Seasteading on the cheap

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9134444/Ramshackle-structure-a-hazard

6 Sept 2013

"A ramshackle structure surreptitiously put up below the high-tide mark inside Nelson's Boulder Bank is a navigational hazard and must come down, harbourmaster Dave Duncan says"


http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9760171/Boulder-Bank-shack-looks-ship-shape

25 Feb 2014

"The tin shack illegally constructed on the Boulder Bank last year has become a houseboat."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/9766598/Rebels-houseboat-beats-bureaucracy

26 Feb 2014

"Nelson's rebel Boulder Bank's boatbuilder seems to have got away with thumbing his nose at officialdom - at least temporarily.
 
Harbourmaster Dave Duncan confirmed today that the ramshackle structure the irascible old salt has built is now a houseboat and so is able to be moored in Nelson Haven."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9943789/Owner-told-to-remove-houseboat

15 Apr 2014

"Nelson Haven's houseboat builder has three weeks before the city council will confiscate his "structure".

In an Environment Court judgment yesterday, owner and creator Paul Jepson has been given three weeks to remove his houseboat and all remnants otherwise the Nelson City Council will legitimately confiscate it."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9965969/Boulder-Bank-dweller-moves-houseboat

"Nelson's defiant Boulder Bank houseboat builder has been on the move again, his ramshackle erection towed up the Haven to a new spot yesterday"


http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9992525/Life-goes-on-for-Boulder-Bank-boatbuilder

 30 Apr 2014

"Nelson’s maverick houseboat builder is showing a philosophical bent, painting ‘‘Life will go on long after money’’ on the outer wall of his condemned floating home."

Digital Spying

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/30013026/fbi-seizes-all-tormail-data-to-catch-hackers

FBI seizes all Tormail data to catch hackers

28/01/2014
"If you had any faith left in anonymous email services, now would be the time to let that go.

New court documents show that in chasing down associates of Freedom Hosting, the FBI managed to download the entire email database of TorMail."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/30012952/spies-use-smartphone-apps-to-track-people

Spies use smartphone apps to track people

28/01/2014
"Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds and a host of other apps installed on smartphones across the globe."


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11211356

Yahoo users' webcam privacy breached by British spies - Guardian

28 Feb 2014

"Britain's Guardian newspaper says that the UK's signals intelligence branch is stealing screenshots from hundreds of thousands of Yahoo users' webcam videos, including a massive haul of intimate photographs."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/30019895/webcam-spies-get-an-eyeful-of-nudity

28 Feb 2014

"Britain’s top spy agency has been literally peeking in on private webcam use and discovering a great deal of “undesirable nudity”, the Guardian reports.

It says the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had been randomly snatching images off millions of webcam users between 2008 and 2010."