alecm
alecm
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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-22

    #tweetdeck on android is very broken. If you don't read it often enough, backlog of unread tweets makes it choke # Just had a really good experience with "Footprint Cars" http://t.co/IGriHGX for taxi services in the Farnborough/Fleet area 01252 844844 # I am really rather pleased with this photo: http://t.co/beS3fEJ # Caspar Bowden's birthday –…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-19

    @chrisgerhard So if the kids fly the coop, there is more room for bicycles ? # My friend @donna_williams : "Getting off ya tits – my experience with mastectomy" http://t.co/KjvMNJt #epic #perspective # @chrisgerhard At least it's not over 9000 πŸ™‚ # abj v nz natevyl erzvaqrq bs shpxjvg sevraqf jub jnagrq gb fgbc gjb…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-18

    What's the Linux eqvt of IP Strict Destination Multihoming? If multihomed machine recvs packet for interface A on interface B, it's dropped? # @jemimah_knight It does look a bit swish. If you want the standalone observatory pretty videos: http://t.co/R8koihU # /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter # thank you everyone πŸ™‚ # @hal_pomeranz Oh, bother. So hybridise it with ipchains…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-17

    RT @lauraanngill: Reading: Home to a social media crackdown? via @bbctech http://ow.ly/649P8 # excellent piece by @BBCRoryCJ # Dunno what I've been missing, but with piles of greengages, strawberries, yoghourt, sweet peppers & corn on the cob, I've found it. # @jemimah_knight Sure, Astronomy sounds sexy until it's 3am, there's nothing to eat but Mars…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-16

    Apparently when the British (English?) travel abroad, they take #ukriots with them: http://t.co/eF6po7P #sad # .@ashward123 I hope so – it would make me marginally depressed about humanity, re: "troublemakers appeared to be mainly Italian and French" # I now have Gingerbread on my S2. Shouldn't i have Gtalk video? # @DrJennyWoods you need a…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-15

    Re-watching the 1979 #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy before the upcoming movie abridges it to death. # @DrJennyWoods It's fun – did it a few weeks ago. Also hit the London Review Of Books cafe for cake. Really. # @DrJennyWoods LRB = favoured pitstop. They don't do Flat White as a matter of policy, but aside from that the…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-14

    Surbiton, where the rest of the world lives. # @lauraanngill If you're posting straight afterwards, by my estimate it lasted 16 hours? # 2001: "My God! It's full of steers!" #favouriteMovieAsACowboyMovie # Star Wars Ep IV – A New Hope: [no modifications necessary] #favouriteMovieAsACowboyMovie # Epic Must Read http://t.co/CVZF5PP #python #twitter #satire #ukriots @tom_watson #…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-13

    Peter Day / @BBCRadio4 "In Business" is in @TechHub interviewing folk; I swear the man should have read for Jackanory #favouriteunclevoice # Whoever redesigned #GoogleCalendar evidently only tested it on a large screen. On a MacBookAir 1/3rd of screen is unscrollable titlebar # @j0ni There is a Classic Look setting #

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-12

    Since when is there a cat TLD ? http://nyan.cat/ # @LouiseMensch send the H Sec to LINX in London and get them to find the big red switch marked 'Twitter' and flip it. Problem solved. #not # Rehabilit. Woot. #bbcqt # @mjrobbins because they did something against the law πŸ˜› # RT @darkmewolf Blaming social…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-11

    new personal password standard: 14 character alphanumeric; have migrated all the key accounts, need to review a bunch more. # @lolunix just got one too. # .@metadaddy Previous pws were generated from output of trad crypt() – 13 char b64; going 14-b62 gives me 41x keyspace boost & easier typing # Is there actually any…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-08-10

    #londonriots #cuttheirgooliesoff #notthenineoclocknews #sameoldsameold # Someone please tell me when the UK adopted US-style 15/25MPH road signs? @bbcnews #londonriots #hoax ? http://twitpic.com/63g6ax # . @jimfinnis @mmusante @cherryblack @DrJennyWoods OK – I stand corrected – they are Croydon tram signs. # Key #DefCon takeaway – one of the security goons carried a pedometer, racked up 68…

  • “Riot” (at Computerworld)

    “Riot” Riot … and Communication This evening at a barnstormingly good Reading Geek Night I was chatting with a somewhat older “ICT” chap and told him that I do security. We spoke of privacy, we spoke of secrecy, and the subsequent conversation went somewhat like this: …read more, or comment at Unscrewing Security