) and the fingerprint reader (the really bad change).

The latest stories about governments spying on pretty much everybody sparked my interest on privacy and cryptography again. I will be writing a series of blog posts about tools and methods that make life a lot harder for NSA and friends, focusing on easy to use apps and easy to follow tips for everybody (and not just computer science experts). I will not go into much technical detail if it can be avoided (you will not see math at all!).

Problems with cryptography

I’ll start off with a list of problems that I see why cryptography is not used. This list is later used to evaluate the tools and methods that I will suggest.