Barry Stuart Cable

Category: Free as in Freedom

  • Privacy Tools

    Good resource for tools and knowledge to protect your privacy against government surveillance. privacytools.io

  • Documentary on Ross Ulbricht

    Watched this documentary recently on Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road. Deep Web Deep Web – full documentary on YouTube.

  • The Tin Hat

    The Tin Hat is a really interesting website, with lots of tutorials and blog articles regarding privacy and security on the internet. There are some very good articles relating to the Tor and I2P networks. The Tin Hat website – https://thetinhat.com Tor hidden service – qza32xuddl3guikc.onion I2P eepsite – Secure.TheTinHat.i2p

  • A couple of new techie documentaries

    Here are a couple of new documentaries I have watched and recommend. Inside the Dark Web The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin

  • MediaGoblin

    I’ve been having a play with MediaGoblin and this software looks very promising.  If like me you feel uncomfortable with the amount of data you are sharing with 3rd parties e.g. Flickr, Dropbox, YouTube etc. then MediaGoblin like ownCloud could be a way forward. I will admit that installing and getting MediaGoblin working isn’t straight […]

  • Privacy

    I’ve just finished watching a pretty scary documentary called Terms and Conditions May Apply.  It doesn’t necessary tell me something I didn’t already know or at the very least suspected but it still made me feel pretty sick. I had already begun the process of deleting my data from my social networking accounts and closing […]

  • Crypto Nerd’s Imagination

    I though this was worth sharing. Here is the source of this comic http://xkcd.com/538/ Check out the xkcd.com

  • My home server

    Rather than throw out an old computer I’ve decided to put it to some good use.  I’ve turned it into a server.  I’m primarily using it to play around with ownCloud (http://owncloud.org). The specs of the computer are as follows: Compaq Presario SR1915AN AMD Sempron Processor 3400+ 1.8GHZ 80GB 7200 RPM Hard Disk 1GB RAM […]

  • LibreOffice

    Use a free (free as in freedom) office suite i.e. word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database etc.  Create documents using an open standard, the OpenDocument Format (ODF).  Works on multiple operating systems, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, MS Windows. My entire family is using LibreOffice – no MS Office in this house. LibreOffice website Compare LibreOffice […]

  • OpenDocument Format

    No longer is the Office suite the only product that can reliably show the content of your documents. Get rid of all the issues with vendor based formats like .doc, .xls, .wpd and .ppt – thanks to ODF it has never been more easy to write software to produce or consume documents. OpenDocument Format website […]