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by Alec Muffett

Google Alerts: “We Take Security Seriously” :: VeriFone Point-Of-Sale Systems

2012/07/13 19:50:45 BST

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A brief discourse regarding the @OpenRightsGroup London Pub Meetup in Southwark on Monday Evening

2012/07/13 19:06:53 BST

Hi everybody! I’d like to thank everyone who has signed up for the Open Rights Group London Pub Meeting on monday evening – and to everyone who hasn’t signed up I exhort you come along, I’d love to see you. Francis Davey (@fjmd1 on Twitter) will be dissecting the recently announced measures to implement the…
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NATO endorse the freedom-enhancing qualities of anonymity; don’t the UK Government agree? #CCDP #TorProject HT @runasand

2012/07/13 14:46:46 BST

Social Media and Online Anonymity during the Arab Spring It has been more than a year and a half since demonstrations broke out in central Tunisia at the funeral for Mohamed Bouazizi. Bouazizi, a fruit vendor, set himself on fire in protest of police corruption and ill treatment. The protests sparked by his death spread…
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Janey Godley’s Blog: Tim & Freya the full story & Conclusion! #epicread #friday

2012/07/13 11:13:56 BST

This entire story happened and was tweeted live by me Janey Godley from a Virgin train from Glasgow to London. Follow me on Twitter @janeygodley Continues at: Janey Godley’s Blog: Tim & Freya the full story & Conclusion! – adult themes
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I know some of my colleagues will complain, but my discovery of the week is #CryptoCat https://crypto.cat/

2012/07/13 10:34:34 BST

Unless they are falling asleep on the job I strongly suspect that Ben Laurie and Tom Ptacek will let rage mercilessly about the lack of wisdom* of doing crypto in the browser, but I do like CryptoCat – and not just for the cute video: Cryptocat Adventure! from Nadim Kobeissi on Vimeo. The concept is…
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Google Alerts: “We Take Security Seriously” :: Yet! More! Yahoo!

2012/07/13 10:15:26 BST

This is actually tuning into quite a good way of testing the temperature of the security industry.
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Acoustic Kitty – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia # 🙁

2012/07/13 08:01:09 BST

Acoustic Kitty was a CIA pet project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions, intended to spy on the Kremlin, and Soviet embassies. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. This would allow the cats…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-13

2012/07/13 06:00:00 BST

ANNOUNCE: July 16th London Pub Meet: "Three Strikes: Your ISP will disconnect you for downloading" http://t.co/OCk4TCKM # Hands up anyone who remembers Jan Pinkava from #Aberystwyth 🙂 https://t.co/kpR0YFKz # @mariafarrell and through that artificial scarcity we are trapped into a consumer's view of network services -> http://t.co/aD4wkICz # “Why is nobody crowing about ‘Critical National…
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Perfect Curve’s Digital Strategy – Twenty Twelve – BBC Two – YouTube # #funny #farfartoorealistic

2012/07/12 21:12:39 BST

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Sometimes you don’t need Instagram :: Shoreditch Sky # fixed posting from yesterday

2012/07/12 17:17:11 BST

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Google Alerts: “We Take Security Seriously” – Yahoo

2012/07/12 17:09:40 BST

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“Why is nobody crowing about ‘Critical National Infrastructure’?” (http://goo.gl/aSe4L at Computerworld) #cybersecurity #cni

2012/07/12 11:16:46 BST

Why is nobody crowing about ‘Critical National Infrastructure’? O2 went dark; RBS/NatWest/Ulster Bank died. Surely the Government ought to tell us what to do? Much cybersecurity planning is couched in terms of we must protect critical national infrastructure – but when a bank goofs a software upgrade and commits transactional suicide for a week (or…
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