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Epic #mustread on DDoS, re: Spamhaus/Cyberbunker and “bringing down the Internet” with DDoS
Extract from the posting: First off I can confirm a few basic facts, namely that we really did receive a ~300 Gbps attack directed at Cloudflare, and later specifically targeted at pieces of our core infrastructure. This is definitely on the large end of the scale as far as DoS attacks go, but I wouldn’t…
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A BDSM/Fetish website which apparently locks-in its user data and then deletes it #fetlife #aptbutwrong
No joke; from Feb 2013: In case you weren’t already aware, Fetlife has announced that to maintain their relationship with their credit card processor, they have to delete quite a bit of content. I hate that credit card companies get to police what we can talk about, but I can understand why the Fetlife team decided to…
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Graphic Designer of the Year – Neatorama
Kasper Stromman won the coveted Graphic Designer of The Year, which he promptly celebrated by designing the best sweatshirt the world has ever seen. Naturally, Comic Sans is involved. via Graphic Designer of the Year – Neatorama.
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What will happen when 3D-printing stops being a toy? #youtube #defcad
I’m not exactly pro-guns or anything like that – am not a great fan, plus those are “American” questions from a British viewpoint – however this YouTube video really makes you think about the future of intellectual property. If the first minute puts you off, do stick with it; it’s a short video and it’s…
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BBC: Met Office three-month forecast was ‘not helpful’ # in other news, the Met Office has a ‘soul’
A soul-searching Met Office analysis later confessed: "Given that April was the wettest since detailed records began in 1910 and the April-May-June quarter was also the wettest, this advice was not helpful." In a note to the government chief scientist, the Met Office chief scientist Prof Julia Slingo explains the difficulty of constructing long-distance forecasts,…
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Cyber-security: The digital arms trade | The Economist # It’s shit like this which will hurt Full Disclosure
IT IS a type of software sometimes described as “absolute power” or “God”. Small wonder its sales are growing. Packets of computer code, known as “exploits”, allow hackers to infiltrate or even control computers running software in which a design flaw, called a “vulnerability”, has been discovered. Criminal and, to a lesser extent, terror groups…
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BBC News – Saudi Arabia ‘threatens Skype ban’ # TWIST: #interception breaks the #privacy of the #Hijab
Strange bedfellows… Encrypted messaging services such as Skype, Viber and WhatsApp could be blocked in Saudi Arabia, the telecommunications regulator there is reported to have warned. It is demanding a means to monitor such applications, but Saudis say that would seriously inhibit their communications. Saudi newspapers are reporting that the companies behind the applications have…
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“LENA! LAUNCH A WORM!” – the best bit of the #Deloitte “#Cyber #Security Evolved” Campaign
As stated previously: WORST EPISODE OF SPOOKS. EVAR. …but we still love it for the embarrassing cyber wrongness of it all…
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Python speed optimization in the real world
What worked, ultimately, was finding operations that have instruction costs O(n**2) in the number of commits and squashing them. At this point a shout-out goes to Julien “FrnchFrgg” Rivaud, a very capable hacker trying to use reposurgeon for some work on the Blender repository. He got interested in the speed problem (the Blender repo is…