alecm
alecm
@alecm@alecmuffett.com
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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-20

    I'd swear twitter is dropping some of my follow requests… follow people, then have to refollow them when next you see them… # "Not suspicious, but merely Canadian" – http://bit.ly/m06eXi # I just love the way this lady says "It's a natural phenomenon" at the 0:50-ish mark: http://bbc.in/jnwpx4 # insert illegal alien joke here #…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-19

    Listening to Peter Bazalgette talking about the NHS trying to draw line between information sharing and privacy # #bigtentuk Simon Davies: ICO has been week willed and vacillating for 20 years. # gah typos # @JackGavigan Front Right. # #bigtentuk Q: Simon: If all the world's Twitter users crowdsourced a database of photos of houses,…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-18

    @bengrubb So you report either the FacebookPhoto or SymantecBank stories, and the police arrest _you_ ? How does that work ? # And this week it's Linux running in a Javascript CPU emulator: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ # @bengrubb Let me guess – you reproduced the "hacked" shot in the article, therefore you're an evil hacker? # >…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-17

    yoda squirrel http://bit.ly/jy6ecc # RT @caitlinmoran: It's the 21st anniversary of Jim Henson's death today. I sometimes think I'd like him back more than The Beatles. # Annoyed that now OBL is dead we've gone back to IRA terrorism; I was rather hoping that the rubbish bins would be replaced in Waterloo. # Everybody who…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-16

    Charlie's been at the Strongbow & is currently trumpeting his watering can like a hunting horn. Herds of wildebeest are stampeding en route # A friend has XP Dell laptop needing HD replacement; I need to backup a XP installation for restore to a new HD. Suggest free/FOSS tool plz? # Yay for Twitter. Sounds…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-15

    The perils of Dogs and Roombas: http://bit.ly/9QgzjG # @jemimah_knight I'm just wondering if he kept the roomba. The cleanup would be … vile. # @tpenta How old are you? ๐Ÿ˜› # All these PS3 arriving cheap on Ebay due to the PSN outage; can they mostly be rooted for cryptography research? Or not? # @JackGavigan…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-14

    @ruskin147 How do we get to see BBC World in the UK? It's not on iPlayer? # @e3i5 Someone castigated me for calling that a Faraday Cage when it's not properly grounded; that said, it works! ๐Ÿ™‚ # New: "Metricating (Cyber) Security" @computerworlduk #unscrewingsecurity #security http://bit.ly/lMZVcO # New: "Metricating (Cyber) Security" http://bit.ly/mH1d65 # For anyone…

  • “Metricating (Cyber) Security” (at Computerworld)

    “Metricating (Cyber) Security” Metricating (Cyber) Security What’s your yardstick? A forensics friend – Jon Care – pinged me on Instant Messenger last night: Him: Do you remember your “Corporate Security Index”, inspired by Dilbert? …read more, or comment at Unscrewing Security

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-13

    What _really_ to do when "life gives you lemons" [found on the web] http://twitpic.com/4wjnix # The day that there's a Facebook phishing message which does not USE CAPITAL LETTERS will be a VERY BAD ONE indeed. # @timcaynes firefox? # @loleg Demand better ones. From Sicily. # Laughing myself silly at something so intensely retro…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-12

    "Galaxy S II has taken 3 million pre-orders" – So where the hell are they? # @katerussell Depends what you're trying to achieve; security is not a matter of using the "right" protection, but that you use it at all. # @katerussell So it's ok to throw nostrums at the audience; but it's wiser to…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-11

    I scrolled back thru the @alaindebotton timeline; not once since Jul'09 has he @-replied to someone. Yet @stephenfry does so, weekly. Mmm. # From this I conclude that @alaindebotton is actually an epithet-generating "bot" – how the hell is he fit to comment on the net? # OK – @alaindebotton is _not_ a bot because…

  • Roundup of recent postings to Unscrewing Security

    Damn, I really need to set up some sort of auto-cross-posting facility… “Podcasts and Videos for the bored Security Geek” Podcasts and Videos for the bored Security Geek fill your brains with audio-visual security goodness “So, you go to the gym and work out, listening to security podcasts… ?” “Yes, yes I do.” “Like the…