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PyCon Dongle Drama Denouement! #pycon #donglegate
Regards this story, see https://www.facebook.com/SendGrid/posts/10151502570463967 Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards. While we generally are sensitive and confidential with respect to employee matters, the situation has taken on a public nature. We have taken action that we believe is in the overall best interests of SendGrid, its employees, and our customers.…
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Further, regarding #HackedOff / @HackingInquiry, @OpenRightsGroup and the #Leveson meeting last night /ht @webmink
So, as noted elsewhere, last night I was at a meeting with HackedOff; my colleague Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group, has written it up with an optimistic perspective. I am less of an optimist. It wasn’t a “good discussion” – it was an outright shambles and I was left feeling that the process…
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#PyCon attendee fired from job for being overheard making ‘dongle’ jokes
Without comment: …and… What I will share with you here is the backstory that led to this – The guy behind me to the far left was saying he didn’t find much value from the logging session that day. I agreed with him so I turned around and said so. He then went onto say…
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“I’m from the Internet and I’m here to help” – an explanation for those who lack context
This is a clear political philosophy; just extrapolate a bit… Part I: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dont-worry-im-from-the-internet: Part II:
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madebypxi • PXi Ventures is hiring a CEO for #Vinepeek
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Meeting with #HackedOff / @HackingInquiry this Evening
Myself and several others met with #HackedOff this evening, re: the Leveson Royal Charter. I won’t go too much into the details of who was there, what was said and who said what, not because it was painted as Chatham House or anything – I don’t believe that disclosure was even mentioned – but chiefly…
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AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison | Threat Level | Wired.com # But surely here in the UK we are safe? #techcity? #siliconroundabout?
Andrew Auernheimer, 26, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was found guilty last November in federal court in New Jersey of one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization after he and a colleague created a program to collect information on iPad owners that had been exposed by a security…
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Royal Charter or Star Chamber For Stars? | Wild Webmink #leveson #blog #chillingeffects
Of course, the proposals have no regard for this meshed world of creator-consumers. All the thinking revolves around Big Media, so there’s no representation for me or you in the regulatory body it creates, nor accommodation for the realities of the meshed society we inhabit. By including the new meshed world of creator-consumer citizens into…
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… and calls on the Government to impose sanctions on Twitter until it agrees to fully co-operate with the UK authorities…
Say what you like about Galloway – if you are happy to risk doing so – but where he leads in thinking, others are likely to follow in only slightly watered-down ways. TWITTER AND THE DETECTION OF CRIME Session: 2012-13 Date tabled: 14.03.2013 Primary sponsor: Galloway, George That this House notes that Twitter is now…