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Leveson’s liberal friends bring shame upon the left | Nick Cohen | The Observer
This is necessary reading: Leveson’s liberal friends bring shame upon the left | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer. There is nothing wrong with an arbitration service to settle disputes about contentious speech. But a compulsory arbitration service is an oxymoron. It is state licensing of publishing. Leveson wants that but never…
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Dangerous Minds | Needling the Nazis: The subversive cross-stitching of Major Alexis Casdagli
Casdagli spent long hours working on his cross-stitching and between 1941 and 1945, he created a series of subversive samplers, in which Casdagli had hidden, around the Swastikas and Hammer & Sickles, a series of messages in Morse Code, which read: “God Save The King” “Fuck Hitler” via Dangerous Minds | Needling the Nazis: The…
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Stoya on the Pitfalls of Heteronormativity and Monogamy | VICE United States #MUSTREAD
I’ve never read anything by Stoya that is not literate, intelligent, well thought-out, well balanced and worth reading; this one in particular for anyone struggling to deal with the diversity of others; I’d also go so far as to call this one “almost work safe”: Stoya on the Pitfalls of Heteronormativity and Monogamy | VICE…
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Spy Chief Says Little Danger of Cyber ‘Pearl Harbor’ in Next Two Years | Wired # OMG COMMON SENSE IS BREAKING OUT ALL OVER
Contrary to much of the fear-mongering that has been spreading through the nation’s capital on cybersecurity matters lately, the director of national intelligence bucked that trend on Tuesday when he told a senate committee that there was little chance of a major cyberattack against critical infrastructure in the next two years. DNI James Clapper was…
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Retailer Sues Visa Over $13 Million ‘Fine’ for Being Hacked | Threat Level | Wired.com # End of the road for PCI ?
Damn, I’m not sure what I think about this: A sports apparel retailer is fighting back against the arbitrary multi-million-dollar penalties that credit card companies impose on banks and merchants for data breaches by filing a first-of-its-kind $13 million lawsuit against Visa. The suit takes on the payment card industry’s powerful money-making system of punishing…
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ipmi: freight train to hell #security #danfarmer
A paper on IPMI and BMC security: ipmi: freight train to hell, plain HTML or dangerous PDF (bloated director’s cut; HTML was generated from word and edited down.) – or – ipmi: express train to hell, in HTML or PDF (1 page, G-rated version.) The 2nd link is the express/single page/reader’s digest version, which has…