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Hacking wireless networks. How to get access to secure networks, and how to see what others are doing on their wireless networks. Comments Arun 18 Jan 2006 4:56 am: Anand, can you recommend a few good podcasts you listen to? S Anand 20 Jan 2006 12:01 pm: I don’t listen to podcasts, I’m afraid! Trains are too noisy, don’t like using headphones at office, and prefer watching movies at home. So effectively no place for podcasts :-) Arun 20 Jan 2006 3:09 pm: Oh..ok..Somehow I thought you had made some post about listening to podcasts on trains sometime ago. Guess it must have been some other blog. Or I must have been dreaming :-) S Anand 20 Jan 2006 6:32 pm: No, you’re right. That was in July, when I was commuting OVER the ground, where there’s less noise. Now I commute UNDERground, and can’t hear anything, so I’d given up soon after I started.

Finding subversives using Amazon wishlists.

It’s incredible what RFID and GPS are being used to track: cars, trucks, drug bottles, passports, driver’s licenses, ID cards, loyalty cards, luggage, rifles, casino chips, shopping carts, soda cans, newspapers, razor blades, clothing, books, tyres, etc. What’s even more interesting (scary?) is when it’s used to track kids, students, teens, girlfriends, employees, patients and criminals. Comments S Anand 17 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: I use a domain hosting service that uses hidden frames to point to my Geocities site. Know of any better (cheaper) ones? TOPFRAME 17 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: why do you have to keep the URL at “http://www.s-anand.net” when I follow a link from your page? It’s very irritating actually.

How the FBI hounded Bobby Fischer via Pathologically Polymathic

Wired tells you how to disappear. Online and offline.

An interesting response to FBI’s demand to hand over login and password data.

A good report on the knee-jerk reactions to the WTC attack.

Unfortunate, but among the early hits of the attack are privacy and free speech.

Big Brother took a little longer than 1984, but by 2001, it has arrived. Even if you didn’t upload an copyrighted file, your ISP can shut you down. Oh, they can monitor what you’re doing too – literally, by face. And imprison you without trial. Better read up your “copy rights”.

CNet argues that on the Internet (in the US), you have just about no civil rights. Among other things, your employer can monitor your web surfing and e-mail – even at home.