From 1985 to 1988, the British government attempted to stop people from reading the autobiography Spycatcher, by Peter Wright, a senior intelligence officer with the MI5, the Security Service. The result was pretty much predictable: it was the Streisand effect many years before it became known as the Streisand effect. Which US newspaper will be the first to print a story like the one the Daily Mirror ran at the time, in response to the censorship?
Find the book and read it, it's interesting with plenty of geek material. More than 2 million copies have been sold.
Slightly off-topic: get your hosts file with IP-addresses for each of the WikiLeaks mirrors here:
WikiLeaks hosts file for mirrors
This is a complete list of IP addresses and host names for all WikiLeaks mirrors, in standard hosts file format. You can add the contents of the file to the hosts file already on your computer. The advantage of this is that you are no longer dependant on external DNS service providers in order to access WikiLeaks, as the file provides the necessary domain name to IP address mapping needed to access the sites.
Reverse engineer a simple CPU? That's so elementary.
Indeed it is. And why not emulate it at the bare metal level in JavaScript, while you're at it?
The new card allows German authorities to identify people with speed and accuracy, the government said.
Unfortunately, they will also make perfect bomb triggers, when the target walks by.
An interesting question & answer chat with Julian Assange, who founded WikiLeaks was published (in English) by Dagens Nyheter, the biggest morning newspaper in Sweden, today.
It gives some insight into his thinking as well as the seriousness of their task — two of their contributors have already been assassinated.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.