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#Cybersecurity Quote of the Week: “If we can defend the model train set [we can] defend the real thing”
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/12/airforce-afcyber-121112w/ Here’s how CyberCity will work: Users must first hack into physical cameras distributed throughout the model city to gain a visual picture of what’s happening. Users are given missions that could include preventing terrorists from contaminating the town’s reservoir, derailing a train or hacking into the town’s utility company and shutting down power. Another…
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Bluetooth-Sniffing Highway Traffic Monitors Vulnerable to MITM Attack | The Security Ledger
http://securityledger.com/bluetooth-sniffing-highway-traffic-monitors-vulnerable-to-mitm-attack/ Where have we heard this before? But researchers from the University of California at San Diego and the University of Michigan found that the Post Oak system isn’t as secure as promised. The AWAM Bluetooth Reader Traffic System doesn’t use sufficient entropy when generating authentication and host keys that are used to secure communications…
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Patrick Moore was the uncle of Alan Moore?
But the far more sizeable majority of non-comics readers have not the first idea who this guy is. So writing in praise of Alan Moore is, probably, some sort of public duty. He’s really, really good. Hence, the reverential bafflement that attended a profile of Moore screened by the BBC’s Culture Show this week. Who…
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Bike, camera, inaction! # When a Barrister on a Bike pursues a driver through the Courts
The conversation whilst stationary at the traffic lights was picked up crystal clear, word for word, including Lomas’s double admission that he had indeed just threatened to kill me. Any competent lawyer would know that here was compelling evidence of a Public Order Act offence. I therefore Googled the telephone number of Hounslow police station…
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It’s not wrong to avoid tax | David Giampaolo and Geoffrey Wood # slightly astonished to find this in the Grauniad
Why is it unethical to comply with the law? That is precisely what anyone who claims a company is immoral if it legally minimises its tax is saying. That is what anyone who boycotts Starbucks, or any other multinational company, is saying. The protesters – who have vowed to continue their action even though Starbucks…
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Portal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator | Ars Technica # EPIC
Marcolina also had to attempt to replicate the characteristic Portal level design, but under severe memory constraints (graphing calculators are barely modern devices any more, having only just recently gotten color screens). Apps in a graphing calculator are limited to executing 16 kilobytes of code, a severe constraint given the amount of animation involved, Marcolina…
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“I have a cloud. You have a botnet. They have a cyberwarfare capability” – best @arashiyama quote evar
@ioerror “Irregular nouns of #cyber: I have a cloud. You have a botnet. They have a cyberwarfare capability.” /cite @arashiyama — Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) December 8, 2012
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How to stop Terrorism: Jobs, Marriage and Kids. /ht @thegrugq
Via a tip from the Grugq, some digging: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2001/12/hoffman.htm The problem, however, was that Black September had served its purpose. The PLO and its chairman had the recognition and acceptance they craved. Indeed, any continuation of these terrorist activities, ironically, now threatened to undermine all that had been achieved. In short, Black September was, suddenly,…
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a seasoned infosec veteran and a newcomer to the industry – Infosec Reactions # comedy is recognition
a seasoned infosec veteran and a newcomer to the industry – Infosec Reactions.
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BBC Media Centre: Belle de Jour’s History Of Anon # Radio4, 31 Dec..4 Jan #privacy #anonymity /ht @bmagnanti @openrightsgroup
Belle de Jour’s History Of Anon A history of anonymity and why writers have sought it, as told by Brooke Magnanti, the real voice behind one of the 21st century’s most famous anonymous texts, Belle de Jour’s Diary Of A London Call Girl. Brooke explores motivations for remaining masked and the lengths the anonymous have…