Monday, January 27, 2014

Thanks to NSA even Angry Birds are watching you.

"The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users' private information across the internet, according to top secret documents."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data?CMP=twt_gu

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Survivors of the Farmakonisi mass drowning talk to reporters - Greece. W...



"Amnesty International expresses its profound concerns over the loss of life of migrants and refugees including several small children near the island of Farmakonisi on 20 January 2014. In the early hours of Monday, 20 January 2014, a fishing boat carrying 28 migrants and refugees including many small children capsized and sank near the island of Farmakonisi. The group consisted of 25 Afghans including ten children aged between one and nine years old and three Syrians. "

Amnesty International

www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR25/002/2014/en/60426d...

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Farmakonisi: The dead deserve respect, the living deserve the truth.

"Amnesty International expresses its profound concerns over the loss of life of migrants and refugees including several small children near the island of Farmakonisi on 20 January 2014. In the early hours of Monday, 20 January 2014, a fishing boat carrying 28 migrants and refugees including many small children capsized and sank near the island of Farmakonisi. The group consisted of 25 Afghans including ten children aged between one and nine years old and three Syrians. "

Amnesty International

www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR25/002/2014/en/60426d...

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Inequality. Do the math: 85=3,500,000,000

"The extent to which so much global wealth has become corralled by a virtual handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a new report from Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people across the globe share a combined wealth of £1tn, as much as the poorest 3.5 billion of the world's population."

www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest...

Monday, January 06, 2014

POUSTI RIOT - THE POSTER

POUSTI RIOT - THE POSTER by Teacher Dude's BBQ

The #Poustiriot hash tag appeared on Twitter, a mash of the Russian punk band, Pussy Riot and the Greek derogatory slang term "pousti" used for gay men. The aim was to reclaim the term, in much the same way the term "queer" was reclaimed by American gay activists.

Thursday, January 02, 2014

If you are not at the table, you are on the menu - T-shirt

New Year's Eve - Thessaloniki, Greece

NSA + Apple = BFF

NSA + Apple = BFF by Teacher Dude's BBQ
NSA + Apple = BFF, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.
"Documents released Monday showed the NSA had worked on software that would allow it to remotely retrieve virtually all the information on an iPhone including text messages, photos, contacts, location, voice mail and live calls.

The software, DropoutJeep, was first disclosed by Der Spiegel and security researcher Jacob Appelbaum. The NSA slides are dated 2008, a year after the first iPhone was launched."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/31/apple-nsa-back...

Just another Washington press conference. REPEAT AFTER ME: "The NSA isonly collecting metadata"