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Ingrid Burrington
Personal blog · lifewinning.compoliticsculture
Ingrid Burrington writes lifewinning, a personal blog at lifewinning.com about politics and culture. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Ingrid Burrington's posts cover surveillance and submarine cable taps. HN readers link her Submarine Cable Taps piece and its GitHub source as background to discussions of UK and transatlantic cable interception.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The internet home of Ingrid Burrington
Most-linked posts?
- /submarine-cable-taps/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-17
What Hacker News says?
Technically this law covers logging at the ISP level for UK DSL and cable customers. However in reality, the UK is tapping all undersea cables coming into the UK (so basically almost all transatlantic ones), and logging everything. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secre... . This is done under the Tempora program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora . So any connections into the UK are also b…
Comment linking /submarine-cable-taps/
on “Repeal the New Surveillance Laws (Investigatory Powers Act)”Submitted Networks of New York: An Internet Infrastructure Field Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelated: Submarine Cable Taps http://lifewinning.com/submarine-cable-taps/ (Source: https://github.com/lifewinning/submarine-cable-taps )
Comment linking /submarine-cable-taps/
on “Submarine Cable Map”Submitted You Get What You Measure as a story · 1 points
HN discussion