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So @BoingBoing has apparently gone puerile and forgotten the bigger picture /cc @doctorow
I like Boing-Boing, I’ve read it for years. I’ve met Cory several times as part of my work to help the Open Rights Group. I am generally sympathetic to a lot of the posts which are posted there. I like the blog. So yesterday there was something in the BoingBoing twitterfeed – a Disney Winnie-the-Pooh,
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Quote of the Day:
Person A, quoting Mark Twain: “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” Person B: “In 2013, I think egress bandwidth may trump ink.”
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Muffett’s Personal Opinion on the Cyber Volunteer Force
A friend of mine asked me about the UK’s mooted Cybersecurity “volunteer” force; this is approximately how I responded: The Cyber-Force thing is simultaneously scary, tragic and amusing; Iain Lobban – Director of GCHQ – has been heard to lament that they cannot afford to pay for geeks: www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-security/gchq-boss-complains-of-cyber-brain-drain-34212 …that essentially they can’t compete with
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The cost of UK Cybercrime was not £27bn – Hansard
Told you so… Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Labour) Let us look at cyber-statistics. In answer to my parliamentary question, the Minister put the cost of cybercrime at £27 billion, but that turns out to be a 2010 “guestimate” from defence company Detica. The National Audit Office misused Cambridge university figures, managing to confuse
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Have logged this with @Jawbone about a bug with Big Jambox; let’s see what they do.
Hi Guys! I am running a software-updated 11-inch, Mid 2011 MacBook Air and using my Big Jambox. For reference I am a Unix system programmer and developer with 25 years of experience, so if you want to talk to me using quite long technical words, I am very happy. Long story short: I have paired
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I am still trying to work out what happened to the Guardian’s followup Clegg article
So Googling for the relevant phrase yields this: Mousing over the “Nick Clegg queries…” link at the top yields the link illustrated at the bottom; but when you click through to Nicholas Watt’s article it does not use the word “intent” or any other of the relevant text. I am trying to establish whether
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Apparently the Deputy PM thinks Anti-Terrorism Legislation is fairly used to retrieve/destroy classified data #Miranda
Interesting. Nick Clegg’s recent (friday evening) posting in the Guardian has been amended, saying: This article was amended at 21.05 BST for legal reasons Why would that be? Well a blogger notes: Deleted line from Clegg Guardian article: "The intent behind detaining Miranda was the same: to retrieve or destroy classified information." — Craig Mason
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A simple rebuttal to @cguitton’s attempt to trash Tor Hidden Services /cc @torproject
There’s this paper by this guy at KCL. That he’s posted it on Dropbox is both relevant and ironic. In it, and in his Twitter feed, he argues essentially that Tor is OK-ish, but promotes anonymity – which he sees as “bad” – and Tor Hidden Services are intolerable and should “no longer be developed”
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New Marmite ad is magnificent, especially the pixellated dog
Shame about the stupidity.
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2010: ThorpeGlen Maintains the Worlds Largest Social Network
Just in case it ever vanishes, a memory from archive.org; Thorpe Glen were a spinoff of a spinoff of BT and were subsequently bought-out – I forget by whom; their website lies idle; but be aware that they existed back then. ThorpeGlen Maintains the Worlds Largest Social Network Date published: 6th July, 2010 Technology innovation enables dynamic
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Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes London Transport Poster
It’s mentioned in many places on the web, but it turns out that this fabulously Orwellian poster from several years ago: …is available as a hi-res PDF at WhatDoTheyKnow, the result of a FOIA. My irony meter is rather strained by this discovery.