Category Archives: Tech Bits

Speaking of ways around net censorship…

A bit of muse about what Pirate Bay is doing to keep their bits flowing despite extraordinary pressures on them. Continue reading

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Dear A.P. – Encrypt your telephones.

Looks like it’s time (or past time…) for the Associated Press and any other press agency to move to the world of encrypted and identity masked telephones. Continue reading

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MicroSoft Access Point Sharing

Adventures In Windows Admin leads to the discovery that my laptop can share it’s WiFi internet access as its own Access Point. Yes, Windows 7 can turn your laptop into a WiFi Hotspot and family share point. But in a somewhat geeky command line soft of way… Continue reading

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Dongle Pi

A nice little Raspberry Pi on a dongle solution to some various security and privacy issues, along with configuration notes on how to set one up. Continue reading

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Small group communications w/o Internet

An interesting appliance that creates a wireless ‘hot spot’ for non-internet chat and file sharing in a local area. Continue reading

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