Dropsafe

Because I am a highly-ranked site for my security (etc) content, I appear to be the #1 hit for the string Department of Vague which people have been pumping into Google. Hence my hitrate has skyrocketed. So, to clarify: I like that page. I linked to it. However I did not create it. I cannot…

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via Slashdot, [news.com.com] RFID tags become hacker target LAS VEGAS–Privacy advocates may not be the only people taking issue with the current crop of radio-frequency identification tags–merchants will likely have problems with a lack of security as well, a German technology consultant said Wednesday. Low-cost RFID tags–many which are smaller than a nickel and cost…

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Due to time constraints, I am going to have to split this week’s crypitcide posting into two parts – I have a lot going on at work, and this weekend likewise, so I will cut down to the meat of the matter and then dress it up with some finesse in the next few days.…

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So I sit down in the reading area outside my VP’s office, and I pick up a copy of: InformationAge Advisory Series ENTERPRISE SECURITY Sponsored By (CA) Computer Associates …a 50-page magazine pullout that discusses Understanding, Implementing and Managing Core Technologies. I flip to the back, to the Security Speak glossary, and scanning the page…

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Breaking News! See it while you can! [www.theregister.co.uk] The Cabinet Office has demanded that the author of the Preparing for Emergencies parody site, remove it from the Net immediately, and not put it up again in another guise. The government launched an advertising and leafleting campaign yesterday, advising us all of what to do in…

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I can’t put my finger on it, but something about this picture strongly puts me in mind of Malcolm McDowell: [blogs.sun.com]

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See [www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk] for a compendious index, and also [www.aslan.demon.co.uk] wherein is this extract: I am glad to see that Armageddon is coming back into fashion. Nuclear holocausts were a tremendously important part of my childhood. I can’t imagine how we’ve managed without them for so long. What must it be like to grow up without…

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Brilliant! For those of us who used to suffer When you hear the attack warning… – and really believed that the attack warning was going to sound like the Moog synthesiser chord that they played in the public information film… it put me off Depeche Mode for months… [www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk] Update: I did not create the…

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links: [www.geocities.com] and ([www.conceptlabs.co.uk] or [downlode.org] ) and [www.cryptorights.org] and my favourite: [www.maths.uwa.edu.au] which complements the more serious but equally useful [www.infidels.org] and [www.infidels.org] which have stood me in good stead as references for publicly deconstructing managementspeak for many, many years.

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From my mate Gilles Gravier comes this minor amusement: [www.guimp.com] …try the “BreakOut” game. 😎

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This one ought to go in RISKS-DIGEST: [story.news.yahoo.com] WILMINGTON, Del. – A vanity license tag chosen as a gag has left its owner holding the bag. Jim Cara thought the “NOTAG” plate he got for his Suzuki motorcycle would give people a laugh. Instead, he found that the laugh – along with more than 200…

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Picture (c) 2003 Paul Shearsmith / Andrew Grantham Website [www.ajg41.clara.co.uk] One of the things that I cherish most about living in the UK is the flipside of one of the aspects that I detest most about my job, or indeed about working as any sort of researcher or technical person – a boffin, a geek,…

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