Privacy Roundup #0053 • December 2010
WikiLeaks turned December into a fight over who controls your data, while breaches, tracking apps and new browser defences kept the pressure on everyone else.
Privacy
Blog
Monthly update #0248 • December 2010
Monthly update 248 • December 2010 • 2010-12-01 - 2010-12-31
Monthly Updates
Reflecting on the year 2010
Reflection on the year 2010, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Eurobloat #0007 • November 2010
The month Brussels passed the hat round for Ireland, lost a court case to its own farmers, launched a diplomatic corps nobody voted for, and decided what it really needed was a tax of its very own.
Eurobloat
Merry Christmas
Christmas now speaks to me as a young adult. The birth of Jesus inspires daily living.
Christianity
De Cock en het lijk aan de kerkmuur by A.C. Baantjer
The body of a tramp is found against a church wall, but a doctor finds he was murdered in an unusual way, and the dead man turns out to be a rich baron.
Books
Monthly update #0247 • November 2010
Monthly update 247 • November 2010 • 2010-11-01 - 2010-11-30
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0052 • November 2010
November 2010 was dominated by the WikiLeaks Cablegate disclosures, Facebook's push into email, a TSA body scanner revolt, and Europe's hardening line on Google's Street View data grab.
Privacy
Worth Dying For by Lee Child
Worth Dying For picks up after 61 Hours, with an injured Reacher in Nebraska confronting a family-run cartel trafficking humans.
Books
Eurobloat #0006 • October 2010
The month two leaders carved up the Lisbon Treaty over a seaside lunch, the Parliament voted itself a bigger allowance and floated its own taxes, and Brussels decided that cloned cows and refillable burdens needed yet more rules.
Eurobloat
Lucky Luke versus the Pinkertons by Daniel Pennac
Set under President Lincoln, Lucky Luke crosses swords with Allan Pinkerton, the ambitious detective who fancies himself the marshal's successor.
Books
Useful macOS defaults: NSGlobalDomain
Handy defaults write commands for NSGlobalDomain, the global settings domain on macOS.
Mac
Monthly update #0246 • October 2010
Monthly update 246 • October 2010 • 2010-10-01 - 2010-10-31
Monthly Updates
What are InstallerDiagnostics and InstallerProgress?
If you see InstallerDiagnostics or InstallerProgress on your Mac, here is what these installer processes do.
Mac
De Cock en de stervende wandelaar by A.C. Baantjer
A student found dead in a police cell was put there to sleep off the drink, but the post-mortem shows he was poisoned, and De Cock must find out who killed him.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0051 • October 2010
October 2010 was dominated by Google's admission that its Street View cars had grabbed emails and passwords, by leaky social apps handing user identifiers to advertisers, and by Firesheep laying bare the perils of unencrypted web sessions.
Privacy
What is eapolcfg_auth?
If you see eapolcfg_auth on your Mac, here is what this network authentication process does.
Mac
Eurobloat #0005 • September 2010
The month Brussels gave itself three brand-new financial regulators, scolded Paris over its borders, signed a returns deal with Pakistan, and switched off your 75-watt bulb.
Eurobloat
Privacy Roundup #0050 • September 2010
September 2010 saw location and behavioural tracking dominate the privacy agenda, as Google's chief courted controversy, the ACS:Law breach exposed thousands of file-sharers, and governments on both sides of the Atlantic pushed for wiretaps, identity numbers, and internet blacklists.
Privacy
De Cock en de romance in moord by A.C. Baantjer
A well-liked nurse is murdered and a young burglar is the obvious suspect. De Cock knows the burglar well and does not believe the simple story.
Books
Monthly update #0245 • September 2010
Monthly update 245 • September 2010 • 2010-09-01 - 2010-09-30
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0004 • August 2010
The month Brussels handed your bank records to Washington, polled itself into believing everyone wanted more Brussels, and discovered that its open borders only work until a member state actually uses them.
Eurobloat
What is RemoteDesktop.PrivilegeProxy?
If you see RemoteDesktop.PrivilegeProxy running on your Mac, here is what this remote management process does.
Mac
The A-Team
The A-Team (2010), directed by Joe Carnahan, is an action film based on the 1980s television series. Liam Neeson plays Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, the leader of a four-man Special Forces unit framed for a crime they did not commit and forced to clear their names while on the run.
Movies
De Cock en de zorgvuldige moordenaar by A.C. Baantjer
In a dark, narrow Amsterdam alley the body of a young woman is found in a fur coat. De Cock and Vledder face a case that seems impossible to crack.
Books