An astounding quote on the Mosquito

Following the update on the Mosquito story, i.e. that it is to be switched off at a shop in Newport after questions were raised about human rights issues, the BBC story ‘Anti-gang noise box switched off’ carries an astounding quote from Compound Security, the manufacturers:

The fight back: Refill ‘er up

Via MAKE – printer cartridge refilling stations are about to become a lot more widespread in major store chains in the US, such as Walgreens and OfficeMax (as opposed to the existing Cartridge World-type refill stores).

Making criminals

An interesting quote for a Friday afternoon, from Ayn Rand’s 1957 Atlas Shrugged:

Telegraph – Safety fear swats store’s Mosquito

From today’s Daily Telegraph: ‘Safety fear swats store’s Mosquito’.
“A supermarket has been ordered to switch off a device aimed at combating anti-social behaviour because of concerns about human rights and health and safety…

Podcast of London Copyfighters’ Brunch

The guys at Meme Therapy – incubating the world’s premature ideas have produced a great podcast of last Sunday’s fascinating London Copyfighters event, with interviews, discussion and some of the speeches from Speakers’ Corner, including my own rather spur-of-the-moment rant (about 25 minutes in) in which I didn’t manage to include the phrase ‘architectures of [...]

Architectures of control that actually endanger life

The fight back: Dongle sharing

Just flicking through last month’s issue of MCAD magazine, I came across an interesting advert from Smart Logic Ltd for the SmarterX range of ‘dongle sharing’ devices.

Self-erasing mp3 player: Don’t give ‘em ideas!

In a comment on a Boing Boing post about RFID ‘viruses’, Ben Giddings makes an interesting aside:

Architectures of Control in ‘Engineering Designer’ magazine

‘Techno world has MPs beat’ – Guardian

Particularly in reference to the ID card issue, but relevant also to the creeping pervasion of deleterious architectures of control and their sanction by governments, a nice quote from a Guardian article: