Author: Ian

By Doreen Valiente Hear now the words of the Witches,The secrets we hid in the night,When dark was our destiny’s pathway,That now we bring forth into light. Mysterious water and fire,The Earth and the wide-ranging air,By hidden quintessence we know them,And will and keep silent and dare. The birth and rebirth of all nature,The passing…

I‘ve heard many people trying to say what Traditional Witchcraft is and isn’t in the past few years. Most people think it’s a tradition like Wicca, but it is really an umbrella under which many witchcraft traditions flourish. Traditional Witchcraft has attracted many newcomers in the past five years as it is currently the “in…

Most of us in Western countries lead very insular lives.  We understand, on an intellectual level, that not everyone has the same standard of living or access to technology that we do, but fail to really comprehend what that means.  We also may fail to understand exactly how other people, other societies and cultures, interact…

TrueCrypt has been the most popular disk encryption software on the market for the past decade.  But this past week the developers shut it down, very quietly, and seem to have simply disappeared. The old TrueCrypt site at truecrypt.org now redirects to the Sourceforge page where a brief message simply states, “WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is…

Outside of my normal job I do a lot of work with small businesses and individuals, and it continues to amaze me that people still do not take information security seriously. So many people still have that mind set of thinking that computer security is really for banks or big businesses. That the home user…