Saturday, June 28, 2014

Unprecedented internet attack

This morning I was posting an article to the Church and State website when the most unexpected and incredible thing happened: I lost access to Church and State and other sites I was using whilst remaining connected to the rest of the internet. The site I was using for my photos and captions (Bustle), the site I have an account with so I can upload photos and videos to my blogs (TinyPic), the site of my web hosting service provider (SiteGround), the site where I am publishing an ebook (Amazon's Kindle)... all gone! I made this video scarcely believing what I was witnessing:



I then made a second video with a voice over. At the end of the clip it is clear that I had access to this blog, but all the graphics were gone because TinyPic had been taken out:



My broadband provider is British Telecom (BT) and I can't stop thinking about Edward Snowden's revelation that Telecoms, internet providers, encryption and internet security companies are not only cooperating with the NSA and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) on a daily basis, but they are providing them with back doors into supposedly secure software. There is no other explanation for what I experienced: GCHQ has access to BT software and they are free to do what they want with no accountability.

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet



It also so happens that according to BT's website, our property is the ONLY building on the entire street that is not eligible for fibre optic broadband (see Declan's latest email to our chairman in my blog of 19 June, "Now it's Newham Council, Thames Water, British Gas and British Telecom making our case for help and support from the Mayor of London's Greater London Authority"). What good luck!

Declan writes to the Minister of State for Energy for an itemised bill from British Gas

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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Newham Council: Falsification of Declan's application for Housing Benefit by doubling our N4CM salaries

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Single Homeless Project (SHP): Declan forced to turn to the Information Commissioner after Newham Council falsifies information on his claim for Housing Benefit by doubling our N4CM salaries

"You can't stare down a spy agency without being prepared to burn your life to the ground over the smallest grain of truth, because truth is the only thing they are afraid of. Truth means accountability, and accountability terrifies those who have gone beyond what is necessary."

- Edward Snowden
US intelligence whistleblower

By recorded delivery on 19 March 2014 (87 days ago):

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Newham Council: Letter before claim for Judicial Review

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Supported Housing! Now Declan has to deal with Newham Council and Thames Water, after we have had to spend 5 days without water and 28 days without gas

"You can't stare down a spy agency without being prepared to burn your life to the ground over the smallest grain of truth, because truth is the only thing they are afraid of. Truth means accountability, and accountability terrifies those who have gone beyond what is necessary."

- Edward Snowden
US intelligence whistleblower

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More about this strangest of court orders in another blog:
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Monday, June 09, 2014

Middle Aged and in Fear of the Police

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Thursday, June 05, 2014

Flat: still no gas and we are eating off plastic plates

As I said in the previous blog, although we moved into a Family Mosaic Housing Association (Rough Sleepers Initiative) flat on 15 May, it seems to me that we are not supposed to have a flat at all. We now have water but still no gas. The flat itself came with absolutely nothing save a fridge and cooker, and we have had to buy everything, including bed, curtain tracks and shelves.





The bit of money we had put aside to pay back a loan is now gone and we are being forced to use plastic plates... frankly, I can't see what kind of rough sleepers initiative this is!

More about this strangest of court orders in another blog:

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