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by Alec Muffett

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  • Twitter Updates for 2012-07-04

    HEADSUP: #TorProject discover security flaw in Middle-Eastern DPI interception device; release security advisory: https://t.co/36tBmaVn # .@runasand The irony is delicious, yes. # For those who miss the humour of @runasand / @torproject's discovery, it's not unlike giving a police car a parking ticket… # "Perhaps ones from more competent vendors." #torproject #cyberroam https://t.co/YNfgjWmR (via https://t.co/36tBmaVn)…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-07-03

    "if that had happened, I have absolutely no doubt that there could have been loss of life" http://t.co/5lZOugX5 #compoundedhypotheticals # #Twitter what have you done to your input methods & can you switch them off please? Hashtags cause Username lookups, RETURN forces insertion # IceCreamSandwich broke Wifi tethering on my GalaxyS2, & USB tethering on…

  • “And such people often crawl the web in search of things to be upset by.”

    The American writer HL Mencken once said that a puritan is someone with the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.  Similarly, there will be always someone, somewhere, who will find a certain type of message to be menacing, obscene, indecent, or grossly offensive.  And such people often crawl the web in search of…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-07-02

    .@runasand That's 10p/min to have credentials sniffed by *business* ; to have credentials sniffed by the Government will soon be *free* # : Dilbert on #biometrics #security – #mustread http://t.co/95mWMiV5 # @doctorow During the post- #TEDxHOP tour of the Commons I was horrified to learn how few people know you can just turn up and…

  • I have invented Pink Rum! … it’s actually rather nice.

    Havana Club 3yo & Angostura.

  • Fibonacci Cake !

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  • Dilbert on #biometrics #security – #mustread

    Dilbert.com – The Official Dilbert Website with Scott Adams’ color strips, Dilbert animation, mashups and more!.

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-07-01

    : The social-media turf wars have finally begun – "Starting today Tweets will no longer be displayed on LinkedIn." http://t.co/zbWpUOMc # "You're cycling? But what will you do if it rains?" "Get wet." #istheresomethingwrongwiththat ? # RT @chrisgerhard: @AlecMuffett as the Dutch say: "you are not made of sugar" # Testing #Spotify – a track:…

  • Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld – Telegraph

    Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld, who has died aged 88, escaped from Occupied France to join the Special Operations Executive SOE; parachuted back on sabotage missions, he twice faced execution, only to escape on both occasions, once dressed as a Nazi guard. via Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld – Telegraph.

  • “Words or conduct which would not intimidate or influence anyone to respond to the demand would not be menaces” #twitterjoketrial

    Oh this is good: In seeking to raise the threshold for menacing, Cooper relies heavily on a 1968 case R v Clear, in which Sellers LJ makes the following statement: Words or conduct which would not intimidate or influence anyone to respond to the demand would not be menaces … but threats and conduct of…

  • The social-media turf wars have finally begun – “Starting today Tweets will no longer be displayed on LinkedIn.”

    First there were silos; you had to be on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn separately. Then they crosslinked, first using password-sharing – the antipattern – then OpenID, and the user could post an update in one and all would see it. Now: belts are tightening, the walls are going back up. Remember you are the product –…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-06-30

    : So the Government finally admits that it is not trying to protect children but instead effect social control? http://t.co/5j86BFB1 # .@picotludique @glynmoody Funny how "Linux with a Java appserver" is now the model for both Enterprise & Phone, but not LAMP middle-tier # @Ashpolt You should try Wyre Piddle, mate. # @glynmoody Wonder if…