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Apparently the Deputy PM thinks Anti-Terrorism Legislation is fairly used to retrieve/destroy classified data #Miranda
Interesting. Nick Clegg’s recent (friday evening) posting in the Guardian has been amended, saying: This article was amended at 21.05 BST for legal reasons Why would that be? Well a blogger notes: Deleted line from Clegg Guardian article: "The intent behind detaining Miranda was the same: to retrieve or destroy classified information." — Craig Mason…
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A simple rebuttal to @cguitton’s attempt to trash Tor Hidden Services /cc @torproject
There’s this paper by this guy at KCL. That he’s posted it on Dropbox is both relevant and ironic. In it, and in his Twitter feed, he argues essentially that Tor is OK-ish, but promotes anonymity – which he sees as “bad” – and Tor Hidden Services are intolerable and should “no longer be developed”…
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New Marmite ad is magnificent, especially the pixellated dog
Shame about the stupidity.
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2010: ThorpeGlen Maintains the Worlds Largest Social Network
Just in case it ever vanishes, a memory from archive.org; Thorpe Glen were a spinoff of a spinoff of BT and were subsequently bought-out – I forget by whom; their website lies idle; but be aware that they existed back then. ThorpeGlen Maintains the Worlds Largest Social Network Date published: 6th July, 2010 Technology innovation enables dynamic…
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Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes London Transport Poster
It’s mentioned in many places on the web, but it turns out that this fabulously Orwellian poster from several years ago: …is available as a hi-res PDF at WhatDoTheyKnow, the result of a FOIA. My irony meter is rather strained by this discovery.
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Tales from Sun Microsystems – stuff you would not believe…
It was very similar to now, but also very very different… Bob Coe once told me he did not have to interview the candidates for his Administrative Assistant position. I should simply ask each candidate to link her hands behind her head with her elbows pointing forward and walk toward the wall. If her elbows…
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Whilst we’re learning today: Holodomor. No, it’s not Harry Potter, not at all…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor The Holodomor (Ukrainian: – , “Extermination by hunger” or “Hunger-extermination“;[2] derived from ‘-‘, “Starving someone” [3]) was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR and adjacent Cossack territories between 1932 and 1933. During the famine, which is also known as the “Terror-Famine in Ukraine” and “Famine-Genocide in Ukraine”,[4][5][6] millions of Ukrainians and Cossacks died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.[7] The estimates of…
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TIL: about Freedom of the Press – #milton #areopagitica
TIL about “Freedom of the Press” – my emboldening of a key point. My question to you, dear reader, is whether you can accept that every man, woman and (likely) child should be permitted to exercise their reason? Until 1694, England had an elaborate system of licensing. No publication was allowed without the accompaniment of a…
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One Voice Community Choir perform on a closed M6 Motorway
So yesterday I was returning from Scotland – more of that later – and traffic alerts and GPS guided me around a major motorway closure; the M6 near Stoke-on-Trent was closed due to a fatal motorcycle crash, traffic was stopped in the road for several hours whilst investigations were carried out – I believe the…
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Cybersecurity and “Igon Values”
Igon Value Problems: so very, very applicable to politicians and cybernetwork-security… I will say this about Malcolm Gladwell: I like his writing, which oozes with intellect that enables him to see angles that many people miss. As a golf fan, I thoughtGladwell’s assessment of Tiger Woods versus Phil Mickelson was so spot-on that I printed out…
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HP Keeps Installing Secret Backdoors in Enterprise Storage # and the best bit is the password they used…
…and a quick Google for 78a7ecf065324604540ad3c41c3bb8fe1d084c50 yields “badg3r5”, which is a really terrible password by any metric… Even with root access, the secret admin account does not give support techs or hackers access to data stored on the HP machines, according to the company. But it does provide enough access and control over the hardware…