Resisting Data Retention Laws
Background information about Germany’s recent proposal for a watered down version of the European Data Retention Directive consisting of 7 days worth of IP-to-account-holder mapping logs.
Archive of entries posted on January 2011
It is official! Germany’s FDP is Dying!
A variation of “Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying”, applied to the German liberal democratic party FDP, after Federal Justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (a.k.a. “Ben Schnali”) sold out by giving up her staunch opposition to EU-style data retention laws.
Ali Reza Pahlavi Dies From Depression
On January 4th 2011, Alireza Pahlavi, the younger son of the late Shah of Iran, took his life in his home in Boston. At first, I couldn’t believe it was suicide, until the Pahlavi family confirmed that he suffered from depression and that he shot himself dead. 2011 starts with sad news indeed.