Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Does technology liberate or enslave? The tension between technology as empowering versus technology as sinister control continues. The web versus the database, liberation or tool of tyranny?

yay for brightnets!

go nomad and take it everywhere

class notes from a UCSD course

an argument for open wireless home networks, by Bruce Schneier

Adobe CS is recording user data - evil and scary

everything on robots.txt

= Leopard's Time Machine for Linux, built on Python and rsync

on social networks and how they ought to work

system logs visualisation, brilliant!

the root of all evil

the magic of logs