The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
After reading Jamie Bartlett's 'The Dark Net', I
wanbted to check out the TOR network for myself. So I downloaded the app onto my
iPad and went blithely on. For those of you not aware of it, over to
Wikipedia:
"Tor is free software for enabling anonymous
communication. The name is an acronym derived from the original software project
name The Onion Router. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide,
volunteer network consisting of more than six thousand relays to conceal a
user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic
analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced
back to the user: this includes "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant
messages, and other communication forms". Tor's use is intended to protect the
personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct
confidential communication by keeping their Internet activities from being
monitored. An extract of a Top Secret appraisal by the National Security Agency
(NSA) characterized Tor as "the King of high-secure, low-latency Internet
anonymity" with "no contenders for the throne in waiting", and the Parliamentary
Office of Science and Technology deemed it, with approximately 2.5 million users
daily "by far the most popular anonymous internet communication
system."
I found 'The Hidden Wiki', and within less than
five minutes I was directed to a UK based website putporting to sell handguns, a
whole plethora of drug markets, although the only one I looked at seemed rather
expensive, and a category of adult websites called 'Hard Candy', which I suspect
are probably illegal pornography, but not being Pete Townshend I did not sully
my hard drive by investigating any further.
I suppose that as an anarchist I am supposed to be
excited at this new electronic wild frontier, but actually it scared the crap
out of me...
Chris Squire, The Fall, Suzanne Vega, Grant Lee
Buffalo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon
Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#137) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has the late Chris Squire of Yes on the front cover together with a series of
tributes to him inside. There are accounts of Suzanne Vega and Grant Lee Buffalo
live, John muses on The Fall, and Jon examines a book about the a bloke who went
to see the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, and spent fifty years cataloguing
British Butterflies, there is Hawkwind news and an important Gong Family update,
Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his
regular column. And there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night
Progressive, and one from those jolly nice chaps at Strange Fruit, and one from
the wonderful Canterbury. There is also a collection of more news, reviews,
views, interviews and spotted quolls with nothing to lose (OK, nothing to do
with small marsupials in a devil may care mood, but I got carried away with
things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part
is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
This issue features:
Chris Squire, Morrissey, The Beatles, Culture
Club, Sir Paul McCartney, Barbara Dickson, Nick Holland, Gilli Smyth, Van
Morrison, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury sans Frontieres,
Bruce Rowland, Val Doonican, Third Ear Band, Arthur Brown, Inner City Unit, Hugh
Hopper, Pete Sears, Captain Beefheart, Brand X, Lee Walker, Grant Lee Phillips,
John Brodie-Good, Suzanne Vega, Gerry Leonard, The Fall, John Haylock, Roy
Weard, Hawkwind, Yes, Steve Howe, U2, Morrissey, Michael Jackson, Sid Vicious,
Nick Cave, Neil Nixon, Virginia Astley, Cnoc An Tursa
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at
www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you
have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly
dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power
chaps, we have to share it!
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spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to
read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more
traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we
all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
(mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But
it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about
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* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to
things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not
responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
guv!
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
old hippy of 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the
Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, puts it all together from a converted
potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with
various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his
lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and
a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the infantile
orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?
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