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Thought for today: APT is a racist term – #security #apt /cc @kevinmitnick
From discussion with friends, an extract: If the definition or example that somehow APT is a ‘newer, better and prolonged method of attack and stealth to obtain the crown jewels’ then what was Kevin Mitnick’s attack on Sun Microsystems? It’s because Mitnick was an American – not “a Red” – and the net was not
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Medals for Drone Warriors Canceled – NYTimes.com
Under pressure, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has canceled the creation of a new military medal for drone operators and cyberwarriors, instead ordering military leaders to develop a pin or device that would be attached to existing medals or ribbons. Mr. Hagel’s predecessor, Leon E. Panetta, created the Distinguished Warfare Medal for service members like drone
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What the Web used to look like: Santa Cruz Operation: SCO
Before they became a byword for evil; note “SUPER HIGHWAY DESIGN”:
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What the Web used to look like: Digital Equipment Corporation: DEC
A boring website. We demanded that Sun do something better than this.
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What the Web used to look like: Silicon Graphics “SILICON SURF”
It was this webpage – SGI’s entry to the Web – which caused the Sun-internal Web-evangelists (including myself, to some extent) to go berserk and demand the creation of a Sun.COM website. I seem to remember Vasanthan being the eventual prime mover… ?
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What the Web used to look like: Dept of Computing, Imperial College
Note: All the WWW servers in the UK
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What the Web used to look like: Back when I wrote/ran search engines for Sun
Kiwi (FTP archive search to Sun internally) and Ben-Nevis (AltaVista ripoff) – two of Sun’s first-ever search engines, internally facing, lashed up in Perl and with (eventually) CGI interfaces; the graphics are from a public presentation on “What the Web Does” that I did, sometime around (I think?) 1995.
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Why I can no longer take British Nuclear Deterrence seriously … #trident
So occasionally – not often enough – I go for tea with the most excellent Dr Lorna Arnold: Lorna Arnold is a historian who has written a number of books connected with the British nuclear weapons programmes. As the second official historian of the British nuclear weapons programmes, she has had access to previously secret documents and personally knew
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A Short Translation from Bullshit to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ /ht @shaver
1 Why is Chrome spawning a new browser engine? The WebKit maintainers wouldn’t let us attack Apple directly, by changing WebKit in ways that would make it perform badly on OS X and iOS. Because they share a rendering engine, developer effort to ensure Chrome compatibility currently benefits Apple platforms for free. To prevent this,
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Scarfolk Council: Thought-Detector Vans, 1973 / “Is your mummy who she says she is?” # oh my, this is perfect; /ht @jimfinnis
Thought-Detector vans, 1973 Many will remember the TV detector vans that stalked suburban Britain in the 1970s. Scarfolk was chosen to take part in a government scheme that tested the latest technology in thought detection, particularly because of the events surrounding “The Tim Seven” in 1972 (See here and here for more details). The scheme