Last week, my attention was drawn to the fact that people in Bulgaria were protesting on the streets against the appointment of Delyan Peevski as the chief of Bulgaria’s National Security Agency. Peevsky controls the larger part of Bulgaria’s media, has no prior experience with national security, and has also been linked to organised crime. What’s happening in Bulgaria isn’t disconnected, isolated or irrelevant to other European countries. Just a…
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… Jonathan Let the record show that Mike Freer MP (Finchley and Golders Green) never bothered to reply to my letter. No surprise really….
It’s now clear that the government wants to control people’s use of the Internet, ostensibly on behalf of the media industry, but more likely in the longer term because (to paraphrase William Burroughs) control always needs more control. For a while now I’ve been thinking whether it might be time to tunnel my Internet traffic over a VPN to somewhere that’s not on my ISP’s network. That way, I absolve my ISP from having to monitor that traffic (be…
… eikoku kopistropi Can I infringe your copyright and use this letter also? Jonathan No infringement necessary: in a rare demonstration of orderly rights management, I hereby grant you non-exclusive use of the the letter in full together with any derivative works, and without attribution. I suppose I should also disclaim any and all liability too. This hereby constitutes the entire agreement in all jurisdictions worldwide….