Friday 29 February 2008

Wikileaks -the spy who reported me

There is a new website that has been causing several governments around the world major stress. Wikileaks as it is commnly known, is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of "confidential" corporate and governmental documents. Using Mediawiki software special care is taken to preserve the anonymity and tracebility of its contributers. The website was created in December 2006 by a Sweden based internet service provider compan. Since then its database of leaked documents has grown to over 1.2 million. Some its most notorious being the Guantanamo Bay Report and on 31 August 2007, The Guardian newspaper featured on its front page a story about corruption by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel Arap Moi. They claim their source of the information was Wikileaks on The looting of Kenya under President Moi.
Several governaments have tried to draw the blinds to their citizens for example the Chinense goverenment has tried desperate;y to censor every URL with the word "wikileaks" in it. Another website Wikileaks.org contains a series of articles against Wikilinks and outlines several problems with the tell tale website.

Friday 15 February 2008

Tescopoly

Supermarket giants are to examined by the Competition Comission. The big, centralised logistical operations of the supermarkets are driving the homogenisation of business, shopping, eating, farming, food, the landscape, the environment and our daily lives. In the process, Britain is being sucked into a vortex of US-style, chain-store-led, clone retailing, both in towns and in soulless "big-box" out-of-town shopping parks - what they call in the US, with its associated suburban sprawl, the "dead zone". According to the competition comission. It is said that customer intelligience is the secret behind Tesco's success. With the use of Dunhumby, a marketing data specialist of which tesco owns 83%, However such success can suffocate the other supermarkets competing in the market, argues Andrew Simms.

Friday 8 February 2008

Identity cards: Keeping an eye on us?

The proposed introduction of the National Identity Card scheme has triggered a variety of responses from the public. Particularly NO21D , raised a lot of speculation whether its just another third eye of the government. Britian's National Surveillance society comprises several methos of surveillance which already includes:4.2m CCTV cameras, 300 CCTV appearances a day,Reg plate recognition cameras,Shop RFID tags,Mobile phone triangulation,Store loyalty cards,Credit card transactions,London Oyster cards,Satellites to name a few. Go to surveillance to find out more about how we are being watched.
According to the home office identity and passport division , the new identity card scheme brings many benefits, including increased protection against identity theft or fraud. Howeverthere there are hundreds of thousands of people will refuse to sign up to the UK Government's planned identity register, according to just-published research. Around eight per cent of those surveyed said they would refuse to sign up to the database even if they are
fined. Another group youth against ID

Friday 1 February 2008

Eyeore World

For all you sad donkey fanatics out there go to eyeore to find out more about the most popular animated donkey in the world!!