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New: "Security Events To Watch: 44Con London Security Conference" @computerworlduk #dc4420 #security http://bit.ly/jDaINq # Breaking Rumour: @LulzSec may have UK Census Data http://bit.ly/ioe6SI – NO CONFIRMATION yet on the "official" Twitter feed though. # The #LulzSec #ukcensus pastebin file looks awfully like the graphic from a recent PirateBay leak http://bit.ly/kf0SxG ; may be hoax? #…

“Security Events To Watch: 44Con London Security Conference” Security Events To Watch: 44Con London Security Conference Bowler Hat Briefings? I’ve long thought that the UK needed a real security conference; for years we’ve had the booth-bunny fest that is Infosec where you get to see anti-virus pitchmen working the crowd like the guy at my…

Do any other greybeards get the sense that ICANN just decided that BITNET was the right model for Internet naming? Actually, I support it… # Anything that #ICANN does that gets us away from the notion of hierarchy (and thus scarcity and control) is good. Ref: http://bit.ly/hfSkXx # @JamesFirth artifical scarcity is the leverage du…

New: How to update Emacs on OSX to GNU Emacs 23.3.1 with almost zero pain http://bit.ly/jStrKu # yay – i have written my first chrome extension, and it works. tweak a couple of usability things and then publish. # javascript is weird: it's so familiar, and then so very very _not_ # WTF: Google want…

Available from http://www.crypticide.com/alecm/chrome/bangthrubookmarks/. As the description says: BangThruBookmarks What it’s for… In the mornings, with my breakfast, I like to read webcomics, news and geeksites; I used to have just a folder-full of links which I could Open All In Tabs and then go make coffee, come back and close the tabs one-by-one until my…

1) Go to http://emacsformacosx.com/ and download Emacs 23.3; install it. 2) For commandline use in Terminal, create the following script in your ~/bin or somewhere at the top of your $PATH: $ more bin/emacs #!/bin/sh EMACS_APP=/Applications/Emacs.app # <- UPDATE THIS IF NEEDED EMACS=$EMACS_APP/Contents/MacOS/Emacs export EMACS exec $EMACS “$@” exit 1 3) Run it as normal.…

@His_Grace inefficacy ? you mean that people taking the pill undergo further procedures and/or carry to full term ? # One for the @surevine team http://yfrog.com/gy23mlwj # £3.90 for a pint of Directors ? # Village-wide power cut # For thee third time this week, no I am not Canadian. Sigh. #

British student puts British website on British servers, links to 3rd-party filesharing sites? Extradite to USA! http://tgr.ph/iIiKyL # RT @beng: See, I'm not crazy. Chrome 12 de-obfuscates javascript. http://bit.ly/kQxPzR # woo! fantastic! #fulldisclosure & better #security # @shortblue I don't think it's exactly what they do, but they might have insight: http://raffle.it/ # @chrisridd Yes,…

For anyone else who didn't get the #pennyarcade strip this morning: http://bit.ly/lPuc5T # http://bit.ly/kLSMu6 "NYPD Officer Stopped Cyclist For Wearing Skirt" – you can be "ticketed" for acts which are clearly not illegal in NYC? # There's a lot of reasons for outrage, but I'm most horrified at the concept of ticketing people at whim:…

#xkcd gnuinfo bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah <thud> # @bubbva practical aids: 1) tweetdeck 2) twitter lists 3) HAPPY BIRTHDAY (for 30 minutes from now!) # @dgwbirch if they have an uprising of any sort the government will know about it real quick. # @lizhenry does "outlier" also include "more competent than average" ? 🙂 # Someone please tell…

this can go wrong in so many ways… http://bit.ly/kEyiLe # longbike: 18.8 miles, av 10.4 mph, max 43.0 mph. Much happier now. # HELP: Some years ago an agency intercepted someone's SMTP traffic (MITM proxy) & was discovered when it started generating bounces? Remind? # @gravelkeeper someone at his service provider (or similar) level, or…