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Cake day: June 22nd, 2025

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  • “Many of these free VPNs are riddled with issues,” said Daniel Card, a cyber-security expert with the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).

    “Some act as traffic brokers for data harvesting firms, others are so poorly built they expose users to attacks.”

    He told the BBC despite posing a range of potential privacy risks, such apps “end up in the hands of kids trying to watch age-restricted content”, or adults “trying to get round blocks”.

    Ah yes, there it is: won’t anyone think of the children. I expected that argument higher up in the article.















  • Currently reading: James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes. A funny collection of stories from his childhood, an enjoyable read. I’d recommend it if you’re looking for something light and funny.

    Before this, I gave up on the book All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai, after about a hundred pages. I just couldn’t get into it, the story kept halting in favor of flashbacks and setting the MC’s backstory. I hate stories not starting soon enough with the actual story. Unnecessary to say, but I would not recommend this :)