Ultimate Security Guide

6 Jul, 2020 - 31 minutes
Comprehensive Security and Privacy Strategy for 2020 With the plight of the COVID-19 pandemic forcing people to digitize nearly all aspects of their lives, now is the perfect time for a general purpose guide to staying as safe as possible online. This guide has good pointers for just about anyone, but dissidents and journalists in particular should take particular note of this guide and fully implement the suggestions made below. I go highly in depth with application choice and best practices for privacy and security for desktop platforms as well as general services including those that bridge the online/offline divide.

An Overview of Raku

30 Jun, 2020 - 6 minutes
What is Raku and What are its Features? Raku (also known as Perl 6) is an interpreted language designed to accompany (rather than replace) the much older Perl 5. The specification has been in the works for nearly two decades, but the first releases only started being published less than 5 years ago. There have been some salient improvements in Raku that we’ll take a look at Static typing Raku allows the user to declare static types if they choose.

Criminal Justice Now

29 Jun, 2020 - 1 minutes
It has been a little while in the making, but this is the first policy brief for Watchdog. This lays down what we’d like to see change in criminal justice. In no way is this fully comprehensive and may be subject to various updates in the future as new suggestions are made and previously unseen evidence comes to fruition. Take a read here.