Thanks for visiting our site. It seems a long time ago now when this blog was created on the new and exciting Blogger platform in about 2008. It’s nearly twelve years old now which isn’t long in the normal scheme of things, but makes it something of a veteran on the world wide web. During that time I personally have worked for lots of large IT companies and several even larger pharmaceutical ones. I’ve installed Firewalls, messed up router installations and managed to survive many global IT security rollouts.
This site has rumbled on in the background, sometimes being updated with the latest stories but just as often been neglected. Hopefully you’ll find something here to interest you and if you start to get as paranoid about online privacy (or the lack of it) or as annoyed about being blocked from your favorite websites as I do then try out the Identity Cloaker trial.
Not only will it solve your privacy issues, allow you to access just about all the geolocked websites like the BBC (well all except Netflix!). You’ll also be supporting a cracking little security company who spend all their days making their software more and more secure whilst completely neglecting to market their end product!
Over the last decade the extent at which we’re all being monitored, filtered, redirected and just basically spied on has increased ten fold. Most websites we visit track and analyse our visits and use this information to try and make more money out of us. Even in democratic nations, monitoring is increasing too usually in the name of fighting crime or more specifically terrorism. In the UK and several other Western countries, there plans to implement even more control especially on pornographic material.
While most of our lives move more and more online, this also increases the risk to our privacy. The more information we make available, the more there is to benefit the myriad of organisations and companies who are after our data. When we share data and details over social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram we’re increasing the amount of information that can be harvested about us from other sources too.