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Twitter Updates for 2011-05-22
#earthquake on #Christmas island. The #rapture people are going to go ape. God has a sense of humour / get out clause, now. # 2x double espressos from Bar Italia, and I'm home from #OpenTech and very very awake. Actually, I don't mind. Good day π #
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Twitter Updates for 2011-05-21
The _right_ way to manage software piracy http://bit.ly/lhGf4N – HT @adriana872 # …and while we're on the topic of piracy http://bit.ly/lhGf4N # in case you missed it # I know I shouldn't, but I am just rolling on the floor laughing #wikileaks #assange humour is recognition http://bit.ly/ifBu5a # Does #LinkedIn have a "Block & Report"…
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The meaning of “metrication”?
Simon Waters calls me out for my posting on the “metrication of security”: Metrication or Mensuration? I’m reminded of the audit folk who thought one of my previous employers should create a single measure of performance, which would create a new synthetic number lumping together other numbers that already existed, being an organisation full of…
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“Apple malware is a foreign country…” (at Computerworld)
“Apple malware is a foreign country…” Apple malware is a foreign country… …they do things differently there Picture this: some monstrous creature out of a fairy tale arrives at your house, knocks at the door, is let in, and abducts your wife away to the circus. What do you do? Well, if you’re PCWorld or…
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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 #…
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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,…
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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? # >…
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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…
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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…
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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? π # All these PS3 arriving cheap on Ebay due to the PSN outage; can they mostly be rooted for cryptography research? Or not? # @JackGavigan…
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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! π # New: "Metricating (Cyber) Security" @computerworlduk #unscrewingsecurity #security http://bit.ly/lMZVcO # New: "Metricating (Cyber) Security" http://bit.ly/mH1d65 # For anyone…
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“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