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Using Aktivix VPN service from Microsoft Windows

19-12-2010 14:23

Mitigating ISP surveillance and web monitoring with a VPN

4 minutes to freedom

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How to hide your identity

14-12-2010 12:29

How to hide your identity from the surveillance machine. Please add further suggestions / amendments as I do not profess to be an expert.

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English Defence League Hacked & Member Information Leaked

13-12-2010 17:14

A list showing the full contact details of shoppers and donors who used the far-right English Defence League’s (EDL) clothing website has been published online.

The website was compromised by hackers early on Sunday morning who replaced it with their own page. Almost 350 people who used the website have had their names, addresses and email addresses published online.

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World's smallest solar powered cinema wins award

10-12-2010 10:23

A micro cinema has won the Network Wales Award for best communication project of any organisation from across the country.

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How to join the Anonymous Hackers Payback Operation for beginners

09-12-2010 22:21

An introduction to the Anonymous group currently organizing the attacks against Paypal, Mastercard and other perceived enemies of Wikileaks. Freedom fighters sign up here!

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Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures

09-12-2010 14:05

WASHINGTON – December 7 – The following statement was released today, signed by Daniel Ellsberg, Frank Grevil, Katharine Gun, David MacMichael, Ray McGovern, Craig Murray, Coleen Rowley and Larry Wilkerson; all are associated with Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence.

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News on Coal Use which Deserves Publicity

03-12-2010 10:58

This provides a link to an article which reviews the increasing use of Biomass in UK Electricity Production

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Tech Tools for Activists book published

29-11-2010 15:10

The HacktionLab collective has just published it's first paper output, a 32 page booklet designed to help non-techie activists: Tech Tools for Activists.

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How To Break The Kettle: An Illustrated Scientific Guide

28-11-2010 00:34

Wedges are really a kind of inclined plane. A wedge is two inclined planes back to back against each other. The mechanical advantage you get from a wedge depends on how thick it is. A thick short wedge will split things apart faster, but you'll have to use more force. A thin long wedge will be easier to drive in, but it will take longer to split something. Today we have many different uses for wedges.

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first they came for FITwatch, then

27-11-2010 15:49

Cops making proposals to be able more easily to shut down sites they don't like, without oversight.

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Wikileaks: UK issues DA-Notice as US briefs allies on fresh leak

27-11-2010 09:24

Governments, organisations and media across the world have been put on alert as whistleblowing site Wikileaks looks set to release millions of diplomantic communications. Emily Butselaar reports

As Wikileaks prepares to expose [1] a huge cache of classified diplomatic communications, the US has warned allies that new revelations may lead to public embarrassment. The cables are expected to expose sensitive foreign policy issues including corruption allegations against foreign governments and leaders, and clandestine US support for terrorism. The leak is expected to contain seven times more data than the infamous Iraq War Diaries released earlier this year.

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Domestic extremism: time to start submitting those data protection requests

25-11-2010 14:36

From November 25th it is possible to use the Data Protection Act to discover what information the "domestic extremism" units hold on you.

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Improve the UK Animal Rights Feed

23-11-2010 00:06

The UK animal rights feed has been running since early September and has been going very well

The feed collects news from various websites, twitter accounts, blogs, indymedia (animal lib) and the animal rights calender (see bottom of article for full list).

This information is filtered and combined into a single RSS feed which is automatically updated every half hour and made available to anyone who wants too keep up with news on animal rights across the UK.

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Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Protest

18-11-2010 21:34

Interviews with protestors at the Queens visit to the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre ((Nuclear AMRC) in Rotherham on 18th November 2010.

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Protest at the Queen's visit to the Rotherham Death Park

18-11-2010 15:08

A small group of protestors were joined by a small group of fans at the Queen's opening of the "Factory of the Future", Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Rotherham on 18th November 2010.

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Stuart Parkinson: Arms Conversion for a Low Carbon Economy

18-11-2010 00:01

On 17th November 2010 Stuart Parkinson, executive director of Scientists for Global Responsibility, addressed the Sheffield CND AGM on 'Arms Conversion for a Low Carbon Economy'.

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fitwatch complete archive

16-11-2010 13:51

We compiled an archive of everything we could find of the fitwatch.org.uk site.

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Congratulations. You are using Tor.

14-11-2010 19:48

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy.

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Use HTTPS Everywhere to connect to Indymedia securely by default

14-11-2010 03:25

Link to a website which shows you how to use HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox extension, to connect to Indymedia.org.uk (and others) using the HTTPS protocol by default. This will encrypt your connection so that it can't be snooped on.

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50,000 opposed German nuke waste transportation

11-11-2010 09:34

“The CASTOR consignments stand for everything I hate about this country and this system: police protecting big-corporate interests, democracy ignored, parties that only lie, media that only propagandise instead of reporting independently, inhumane technology, lobby-driven policies.”
The words of one of 50,000 protesters who over the weekend went to the tiny village of Gorleben in central-north Germany, which normally is home to 600 people, to oppose the 12th delivery of nuclear waste containing the radiation equivalent of about 100 Hiroshima bombs.