Thomas Nybergh’s pages

Eilen keskusteltiin mediassa Danske Bankin omistukseen siirtyneen Sampo Pankin uuden verkkosivuston ja pankkijärjestelmän toimimattomuudesta ja mahdollisesta turvattomuudesta. Tietokone-lehden blogissa ja sen kommentialueesta löytyy kiinnostavia mielipiteitä ja uutta tietoa aiheesta. Suomen perustuslain vastaisen sensuurijärjestelmän kriitikkona tunnetun Matti Nikin eli muzzyn mielestä Sampo Pankin verkkopankki-istunnoissa käytetty Java-crapletti ei ole asiallinen, eikä välttämättä kovin turvallinen ratkaisu, ja näennäistietoturva [...]

Reading lists of new .fi domains granted by Ficora is a terrible waste of time for persons whose psyches don’t sort the notion of monitoring Finnish Internet businesses into some internal “fun” folder. I happen to enjoy following stuff like this, which is why this RSS feed with daily updates on new .fi domain registrations [...]

A seemingly never ending series of absurd statements from officials continued yesterday, as Detective Chief Inspector Lars Henriksson from the National Bureau of Investigation commented the ongoing debate over Internet censorship in Finland. He threatened maintainers of mirrors of the wrongfully censored anti-censorship site lapsiporno.info (mirror) with possible legal actions. The censorship is made possible [...]

The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation maintains a secret list of “child pornography” sites. Some major Finnish ISPs, although currently not required by law to do so, do block access to sites on this list. The blocking, which is performed on the DNS level, has been criticized, especially since lapsiporno.info (“childporn.info”), a site discussing the [...]

Digiexpo (Helsinki), a yearly consumer electronics trade fair aimed towards consumers, was still, without any doubt complete idiocy when I went to check it out last weekend. I don’t know how failtastic electronics centered trade shows to which non-journalists are allowed are in other parts of the world, but this was sloppy enough to make [...]