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Observations on translating #cybersecurity documents into English
I’ve been working on decyber for giggles – and tuning it a bit; a new feature (just gone in) is a show changes checkbox – at which point something clearly leaps out. Journalists tend to stick to basic cyberterminology and just overuse it – which triggers the rewrite rules that replace each cybercliche with something…
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BBC News – Readers’ best passive-aggressive wi-fi names
Of course my favourite is Free Public WiFi. A recent feature on the rise of passive-aggressive wi-fi names prompted a huge response from readers. Here are a few of them. My friend Lola from Waddinxveen in The Netherlands is an ex US marine and finds it funny to scare her friends down her street with…
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Hartley Wintney: not only old people made from tweed & pocket lint who are waiting to die, but also: Tory Lingerie.
Conservative conference to be spiced up by lingerie entrepreneur and Betty Blues Loungerie, based in Hartley Wintney, near Basingstoke, proved to be a great success at the Conservative Party Conference Betty Blues Facebook Page / Main Page I blame Costa for this decline in standards. Marvellous. 🙂
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securityreactions.tumblr.com is great but it’s not as good as the real thing /ht @glynwintle @sec_reactions
A little light pentesting after a morning’s garden clearance chez-moi, and Glyn checks out a box: And this is what happened shortly afterwards.
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Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other – Telegraph
The Blackadder and Mr Bean star attacked the “creeping culture of censoriousness” which has resulted in the arrest of a Christian preacher, a critic of Scientology and even a student making a joke, it was reported. He criticised the “new intolerance” as he called for part of it the Public Order Act to be repealed,…
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decyber: “The National Security Agency has the most advanced capabilities for illegal hacking and defense in the world”
Unintentional, scary but possibly true comedy from running this through decyber: The White House is now developing an executive order that would not go so far, but it still wants more powerful laws. Even inside the administration, Hayden said, the Defense Department has defined the internet as a warfare domain that it must “dominate,” while…
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Nonsense paper accepted by mathematics journal – /ht @geoffarnold
I approve of this kind of pentesting; keeps the journals on their toes. There are several spoofs about at the moment. Each of these sentences [of the paper] contains mathematical nouns linked by the verbs mathematicians use, but the sentences scarcely connect with each other. The paper was created using Mathgen, an online random maths…
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#decyber 2.0 – Cybersecurity Hype-removal and Translation, now enhanced and with bookmarklet!
decyber: taking the fear out of cybersecurity short link: http://bit.ly/decyber [link fixed] Turns this: The Foreign Secretary was accompanied on his visit by the director of Britain’s top secret listening station GCHQ, Iain Lobban, who has previously warned of the growing threat to the United Kingdom posed by cyber attacks. In July 2011 Lobban made…
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decyber: taking the fear out of cybersecurity – http://bit.ly/decyber
Inspired by this, I present: decyber: taking the fear out of cybersecurity. …which works like this: Original: The risks from cyberspace (including the internet, wider telecommunications networks and computer systems) have been identified by the Government as a high priority risk. The UK is facing an ongoing, persistent threat from other states, terrorists and criminals…
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This is what happens when you elide ‘cyber’ from Military / Government vocabulary /ht @andrewsmhay
Some basic rules: cyberspace – is replaced by: the Internet cybersecurity – is replaced by: Internet security identity theft – is replaced by: fraud cyber (standalone) – is replaced by: Internet remaining ‘cyber’ gets deleted These are what I have used for this; I’ll play with the parser a bit and see if I can…