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Rebooting Dropsafe: March 6th 2017
Notes: Well, today would have been Dad’s 98th birthday. I’ll drink a small toast to him, later. Project Status: Since I don’t really have a system for posting here at the moment, I think I’ll start with a brief list of everything that I think I am currently doing: Raspberry Pi Rig: currently: 6x RPi…
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An Open Letter to CA/Browser Forum re: Personal Certificates for “.onion”
Ryan, I’d like to take you up on your invitation and request that you forward the following text to the CA/Browser Forum public list, please… Hi CA/B Forum! I’m a software engineer and one of the authors of RFC 7686; since 2001 I have maintained a personal blog and it’s overdue for a complete software refresh. I want…
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Why is BT charging me for services that they tell me are free/included?
I prepaid for an entire year of line rental and only use it for DSL; so compare: With: And: …when, further, I saw this happening a few months ago (July? August?) and unsubscribed from those services; as I see it, I should not be being billed anything either because I unsubscribed from the services, or simply…
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So @BoingBoing has apparently gone puerile and forgotten the bigger picture /cc @doctorow
I like Boing-Boing, I’ve read it for years. I’ve met Cory several times as part of my work to help the Open Rights Group. I am generally sympathetic to a lot of the posts which are posted there. I like the blog. So yesterday there was something in the BoingBoing twitterfeed – a Disney Winnie-the-Pooh,…
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Quote of the Day:
Person A, quoting Mark Twain: “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” Person B: “In 2013, I think egress bandwidth may trump ink.”
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Muffett’s Personal Opinion on the Cyber Volunteer Force
A friend of mine asked me about the UK’s mooted Cybersecurity “volunteer” force; this is approximately how I responded: The Cyber-Force thing is simultaneously scary, tragic and amusing; Iain Lobban – Director of GCHQ – has been heard to lament that they cannot afford to pay for geeks: www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-security/gchq-boss-complains-of-cyber-brain-drain-34212 …that essentially they can’t compete with…
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The cost of UK Cybercrime was not £27bn – Hansard
Told you so… Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Labour) Let us look at cyber-statistics. In answer to my parliamentary question, the Minister put the cost of cybercrime at £27 billion, but that turns out to be a 2010 “guestimate” from defence company Detica. The National Audit Office misused Cambridge university figures, managing to confuse…
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Have logged this with @Jawbone about a bug with Big Jambox; let’s see what they do.
Hi Guys! I am running a software-updated 11-inch, Mid 2011 MacBook Air and using my Big Jambox. For reference I am a Unix system programmer and developer with 25 years of experience, so if you want to talk to me using quite long technical words, I am very happy. Long story short: I have paired…
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I am still trying to work out what happened to the Guardian’s followup Clegg article
So Googling for the relevant phrase yields this: Mousing over the “Nick Clegg queries…” link at the top yields the link illustrated at the bottom; but when you click through to Nicholas Watt’s article it does not use the word “intent” or any other of the relevant text. I am trying to establish whether…