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Tesco Discount Barcodes, Cracked – and Censored?
So, on Reddit’s Netsec group I found the following link: Tesco (UK) discount barcodes cracked? (mtdevans.com) …and the usual extended Reddit discussion of the link; but I clicked through and what did I find: Tesco Discount Barcodes, Cracked Understandably, Tesco weren’t best pleased. Here ends playing with their barcodes. Sorry if you were too late.…
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How the new can live with the old: Robert Rogers at #TEDxHoP # and Tradition as a Security Blanket
It was a good talk, but that doesn’t require one to be uncritical.
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Comparative costs of #CCDP – Headline: 100x expensive than current data retention regime # MUST READ
Comparative costs of CCDP requests « Complicity. Currently: That’s quite a simple calculation to do: Each successful data request has a data retention cost of £31.76. With CCDP: So that’s £180 million a year for 55,255 more successful requests – or £3258 per request, over 100 times more expensive than under the current data retention…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-26
@tweetupwoky Hiya, is there a meet tonight? # Carryon Cat: http://t.co/Gf4ZWsiY # IPsec Question: Is anyone doing Split VPNs with #IPsec and #iPhone ie: not routing all traffic down the VPN, but just one subnet's worth? # RT @konrader: if you get any good answer to that question, let me know. I'm interested in setting…
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The more I look at the London Tech boom the more I think ‘Bay Area, 1993’ #sex #drink #tech #coding
Evidence: Facebook To Hire Engineering Team In London London ‘obvious choice’ for Amazon’s expansion Announcing TechHub at iCITY Olympic Park What is Google doing at a roundabout? …etc, etc; be honest, all the Silicon Fen, Silicon Glen, M4 Corridor bullshit of the 90s and Naughties was just preamble to this, propped up by the DotCom…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-25
@quinnnorton I have heard former dissidents put it: "you're already working from the perspective that you may die." /cc @okhin @dakami # @quinnnorton On that basis it's ok to assume the tech is broken and fall back to plaintext and trust in others. /cc @okhin @dakami # : TIL that some Shoreditch bars are running…
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TIL that some Shoreditch bars are running low on booze because of the Olympics
Bit ironic: Callooh Callay are having to take some of their drinks off the menu because ingredients – mixers, liqueurs – have run out and can’t be restocked easily… their distributors will only deliver between midnight and five am in their part of London, deeming it to be too close to the Olympics to take…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-24
@ruskin147 Well done Chirp, though I did hear tell of a Psion app that did similar audio networking. Sounded like frogs, apparently. # @williamheath Be fair, William. Ethernet is not secure, either. Transport / Layer 2 rarely is. /cc @BBCRoryCJ # : Fake Chinese LinkedIn profile tries to get me to connect to them http://t.co/CEPeb0b1…
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What would happen if the Church mandated filters on Internet access carried by its network?
It might happen: Rural broadband: connected churches bringing faster internet to Norfolk A wireless internet service provider is using church spires to beam its broadband network across rural Norfolk. From the top of All Saints church in the village of Salhouse, Norfolk, it’s striking how many other church towers can be seen, rising up from…
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Why is beauty such an important word? – Do Lectures # I’d call this a must-watch for life-affirmation & management
…but I can’t find a way to embed it. :-/ “Do Lectures” seems like a Welsh TED knockoff, but with more teeth. Why is beauty such an important word? – Do Lectures.
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Fake Chinese LinkedIn profile tries to get me to connect to them
So I get this: …which resonates from another approach I’ve had previously from a Shenzen networking company looking for a security veep (sorry guys, having too much fun at Surevine). Aaaaanyway, I do my favourite trick of the moment and push the profile picture through Google Image Search: …it’s stock imaging from a clothing catalogue.…