Compliance that doesn’t scale down (Small business in Australia, Edition 2/3)
This is the second of three pieces on the economics of running a small business in Australia. Edition 1 covered…
POWER & SOCIETY · 08-04
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The cost of accepting payments (Small business in Australia, Edition 1/3)
From 1 October 2026 Australian merchants can no longer surcharge eftpos, Mastercard or Visa. What a small business pays to…
POWER & SOCIETY · 08-04
An Introduction to SIGINT
In January 1917, British naval codebreakers working in Room 40 of the Admiralty decoded a telegram from German foreign minister…
POWER & SOCIETY · 08-04
Storage, cloud and AI without the surveillance default (Techno-fascism, Part 5)
This is Part 5 of 5 in the techno-fascism series: Part 1, the machinery of surveillance capitalism, Part 2, private…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-27
Social media and news without the algorithm (Techno-fascism, Part 4)
Part 4 of a five-part series on techno-fascism and the tools that push back against it. Part 1 covered the…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-27
Browsing and search without being the product (Techno-fascism, Part 3)
Part 3 of the techno-fascism series: what browsers and search engines leak by default, how fingerprinting works, and what DNS…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-23
Threat models in private messaging: Signal, SimpleX, Session and Matrix (Techno-fascism, Part 2)
Part 2 of a five-part series on techno-fascism and the tools that push back against it. Part 1 covered the…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-23
The machinery of surveillance capitalism (Techno-fascism, Part 1)
On 4 January 2025, a hacker posted on a Russian cybercrime forum claiming to have pulled 17 terabytes of data…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-22