For quite some time, the issue of whether or not cryptography should be subjected to governmental control was very hot. A little over a year ago I wrote a research paper defending the side of privacy activists who claim that its usage should be unrestricted.

I shared their view until very recently when I read about a new computer virus, Gpcode, which uses RSA to encrypt a victim’s hard drive and demand ransom for data on it. [...]

According to this article, the Internet as we know it will come to an end in a couple of years because all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will agree to introduce a new billing system that will look like the system used today by most cable TV companies. The system will divide all websites into packages. Before accessing a website, users will have to subscribe to the package that particular website belongs to. The change is due to come about in 2012. In case you haven’t figured it out so far, all this is one huge pile of BS. [...]

I spent the last couple of days in Belgrade where I got firsthand experience on the current political crisis in Serbia. If I needed to sum it all up in a sentence, it would be: the situation is grim. [...]

I just stumbled upon a post that was written by Mr. Mladen Tosic, a final year doctoral candidate at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. I was surprised by his views of the “Kosovo is Serbia” protests. [...]

Nowadays, Serbia is split due to Kosovo’s independence. Many people have asked me what I think about it, and many were surprised by my answer — I don’t have an opinion. I do, however, have one about the protest organized by Serb radicals in downtown Belgrade, after the United States recognized independent Kosovo. According to [...]