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Apologies for the outage, which was purely technical and non-sinister and to do with the domain name expiring yesterday, but having to be renewed the Friday before because yesterday was a public holiday in San Francisco. I am dashinng off to Madrid today to give a talk there. Am seething with outrage about Babar Ahmad and at George Osborne; please express some outrage for me on those topics till I get time to do so!!

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  • Komodo

    My impression is that the FBI is happy not to bother too much about the law at all, Craig. Still and all, I think the bigger risk is from the unofficial community : redirects to Russian sites with spyware being prominent. (The only other website hosted by 94.124.88.232 is regarded as deeply suspicious by Malwarebytes, and guess what, its owner has just moved to Russia)

  • Komodo

    DtP –
    Not cavilling, and I see your point, too. But surely, if
    “The enforced rationality” is “that if it saves 1 British life then that’s sufficient.”, then let’s ban motor vehicles tomorrow…

  • harpie

    Let me try that again, for legibiity [sorry]
    [I will place the links in the following comment, so that this comment is not held for moderation-I hope]

    1] In an article called “Video: The Great Extradition Swindle”, Andy Worthington says:

    The Strasbourg court’s bizarre decision is the outcome of immense and completely improper pressure brought to bear by the British government. It has been clearly understood by everyone for most of the last year that if the court failed to deliver the verdict required by the British government, the government would do its utmost to use the court’s ongoing reform process to break its power. The court will now survive to all appearances unscathed, but with its credibility badly undermined. Today’s decision means that, at least in extradition cases, the hitherto eccentric US interpretation of human rights law will displace European values in Strasbourg case-law.
    There is now an urgent need for the British Parliament to re-assert our own values by enacting domestic legislation to prohibit long-term prisoner isolation, and prohibit the transfer of prisoners to countries where they would be at risk of such treatment. [emphasis added]

    2] In a comment on page 12 at the Sadhbh Walshe column, [linked by a commenter above] I [I’m “evenharpier” at the Guardian] show Worthington’s work comparing SuperMax and Guantanamo, and asking if KBR has been imported to West Midlands and Surrey.

    3] And on page 17 of comments at Glenn Greenwald’s recent post about the US presidential debates is a comment where I track the changes in a NYT article about the treatment of Mr. Masri. At first they printed that his lawyer said he had been wakened every hour [what’s called The Frequent Flyer Program at Guantanamo], and that statement is no longer in the article.

  • DtP

    @Komodo – yeah, fair point. I guess there’s the substance of intent to contend with. I do agree with you regarding Baber, I wish we had tried him here and that Alex Carlisle had pulled his finger out or that Labour / Tories had any skill whatsoever in order to fix things rather than just brush it under the carpet and nosh off MI6’s flaccid knobs. I’ve never heard any defence or why intercept evidence can’t be used except the gimps in Vauxhall or Cheltenham would have to do some work for a change. It’s utterly fubar and cases like this will never get any traction because it’s rigged from the start. It’s difficult to trust peacemeal solutions when every bugger is charging £500 per hour and are only intent on procrastinating the situation – Hillsbrough being an incredible case in point, why do something now that we can toss off for 20 years? Maybe that’s what we’re left to expect, nothing for a few decades and then some crap solution caveated to kingdom come. Hmm…

  • John Goss

    I have to say Clark I don’t have the expertise to move from Windows OS. I’m sure all my proprietary accounts, Facebook, Soundcloud, Twitter, Youtube and the like are open to compromise from the authorities should they choose. And though I am proud to be English, British and a resident of planet Earth, I sometimes think a pursuit of justice and truth may make all of us vulnerable. One of the things that bothered me while this site was down was how the free transfer of information not in the public domain, like the Gould, Fox, Werritty meetings, Anna Ardin’s entrapment of Julian Assange, and the Gottfrid Swartholm mistreatment by Sweden of his Pirate Bay and Wikileaks connections.

    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/gottfrid-svartholm-warg-charged-again-in-sweden/

    Pirate Bay was one of the sites mentioned in the third of your links. I’ve never used it but I think we might all benefit from some protected operating systems and webs that don’t gather IP addresses and give protection to individuals. The problem as I see it are that most people are like me and this technology is beyond us. What it needs is for developers to create a system suitable for novices but that gets away from the ‘community effort’ you mention.

  • ben

    oh major phew! seen a few Jedi sites go down recently, thought you may have been gotten to, so i uploaded a bunch of your articles to pastebin to store them lol.
    babar ahmed and talha ahsan bring to light the lunacy of our one sided extradition treaty with the US. look forward to reading your views on it.

  • Colin Carr

    John Goss at 1:59pm

    You could start by changing your search engine from Google to Duckduckgo.
    Next, change away from Internet Explorer to Firefox for web browsing, and from Outlook to Thunderbird for e-mail. (Firefox & Thunderbird are available for Windows and Linux).
    Also download a live CD or DVD image of one of the popular Linux distributions. You burn the download onto a CD or DVD and can run it as a demo. It does not alter anything on your hard drive, though running off the CD is a lot slower than running an installed version.
    Most ‘distros’ come with a selection of applications like the Libre Office suite – spreadsheet, database, word processor etc. You can also download extra applications from the internet. Linux used to be very ‘techie’ but is now user friendly even if you can’t write code etc. Among the most popular sistros at the moment are Mint and Ubuntu.
    Oh yes, they tend to run better than Windows on older, slower machines

  • King of Nothing

    It’s a relief to hear that the outage was only technical. I was beginning to worry.

  • Komodo

    Another interweb hint: if you use a mobile dongle, your ISP gives you a different IP address, probably nowhere near your real location, every time you connect. A bit harder to track. On a landline/fibre, use a proxy server such as

    http://www.hidemyass.com/

    which disguises your IP as one of theirs.

    If you’re running Linux, you can spoof your IP yourself without too much trouble, and I seem to remember that there’s a Windows .exe available for nowt that does the same trick for Gates devotees.

  • Lemon Puffs

    Re: Gideon Osborne cutting £10bn from welfare.

    Why is every media outlet reporting that this Zionist shit-slag and lover of all things Israel has ‘promised’ to pick the pockets of the poorest? A ‘promise’ is usually something positive and nice. Back in the day the media would have used word like “slashes and “threatens” to describe Gideons financial violence against the weakest in society.

    The media is clearly talking directly to the Banker clique that this country stupidly and moronically voted for. I’m now hearing perfectly sane people say they want Boris Johnson to be P.M. as if his policies will be anything other than the exact same. He is just another member of the same Bullingdon mafia that is wrecking this country so their mates in the City can benefit from back-handers and the rest as they sell this country down the river.

  • Mary

    I have had three workmen working here recently replacing a gas boiler and increasing the loft insulation. All live up north, have wives and children and live in digs locally Mon – Fri as they cannot find work where they live. It does not seem right that this is happening to the detriment of family life and the men’s health as I sensed they are all under a time pressure. They are on contract to the supplier ie self employed which presumably suits their employer as there is no pension and NI for them to contribute to.

    Is the above standard practice now?

  • Mary

    O/T Another TCNMIU Surrey police discovered a taser stun gun at the Al Hilli house yesterday!

  • Komodo

    I’m now hearing ONCE perfectly sane people say they want Boris Johnson to be P.M.
    FIFY.

  • Lemon Puffs

    “If you’re running Linux, you can spoof your IP yourself without too much trouble, and I seem to remember that there’s a Windows .exe available for nowt that does the same trick for Gates devotees.”

    Yes, and immediately bring yourself to the notice of your ISP and law enforcement. I have not seen a router in the last 5 years that didn’t drop spoofed packets. The only people doing spoofing these days are those involved in DOS attacks that have hacked a router. Also, If you were to spoof your address and request a web page and your ISP allowed those packets out of it’s network the request would appear with the spoofed IP address but the response packets would not reach a ‘real’ host so what’s the point?

  • Lemon Puffs

    “Is the above standard practice now?”

    What flogging your guts out for a subsistence wage and a quality of life not seen since the Victorian era? You bet. Have you heard about “Zero hour” contracts yet? A fantastic wheeze to give the unemployed a job without actually providing them with work or a wage. This is not even Orwellian – it is pure Dadaism.

  • Phil

    @John Goss

    I think that you, Clark and Colin Carr are talking related but distinct issues.

    Clark is talking about web site censorship. i.e. How web sites, such as this, are under threat from being made difficult to access. I think his point is that the current threat, DNS removal, is easy for us to get around with a little preparation.

    Colin is describing steps to ween yourself off corporate software. This has to be a good thing for political reasons. It may also make corporate data gathering about you a little less easy.

    You seemed concerned about the state watching you. Here the line is very much blurred with corporate data. For example the MPS have had a direct terminal link to BT records for the last 10 years. The PND has records on a quarter of the population. The MPS have purchased face and pattern recognition systems and admit to data warehousing. They have micro drones in the sky and vans to intercept your wireless chatter outside your house. The MPS even operate an illegal fleet of military grade surveillance aircraft in Farnborough.

    And that’s just some police activities in the public domain. Now’s not the time to speculate about what else they do. Nor GCHQ, nor Chicksands.

    Geeks can take steps to obfuscate their online activities but to sustain this without a slip is almost inhuman.

    Basically they have got your number mate.

  • technicolour

    It’s always been that way, Mary: it’s just been hidden. Friends of mine who are plasterers and builders have been having to move around the country for decades for work. It’s partly why their car insurance is sky-high.

  • wendy

    theresa may was across the media beaming and proclaiming her victory .. for justice and due process ..
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    disturbing amount of life size cut out posters be it a policeman telling us that we’re being watched to nurses advising us to act in a certain way .. its a weird control mechanism and seems to be effective.
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    increased military presence on our streets, reduction in police on the beat but an increase in paramilitary police, cctv, virtual id card/database, vehicle number plate recognition .. oyster style travel cards ..
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    plenty of laws to close down protest, freedom of movement, curfews, detention without trial, trial without evidence/charges, .. secret trials,
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    use of extremists such as the edl .. as agent provocateurs
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    and holding centers across the country ..
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    is something about to happen ?

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