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Analysis: “We must all take our cyber-security seriously” – Editorial, Observer / Guardian
DOUBLE WORD SCORE: Both cyber and we take security seriously Weirdly, I agree totally with this right up and until the last sentence of the last paragraph, hence why I quote it at length: We must all take our cyber-security seriously Editorial The Observer, Sunday 3 February 2013 It has been a fragile week for cyber-security,…
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Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus
Just back from the village shops, where I bought a thoughtful ice-cream. Big thoughts. Small ice-cream. Walking back I looked up, and the sky tonight is blazing with stars; all I need is a winter night sky to be thirteen again, suffering insomnia and fairly convinced that with the impending death of Brezhnev I would…
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Fuck me, #CCDP has already spent £405m pounds of its expected £1.8b budget /ht #CDB @openrightsgroup @julianhuppert
Quoth the men from the Ministry: In text: The Office of Security and Counter Terrorism has spent £405 million since May 2010 on the communications capabilities development programme under the current Government which is based on the premise that there will be collaborative relations with communications services providers who will be expected to retain relevant…
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So Twitter got hacked; here’s the one bit of advice they didn’t hand out
On the Twitter Blog: As you may have read, there’s been a recent uptick in large-scale security attacks aimed at U.S. technology and media companies. Within the last two weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have chronicled breaches of their systems, and Apple and Mozilla have turned off Java by default in…
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“Cyber War Will Not Take Place”: Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Rid: Books # DUE JUNE 2013 #MUSTREAD
Cyber War Will Not Take Place: Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Rid: Books ‘Cyber war is coming,’ announced a land- mark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the ‘fifth domain’ of war- fare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cyber war really…
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Turn your browser into a notepad /ht @dogsbodyorg
Dan Benton Brilliant! Instant notepad by typing “data:text/html,<html contenteditable>” into your browser bar. Works. Probably bookmarkable. UPDATE: And I also just discovered that if you can inject <html contenteditable> into a webpage, you kill all the links on it. This could be useful…
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“Kastor” / Alessi on Behance # MUST WANT PENCIL SHARPENER
"Kastor" / Alessi on Behance. If only I used pencils…
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This Wikipedia page needs an “Unprofessional Bodies” section:
UK Cyber Security Community From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Cyber Security (or Information Assurance) community in the UK is diverse, with many stakeholders groups contributing to support the UK Cyber Security Strategy. The following is a list of some of these stakeholders. Contents Trade Associations and Industry Groups Government Professional Bodies Academic Community References…
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Dropsafe Quote of the Day
Personally, I still think that a statement to the effect of “you are prohibited from knowing something, on grounds purely involving your age” would qualify as a conspiracy theory, were it not entirely true. Dave Walker, in the comments of this blog. See also his thoughts on user interfaces for kids normal people.
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Two killjoy researchers from Cambridge doubt whether quantum cryptography can be regarded as ‘provably secure’ #guesswho
Quantum crypto still not proven, claim Cambridge experts Two killjoy researchers from the University of Cambridge have cast doubt on whether quantum cryptography can be regarded as ‘provably secure’ – and are asking whether today’s quantum computing experimentation is demonstrating classical rather than quantum effects. Computer scientists Ross Anderson and Robert Brady have published their…