By Mark Leiren-Young In yet another sign that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have a very different approach to drugs than the previous government, federal Health Minister Jane Philpott yesterday toured Insite, the long-standing supervised injection site on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and called the experience ‘incredibly moving.’”– CBC News Federal Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo says science will […]
NationBuilder comes to Canada
By Alison@Creekside Ten years ago the Cons bought CIMS, their Constituent Information Management System, and began stuffing it with our phone numbers and adding smiley/frowny faces beside our names and whatever other info they could glean about us. The other parties had their own lesser versions. Most of us first took notice of CIMS when we […]
Are Mealworms the New Maki?
By Drew McLachlan Chowing down on crickets or meal worms may conjure up old reality show episodes, or possibly your gag reflex, but a Toronto-based startup is banking on bugs becoming “the new sushi.” Founded last year by five McGill MBA students, Aspire specializes in entomophagy, the practice of eating insects. The company develops methods […]
Net fatality
A BoB Short A recent U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) proposal that could have a significant impact on net neutrality in Canada as well as the United States has both users and big business up in arms. The proposal, slated for voting later this month, would bolster access to any website willing to pay the […]
Warrantless surveillance comes to your phone
By Alison@Creekside Nine out of 12 big telecoms in Canada deigned to reply to Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart with info about their disclosure of customer data to law enforcement in 2011. Law enforcement agencies made 1,193,630 requests for subscriber data in 2011 Or, one request every 27 seconds Three telecom providers alone disclosed information from 785,000 customer accounts […]
Bit by Bitcoin
A BoB Short The popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin has landed in Canada, and it may soon be making an appearance in your city. The open-source, digital currency has proven popular since its inception in 2009, with proponents often pointing to the fact that it is decentralized, and therefore not controlled by banks as conventional currencies are. […]
CSEC: Hackdom’s Sugar Daddy
By Alison@Creekside Nope, not a photoshop this time. It’s CSEC, the Canadian government’s version of the NSA, presenting a hacker conference for computer security enthusiasts this November in Quebec. [h/t Lux ex Umbra] Events scheduled for Hackfest Strikes Back include: Hide yo Apache, hide yo SSH cause they backdoorin’ everybody out there Bypassing Security Controls with Mobile […]
NSA spying: The Canadian Connection
By Alison@Creekside NYTimes: New iPhone’s Fingerprint Scanner: “Coming just one day after leaked documents suggested that the National Security Agency is able to hack into smartphones, the unveiling of a new iPhone with a built-in fingerprint scanner prompted dismay and mockery…” Business Insider: NSA Slides Refer To iPhone Owners As ‘Zombies’ Cryptome/ Spiegel Online: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone […]
How to evade the British and Yank snoops
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) There’s no way to escape the overseeing PRISM eye of the US electronics intelligence service the NSA, right? Not entirely true. If you use American or British nodes to route your Internet traffic, odds are your every communication will be saved for days at least. Still, you don’t have to […]
Microsoft: Team player
By Alison@Creekside Feel free to drop by this Microsoft ad and give it a thumbs down. “At Microsoft, your privacy is our priority.” Indeed. About that … Guardian: How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism • Outlook.com encryption including Hotmail unlocked even before official launch • Skype worked […]
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