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Steve speaks: Cybersecurity Advice for (Possible) President Obama

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80s-lifestyle1.jpg (JPEG Image, 719×1024 pixels) Wow – I used these things. Eek. Via http://www.idiottoys.com/2008/07/rare-early-1980s-product-display.html (tags: computers trs80) Evolution of Security: Myth Buster: TSA’s Watch List is More Than One Million People Strong There are less than 400,000 individuals on the consolidated terrorist watch list. That few? Really?

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w00t – coverage in El Reg of the Apple ID nuisance… Apple account hijacks spread to developers | The Register […] Alec Muffett, a network security expert, responded to Karppinen’s tale by posting links to accounts of his own experiences of suffering from credit card fraud days after his Apple ID was stolen in November…

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Fantastic – and I’ll bet nobody in their office calls it “unconstructive” or “inappropriate”. This is how people really talk, at least over here. Via the inestimable Kevin.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal […stupidity elided…] BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up. May I recommend Zen Internet? They are my ISP and I have a good relationship with them…

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Trike towing a MTB? Originally uploaded by alecmuffett I tried it, but in truth it didn’t work. I did a test run around the car park and on cornering the pivot of the MTB headstock was too far from vertical to function properly, and on a sharp corner the MTB broke its moorings and fell…

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…by my colleague Steve Elliott Stupendous pics, Steve.

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Go read: http://beezari.livejournal.com/141796.html http://blog.invisibledenizen.org/2008/07/kaminskys-dns-issue-accidentally-leaked.html http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-dans-request-for-no-speculation.html [

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2008_07_14-15_vrm08_057 Originally uploaded by dsearls Me, participating in one of Adriana’s Q&A sessions at the recent Project VRM conference at Harvard. I was in a t-shirt and shorts at home, with the cats; they were a few thousand miles away; if nothing else this is a victory for the new high-def features of Skype, and…

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Canning Stock Route by Bike 2005 Better index of photos for the CSR crossing. (tags: bicycle photography) FT.com | Should we cyclists bother to wear helmets? Mark me in the helmets are a nuisance category. Depends what you are doing. Not same for Motorbikes, though. (tags: bicycle cycle cycling helmet bikes bike)

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Dave Winer wrote: If you’re going to do an API please use XML. …and I am doing it for a project upon which I am working, but I am increasingly asking “why”? There’s nothing magical about having extra angle brackets, irrespective of the beliefs of the Church of SGML. I think the answer is in…

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Normally I am a modest fan of Velorution and Andrea’s blog, but this just appeared on it and frankly it makes me uncomfortable. I am not sure what to make of it, but unless it’s a bizzare form of irony with which I am unfamiliar, I think I will be unsubscribing. [I will rot13 the…

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