Tag Archives: World Wide Web

The Global Village Just Got Smaller in 1993

World Wide Web Launched (April 30, 1993) It started out as a way to link computers the world over. What it became is a weapon of war against the world. I’m not alone in thinking this: my children avoid social … Continue reading

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It Started Out as Just Some “Harmless Fun”*

Anonymous Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an “anarchic”, digitized “global brain” or … Continue reading

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Is This Just Another Way to Hijack Wealth?

Cryptocurrency I’ve written about this previously, in a post about the Number of the Beast (in April 2018): at the time, I was still hooked on the idea that we would need a computer chip in or on our body … Continue reading

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Someone Must be Desperate to Hack My Email Account

Package Delivery Notification In the past three days, I have had more than a dozen spam emails purporting to be from different sources with an identical company image and notification number. I know DHL is an international service, but really? … Continue reading

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Are We Painting Ourselves into a Corner?

Intolerance (1916) OK. This is a loaded question: should we tolerate differences in society, or should we draw a line in the sand and dare others to cross it at their peril? That seems to be the ethos of this … Continue reading

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