Civil liberties in the UK
I’ve read a couple of interesting articles related to civil liberties in the UK and the general direction the UK could be heading:
- Is Britain on the slippery slope to dictatorship?
- CCTV doesn’t keep us safe, yet the cameras are everywhere
- CCTV cameras ‘taught to listen’
Reading the list of warning signs in the first article proved very interesting. The last article also raises a couple of issues. Not only does the technology allow the state to use (fallible) AI to monitor what you say and use it to determine how much of a threat you are but it also would be very easy to distract the camera if you wanted to commit an actual offence.
New car
It’s not every day you have to write the insurance details of the guy who hit the back of you on the back of your invoice from the garage which has the same date on it…
Hello again
Welcome to the new nermal.org.
A few things have happened which prompted this change.
Firstly, a server failure and old backups (ahem) meant getting the site back up again would have involved quite a bit of hassle. Sites like xeroxblog.com will reappear in due course and I will port certain popular content over to the new site (like my integrated wifi laptop hack).
Secondly, and mainly, a lot of content on nermal.org was written quite a while ago and as such is no longer relevant and only serves as an audit trail of what I’ve done over the past 5 years.
In the future I’ll probably write more about what’s going on in the world and projects I’m working on rather than things that I do. Whether anyone reads it is another matter :)