![]() ![]() (yes, shit was a carefully chosen and perfectly descriptive word) ![]() Those of us older than 30 still remember an internet which was full of animated ads for shit we had no interest in. Have any sites you go to regularly and find yourself already logged in? Or forms that fill in some of your information for you? cookies are necessary for useful things too. Seriously? People are going to stick up for that damned popup?!?!įirst. Posted in Current Events, News, Security Hacks Tagged censorship, France, malware, spyware Post navigation We find it very sad to see in any case, because France on the whole isn’t that kind of place. We have little confidence in the wisdom of the EU parliament in Brussels when it comes to ill-thought-out laws though, so we hope this doesn’t portend a future dark day for all Europeans. We’d expect those European countries with less liberty-focused governments to enthusiastically jump on the bandwagon, and we’d also expect the European hacker community to respond with a plethora of ways for their French cousins to evade the snooping eyes of Paris. ![]() It’s likely that if they push this law through it will cause significant consternation over the rest of the European continent. Perhaps most surprisingly in a European country whose people have an often-fractious relationship with their government, very few French citizens seem to be aware of it or what it means. We’re sure that most of our readers will understand the implications of this, but for anyone not versed in online privacy and censorship this is a level of intrusion not even attempted by China in its state surveillance programme. ![]() It flew under our radar so we’re grateful to for bringing it to our attention, and it concerns a proposal to force browser vendors to incorporate French government censorship and spyware software in their products. Over the years we’ve covered a lot of attempts by relatively clueless governments and politicians to enact think-of-the-children internet censorship or surveillance legislation, but there’s a law from France in the works which we think has the potential to be one of the most sinister we’ve seen yet. ![]()
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