Sunday, August 20, 2006

Blocked!

This is the message I received early morning on 19 August 2006 when trying to access my email account on Yahoo!...

Looks like we have been taken back a few steps into the "stone age" once again as far as Internet access is concerned.

I understand the threat to security and the passing of information over secured and unsecured networks around the camp site.

I also undertsand the logic behind misappropriation and misuse of government computer time. But lets face facts here - chances are very slim that any harm could ever come from checking your web email from Yahoo!, Gmail or Hotmail accounts. The lines are secured - there is anti-spyware, virus protection and firewalls in place, and yet there still is a collective raising of the "black curtain" that prohibits us from accessing our daily emails in the comfort of the office and away from other prying eyes...

It's just a small gripe of mine, but one that I fully understand. I am most certain that I have fans of this particular blog all over the France, Germany and maybe even in China too. I am almost certain that every email and telephone conversation is "intercepted" in one form or another and deciphered over uncoded text channels and screened for information. The spy game went "hi-tech" a few years ago, and really there is no such thing as a fully encrypted or safe transmission if the information originates from an electronic source such as a computer, cell-phone or hand-held radio.

Anyway, it will do me no good to sit her an bemoan my fate. What is done is done and there is nary a thing I can do to reverse the situation at hand. I will come to accept it as a minor setback and adapt to the situation that has been set before me.

I will accept it as is - I didn't say I would like it, but I will accept it never the less...

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