Cav's Place

Since I mentioned my ISP issues and the fact that I want to stay with a LAN instead of being switched over to a major “proper” ISP, I thought this would be a good opportunity to explain how this actually works here in Romania, starting from the beginning. Don’t treat this as an exhaustive or […]

The problems I recently mentioned were caused by a faulty BitDefender update reminded me of a debate that, while definitely being tackled plenty of times by plenty of people ever since patches and updates became such a frequent occurrence, never reached a conclusion. I’m referring to whether updates, particularly those that fix existing problems, should […]

The “Copyright Alert System”, otherwise known as the “six strikes” policy, is about to be launched by media companies and ISPs operating in the United States. That’s not exactly news and certainly no surprise, as the ISPs from there are more than happy to spy on their customers and take action as commanded by the […]

Even if these news pieces are about a week old now, I just noticed them yesterday, when I checked my e-mail and saw them linked to in the Access newsletter, and they’re definitely worth drawing more attention to. If such things are allowed to slip past, we’re not even talking about trading privacy for security […]

This week is one of action against CISPA, the new “worse than SOPA” bill that’s being pushed through the United States Congress as yet another part of a global effort by governments and large corporations to control the Internet. Perhaps most notably, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has set up a page that lists the organizations […]