privacy

Trust & deepfakes

Posted on March 24, 2022

Information without trust is worthless. Deepfakes are easy to produce and increasingly difficult to identify. Innocuous examples like @deeptomcruise on TikTok demonstrate how far the technology has come. This is not Tom Cruise. A poorly implemented however far more dangerous example was the recent deepfake of Ukrainian President Zelensky. Tools... [Read More]
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The Dangers of Turnkey Data Science

Posted on June 17, 2020

Data science affects our lives from trivial restaurant recommendations to life changing loan risk predictions. Data science has the ability to improve lives, but like any tool, when misused or misunderstood, it can cause damage. The Dark Decade of Data Science During the 2010s, some of the greatest minds in... [Read More]
Tags: ai privacy

$1 a Month Personal VPN

Posted on March 29, 2019

Russia has recently threatened to block popular VPN services unless they join a state IT system that contains a registry of banned websites¹. In response, here is a quick tutorial on how to setup a personal VPN for $1 a month. Personal VPNs have advantages over shared VPN services because... [Read More]
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Facehoo!

Posted on April 28, 2012

Facebook and Yahoo are working together to liberate your personal information. Be careful before reading “10 Signs Your Relationship is Over” if you’re still in a relationship and it might be a good idea to log out of Facebook before visiting your favourite sites 😉 [Read More]
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Digital breakup

Posted on April 7, 2012

My girl friend and I recently broke up. In the last few days I’ve been organising moving out, finding a new place, redirecting mail, terminating joint bank accounts etc. But the tech era has introduced a new dimension to breaking up. Dee and I lived together and shared our online... [Read More]
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Wikileaks and thoughts

Posted on December 23, 2010

This year has been the deadliest for coalition forces in Afghanistan. Ten Australian soldiers and over 700 coalition forces have died here. While I’ve been here Wikileaks has been releasing more government documents and this hasn’t gone down well here. It has the possibility of making life more dangerous for... [Read More]
Tags: afghanistan politics privacy

The proposed Burqa ban

Posted on May 15, 2010

The whole burqa debate has got me worried. What affect will a ban on burqas have on my freedom of fancy dress or my freedom of motorbike helmet wearing? This has all kicked off again after burqa clad robbers held up a post office in France. There have been hundreds... [Read More]
Tags: politics religion privacy