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  • Twitter Updates for 2012-09-07

    @owenblacker My impression of Woking is that it largely consists of a staircase. # @BenLaurie Macroblogging: http://t.co/doHqPYYP 😛 /cc @zooko # Defence by @CompassionUK of "personal commitment to the Christian faith" employment requirements: http://t.co/R67UMGmd /cc @Joe_Henegan # .@Joe_Henegan Alas, Joe, removing tweets does not really work. There's this thing called the Google Cache, and then…

  • Wow: @CompassionUK’s Statement of Faith. Deserves sharing:

    From here, my italics: Compassion’s Statement of Faith Compassion adheres to the statement of faith established by the World Evangelical Alliance. We believe in: The Holy Scriptures, as originally given by God: divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy and the supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct. One God, eternally existent in three persons,…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-09-06

    @petermacrobert nope, but could pop over for drinks this evening if you are… # @petermacrobert guess where I am # @petermacrobert TechHipster # @s3cb0t Relevant, perhaps, to denials: http://t.co/Lvwb9i4G # @petermacrobert @konrader you mean? # RT @tommorris: New rule: if @glynwintle has to put on a tie, what you are proposing is probably a really…

  • UPEK Fingerprint Readers: a Huge Security Hole | Advanced Password Cracking – Insight

    http://blog.crackpassword.com/2012/08/upek-fingerprint-readers-a-huge-security-hole/ Via the inestimable and wonderful @glynwintle

  • NCFTA no longer eschews PII ? /cc @kashhill @kimzetter

    So the NCFTA is a nonprofit organisation which exists to share non-personally-identifiable-information (non-PII) with US Government police and security services: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/26/the-fbi-workaround-for-private-companies-to-share-information-with-law-enforcement-without-cispa/ NCFTA director Ron Plesco lists off his organization’s purpose rotely: “We do information sharing with three goals: ID the cybercrime threat, share toward mitigation, share toward neutralization of threat.” As part of a non-profit,…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-09-05

    MUSTREAD How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards; #NeilGaiman #DrWho | Can we call Censorbots “Daleks”? http://t.co/wJE80kBe # @JanetCSIRT ELOSTCONTEXT ? # Can we please ensure that all upcoming Party Conference speeches are backed by rabidly-copyrighted music? http://t.co/wJE80kBe # @JanetCSIRT Yes. Link is meant to be there. # @JanetCSIRT Underlying theory of experiment is…

  • Radio 4 PM Porn Blocking Interview

    Six minutes. It speaks for itself. “Porn is a public health issue, like drugs, or seatbelts”. This text will be replaced

  • “Hackers Release 1 Million Apple Device IDs Allegedly Stolen From FBI Laptop” #itmustbetuesday

    Hackers Release 1 Million Apple Device IDs Allegedly Stolen From FBI Laptop | Threat Level | Wired.com. Really, I can’t be arsed. “N million passwords stolen – cyberterror!” is not the right way to think;”N million passwords stolen – it must be tuesday”, is. — Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) September 3, 2012

  • Hartley Wintney WI Market / Country Market – Documentary on YouTube!

    For anyone who has ever wondered what I am on about:

  • MUSTREAD How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards | #NeilGaiman #DrWho #Worldcon – Can we call Censorbots “Daleks”?

    The story writes itself… Last night, robots shut down the live broadcast of one of science fiction’s most prestigious award ceremonies. No, you’re not reading a science fiction story. In the middle of the annual Hugo Awards event at Worldcon, which thousands of people tuned into via video streaming service Ustream, the feed cut off…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-09-04

    @agelastic "you" meaning whom ? # @agelastic Yes, and in fact we did before. And your criticism would be just except that you are assuming our threat model. # @agelastic (Ah, you're at Atlassian) – so let's be honest, there's should be nothing wrong with assuming JIRA will keep a secret by default # @agelastic…

  • Best fiscally racist joke evar …

    …came from an ex-colleague of mine who reads this blog and may a) fess up and b) correct me if I get it a little wrong. Scene: A Global IT Architecture Team, two senior architects discussing between themselves the miserliness of their divisional head: “…you do realise that what we’ve got here is a Jew…