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  • If you seek insight into how the Government perceives the public aspect of ‘cybersecurity’, this is the answer

    2013/01/31 18:59:57 GMT

    TheyWorkForYou Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Labour) To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent assessment his Department has made of the cyber security of mobile devices.  Chloe Smith (Norwich North, Conservative) We have considered cyber threats in relation to mobile, smart phones, tablets and other mobile ICT equipment as outlined in…

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    politics and law security
  • Death of the #CookieLaw – Muffett’s Conspiracy Theory

    2013/01/31 14:59:59 GMT

    Inspired by this snippet: …of that infographic on the original blogpost, I am honestly left wondering whether the whole thing was a conscious experiment by someone in Government to see whether it would ever be feasible to regulate systems and network administration and software architecture? In other words: an experiment to establish whether anyone would…

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    censorship and interception politics and law security
  • The stupid cookie law is dead at last – “exactly what websites were doing in 2009, except in a bigger font”

    2013/01/31 14:23:40 GMT

    The organisation responsible for policing the UK cookie law has just announced that they will stop asking users for permission to set cookies on their own website. In other words: The Information Commissioner’s Office – who for brevity I’ll call Fickle the Clown –  says they’re doing this “so that we can get reliable information to make our website better”. They’ve changed their…

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    networking politics and law social networking software
  • Whom do I know who is attending #FOSDEM? I’d like to link interesting people together…

    2013/01/30 17:30:26 GMT

    this —^

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    miscellaneous ranting
  • How a WAF works

    2013/01/30 12:23:40 GMT

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI#t=0m35s

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    security
  • APOD: 2013 January 30 – Full Moon Silhouettes #astronomy #video #mustwatch #pretty

    2013/01/30 08:15:15 GMT

    Real time, not faked, not shopped. This is what it is like to watch the Earth turn. Via APOD: 2013 January 30 – Full Moon Silhouettes.

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    computing
  • $ more ~/scripts/fillproc

    2013/01/29 12:54:07 GMT

    $ more ~/scripts/fillproc #!/bin/sh -c exit 0

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    software
  • How hardware hacking (almost) made me a fraudster # I believe this article to be entirely, dangerously wrong…

    2013/01/29 07:38:53 GMT

    …to the point where it should possibly be taken down. Just because Windows licenses are enforced this way will not invalidate your credit cards. Simply put: it doesn’t work like this, and Microsoft are not snitching on you to the credit card agencies. A message popped up. “Card declined.” Nightmare. But… no money? Really? I…

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    miscellaneous ranting security
  • “The number of content removal requests we received increased by 98% compared to the previous reporting period” – Google Transparency

    2013/01/28 23:54:53 GMT

    United Kingdom – Government Removal Requests – Google Transparency Report.

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    censorship and interception
  • Giant isopod – Wikipedia # a foot-long deep-sea woodlouse

    2013/01/28 19:14:52 GMT

    Giant isopod – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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    fun
  • Pentagon Plans Massive Increase in Internet Security Teams

    2013/01/28 19:08:47 GMT

    Wouldn’t it be good if it actually read like this? Alas it does not; and we’ve moved from Cyber-Pearl-Harbour to Cyber-9/11? Ms Napolitano must be more worried about the Middle East than Asia this week. The Pentagon is planning to increase the number of security professionals from fewer than 1,000 to about 5,000 in the…

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    miscellaneous ranting security
  • “Is the country in love?” – state intelligence-gathering techniques used for philosophic, sentimental, romantic ends…

    2013/01/28 18:55:46 GMT

    On balance, I love this; let’s be honest that it’s exactly the sort of thing that the world’s acronymous state intelligence agencies want to do to Twitter, and I love that the dual-use nature of all technology can be outed in this way: People love a good smooch on a balcony: Monitoring mood in the…

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    censorship and interception security social networking
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