Chucks Blog

Gotta love secondary school administration.. often they think they’re top of the world. Heres a case that doesn’t have a chance of making it to the supreme court. Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (link to Boing-Boing article)
Essentially this brings the key fact people forget often back to light: If you did not [...]

Alright, I’ll confess. I do have a Facebook account, even though I am a bit of a privacy nut. However, unlike most users I have employed the privacy settings to protect me from the average data mining theif.
Although it looks like it’s about to get a bit harder for these folks to get the data [...]

SSH has a nifty feature included with it that allows it to act as a SOCKS server. To use it simply try
ssh -D port account@server
And setup your local configuration files to use the server localhost:port as a SOCKS server. Every connection will then be relayed through server, which allows you to bypass filters the local [...]