Smári McCarthy`s blagoblag on Yaxic.org

I like Tor, but it’s way too slow. Possibly this is a local phenomena. If you have  public IP address or access to the port forwarding controls on your router (which is growing increasingly rare I’m afraid), please consider setting up a Tor relay. If you don’t want your IP to show up on the outside, set up to be a middleman only. There’s instructions on the site. K. Thx.

If you know me, you know I don’t like locks. I’m not a big fan of privacy and would very much like to live in a world where I don’t need to protect it, from others, or from myself. But the world isn’t a nice place, thanks in no small way to the governments that claim the right to run it, and now the British Home Office is going to make it a far worse place, as they plan to create a ‘Big brother’ database for phones calls, emails and web use.

From the article:

The Government wants to create the system to fight terrorism and crime. The police and security services believe it will make it easier to access important data as communications become more complex.

[…]

The security services and police would then be able to access records for any individual over the previous 12 months by gaining permission through the courts.

So I’m going to bury my disgust of locks and strengthen my need for privacy. Last week I started using PGP again, and have started to channel some of my browsing and the bulk of my instant messaging through TOR. I suggest that others do the same.

My public PGP key is available for download (MIT’s Public Key Server, it’s slow, be patient). The fingerprint is C8F9 EBDA 2167 CC5F 4D2B EDA1 F5C2 529F C903 BEF1.