So about a week ago I found this very good online show called Hak5. Basicly it is a show for us tech geeks. On Hak5s website you can read the following
 
"Put together by a band of IT ninjas, security professionals and hardcore gamers, Hak5 isn't your typical tech show. We take on hacking in the old-school sense, covering everything from network security, open source and forensics, to DIY modding and the homebrew scene. Then we wrap it all up with a healthy dose of cocktails and geek comedy. Damn the warranties, it's time to Trust your Technolust."
Source
 
Hack5 has been going on since 2005 and I can really recomend it and I would recomend starting to watch from the beginning. All the episodes are availiable on youtube however since youtube didnt really have nice quality videos back in 2005 I would recommend downloading the avi/m4 files from here instead
 
I probably shoul mention that I have only watched 2 and a half season but so far it is really good.
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2012-02-18 @ 01:37 Swedish Time by Popeen
 

This Saturday (Feb 11) there will be protests against ACTA in over 200 cities, unfortunately I will not be able to go on any of them, but that doesn't mean that I cant help in the protests and so can you. The non-profit organization Fight For The Future that was a strong backbone in the protests against SOPA and PIPA have set up a webpage where you can easily email every MEP with a known email address. So if you haven't already be sure to join the fight for freedoom at killacta.org

If you tried to visit Popeen.com in the last couple of minutes the chances are pretty good that you were greeted with a 500 error message (server not configured correctly). This was because I just transferred the site to a new server based a little closer to me, well actually very close since it is standing in my closet
 
Well anyway the error message was only shown for about 3 minutes until I figured out that there was an .htaccess file that screwed everything up. The reason I decided to host the page myself was because the webhost I used started having micro downtimes, only a couple of minutes but a little to often. This should be better now that it is only sharing the server with 2 other websites (PTJwebben.se and mrPopeen.com).
 
Hopefully everything on the page should be working as usual but if you find something that seems to be down or buggy please report it to me by mail.

Today it hit me that I had not checked the statistics of PopStream since Megavideo went offline. So I did and I must say I was very surprised that the day of the takedown I had quite a lot more visitors then usual. I had expected the number of visitors to drop directly. It didn't last long thou, the day after the takedown the number of visitors decreased quite a lot and have remained low, not that I find this strange given that the site is pretty much useless in its current state.
 
In the future I will probably start adding other sites to bypass but right now I have some more important projects that I am working on, one of which will probably be released this weekend so be sure to check back soon.

This is acctually quite unbelivable. Jan 18 something very special happened on the net. It was the largest online protest in history with millions of protesters and what happens the day after, well I tell you what. The FBI shuts down MegaUpload, one of the largest filesharing sites on the net. Keep in mind that I say filesharing, not illegal filesharing. They also arrested four people. This is unacceptable. MegaUpload is following the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and is not breaking any laws. Demand Progress, one of the biggest sites that helped organise the protest against SOPA has set up a page where you can send Obama and the lawmakers an email and let them know what you think about this. Please do. You can find the page here.
 
As you can probably gather from this post I am pretty upset right now partly because I lost a big part of my backups but mostly because this is just so wrong. Anyway I should probably not be writting anything more right now or i might end up breaking my keyboard ;)
 
Oh maybe I should tell you that Anonymous don't seem to be so happy about this either and according to a blog commonly used by Anonymous [link] they have launched their largest attack ever and taken down several sites connected to the government and the Media Industry
 
If you want to know more about this raid you should read this:
TorrentFreak - MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested
TorrentFreak - Anonymous retaliates
The New York Times - 7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site

As you may have noticed there was a strike going on on the internet yesterday. Many sites including all of mine (except for PTJwebben.se) went black as a protest against SOPA. The idea was to show ordinary people and the US congress how it could look if SOPA passes. This Post is a prewritten post that will be automatically published when my site goes online again so I don't know how it went but I really hope that it went well and that congress realize what will happen if they let SOPA pass.
 
If you didn't try to visit any of my sites during the strike but want to see what it looked like (it is actually pretty cool) you can check it out here.
 
The design for my SOPA page I found on the website of the the Swedish Pirate Party which also went black. It seems to have been created by the guy(s) over at zachstronaut.com and the original is available here. Written: 2012-01-18 @ 08:30AM