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The slurs on McAlpine were quickly retracted – but # god forbid that libel payouts become rational
McAlpine is giving some of the smaller tweet offenders’ money to charity, his lawyer says. Good. Yet how, in the real world, do you balance a vile accusation quickly disproven against an injury (from mugging, perhaps) that can never be healed or forgotten? Look up the criminal injuries compensation tariff for serious brain damage "with…
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The Energy Generated from A Single Orange: A Citric Acid Battery by Caleb Charland | Colossal
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/11/the-energy-generated-from-a-single-orange/ Whoa….. Via @JimFinnis
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Hipster? Cyclist? Shoreditch? Faintly ‘county’? You’ll want #Trotify # Wonder if they’ll do a Boris Bike adapter?
Via BoingBoing: Geared coconut clomper makes your bike sound like a horsie from Monty Python and the Holy Grail Trotify …for the ones who won’t lower themselves to Etsy feather jewellery.
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Microsoft has failed | SemiAccurate # compelling and plausible from my experience
It’s a week old and for some reason cut-and-paste is not working on the article, but it makes a compelling case. HT @adriana872 and @mjj122 Microsoft has failed | SemiAccurate. The problem is that if you are locked in with a choice of 100% Microsoft or 0% Microsoft, once someone goes, it isn’t a baby…
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Shit Just Got Real
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Solar Designer on SunMD5 and MD5Crypt
Chance to play with Storify: [View the story “Solar Designer on SunMD5 and MD5Crypt” on Storify]
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MD5crypt Password Hashing Algorithm is no longer considered safe by author /ht @bsdphk
Can’t seem to get away from password security this week – Poul-Henning Kamp got in touch via Twitter: @alecmuffett In re password scramblers, you may find this bit of history interesting: phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt… — Poul-Henning Kamp (@bsdphk) November 21, 2012 – and lo, he is correct. Use of MD5crypt to hash passwords should now be considered…
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Regrettably @Mat Honan is Entirely Wrong about “Killing Passwords” /cc @Wired
I’ve read Mat’s article and I know where he’s coming from. Mat’s article does make some sense – and his story is near tragic: This summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour. My Apple, Twitter, and Gmail passwords were all robust—seven, 10, and 19 characters, respectively, all alphanumeric, some…
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A note from Solar Designer (@solardiz) re: SunMD5
While we’re touching on SunMD5, I recently received this from Solar – he of John the Ripper fame: I actually thought of you recently – when we finally had to crack SunMD5 hashes in the recent contest, and then when JimF on our team (after the contest, unfortunately) produced a SIMD implementation of SunMD5 for…
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Hacker Faces Jail for Accessing Public URLs That Revealed AT&T iPad User Emails w/ Possible Chilling Effects for Online Freedom | MIT Technology Review
Auernheimer, whose pugnacious online persona is Weev, is up on two counts, each with the potential to land him with five years in jail. One alleges that by being in possession of the e-mails from AT&T’s leaky system he handled “identification information” in breach of a law intended to protect against identity theft, USC 1028.…
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Regulators, Password Hashing & Crypto considered as a Branding Exercise: #bcrypt #security /cc @schneierblog @glynwintle
Pardon the rambling, mildly-edited nature of this, but: earlier this year, Whit Diffie mailed me and asked: What is your view of BCrypt and how does it relate to the algorithm you did for Sun? I can’t recall whether yours was earlier or later, so I don’t know whether to ask why you didn’t use…
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I have several friends to whom this would apply … #caturday
Mostly, but not exclusively, female. And the cats.