Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

“Chinese Cyberwarriors in your Chips?” (http://goo.gl/XK2WI at Computerworld) #FPGAbackdoor

2012/05/28 07:47:13 BST

Chinese Cyberwarriors in your Chips? Perhaps, but the Cambridge ones are more interesting The security interwebs this morning are alive with reference to Sergei Skorobogatov’s webpage at Cambridge, the key quote from which is: We developed breakthrough silicon chip scanning technology to investigate these claims. We chose an American military chip that is highly secure…
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hardware security writing
Twitter Updates for 2012-05-28

2012/05/28 06:00:00 BST

Tip for life: Please ignore Keen. # : Kosmograd: Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone http://t.co/QUVtTGls # : The Naive Optimist • Hitting 40 employees and going vanilla http://t.co/etakKVdf #
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The Naive Optimist • Hitting 40 employees and going vanilla

2012/05/27 11:31:57 BST

We’re just about to hit 40 full-time employees at Treehouse and I’ve noticed that the urge to go “vanilla” is pretty strong. As companies grow they seem to have a natural tendency to move from creative, fun and adventurous cultures to safe, systemitized “vanilla” cultures. They’re safe and repeatable but very boring. I think there are…
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business
Kosmograd: Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone

2012/05/27 11:30:56 BST

In graphic design, an ‘exclusion zone’ is an area around a logo which must be left clear. Corporate brand and logo usage guidelines demonstrate the proportion of vertical and horizontal space around a logo into which no other element can intrude. In urban design, exclusion zones are becoming commonplace in relation to sponsorship of sporting…
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censorship and interception miscellaneous ranting
Twitter Updates for 2012-05-27

2012/05/27 06:00:00 BST

: My Dr Who question, answered… #goshilovetheinterwebs #varos http://t.co/8KreMPQk # http://t.co/DRoDiwb3 # RT @dracos 1. Make flippant remark about piping absent friend's tweets to speaker for Eurovision. 2. Pause. 3. https://t.co/LcCzueIz # : Theories of Bicycle Pornography – YouTube http://t.co/WdQmwxqT #
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Theories of Bicycle Pornography – YouTube

2012/05/26 20:38:27 BST

Celebrate the beauty and sexuality of bicycles. Bicycles are objects of human desire. Objectification of bicycles. Humans make bikes; human make babies too. Bicycles are brought into life as adults. Don’t use the term ‘riding’ or ‘rider’. ‘Ride or ‘riding’ is a dominant relationship term. Use ‘cyclist’ instead. Fantasies of the bicycle as ‘other’. Always…
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cycling
My Dr Who question, answered… #goshilovetheinterwebs #varos

2012/05/26 07:33:11 BST

Re: Was this an episode of Dr Who, or Blake’s 7? There was this planet where…. You watch something once – patchily, and without expectation of being able to get into it because the family doesn’t really “do” sci-fi except for you – and remember it 25+ years later, and it gets identified by your…
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fun
Twitter Updates for 2012-05-26

2012/05/26 06:00:00 BST

RT @runasand: Here's the Evening Standard article about #Tor and the dark web/hidden services: http://t.co/2fwpDCyN and http://t.co/ggLVz86g # London folk! Check out #Tor & article with @RunaSand in this week's Evening Standard magazine! http://t.co/2fwpDCyN http://t.co/ggLVz86g # : Was this an episode of Dr Who, or Blake's 7? There was this planet where… http://t.co/I9aSK8et # @guy_herbert…
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Was this an episode of Dr Who, or Blake’s 7? There was this planet where…

2012/05/25 18:12:37 BST

…the President (or similar) was required to be hooked up to an electric chair so they would be executed if they lost a confidence vote – possibly any political vote – of all the viewers/voters on the world. I was just reading this article about Reddit and the SOPA blackout and an Internet Bat-Signal, and…
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fun security
Twitter Updates for 2012-05-25

2012/05/25 06:00:00 BST

@newsmary It's not that it speaks well but that it speaks at all. Give it a decade and a bunch more films. Hollywood shld worry # > @OpenRightsGroup & @BritishLibrary attacked by publishing lobbyist @richardmollet for justifying “tawdry theft” http://t.co/FsTXJ0RO # I'd rather be associated with / in the company of the British Library, than…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-24

2012/05/24 06:00:00 BST

It's #bigtent time again, looks like the theme this year is meeja peeps …. # #bigtentuk Partners = Music Managers Forum, heavy copyright theme through here today @openrightsgroup # #bigtentuk Ah, Amanda Platell = Daily Mail. Right. # #bigtentuk Chap from Talk-Talk plugging use of Symantec for a block list provider # #bigtentuk James Firth's…
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Chainmail Socks for #Barefoot Running. Yes, really. Eat your heart out #Vibram

2012/05/23 22:45:24 BST

I had dinner with my ex-colleague Constantin Gonzalez (visiting from Munich) and he’s heavily into barefoot/ish running, working serially through trainers, Terra Plana shoes, Vibram Five-Fingers, and then doing 10km runs through the forests of Munich, barefoot. A friend of his manufactures chainmail gloves for the butchery/fishmonger trade and as an experiment made some chainmail…
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geek living