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Cyber-security: The digital arms trade | The Economist # It’s shit like this which will hurt Full Disclosure
IT IS a type of software sometimes described as “absolute power” or “God”. Small wonder its sales are growing. Packets of computer code, known as “exploits”, allow hackers to infiltrate or even control computers running software in which a design flaw, called a “vulnerability”, has been discovered. Criminal and, to a lesser extent, terror groups
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BBC News – Saudi Arabia ‘threatens Skype ban’ # TWIST: #interception breaks the #privacy of the #Hijab
Strange bedfellows… Encrypted messaging services such as Skype, Viber and WhatsApp could be blocked in Saudi Arabia, the telecommunications regulator there is reported to have warned. It is demanding a means to monitor such applications, but Saudis say that would seriously inhibit their communications. Saudi newspapers are reporting that the companies behind the applications have
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“LENA! LAUNCH A WORM!” – the best bit of the #Deloitte “#Cyber #Security Evolved” Campaign
As stated previously: WORST EPISODE OF SPOOKS. EVAR. …but we still love it for the embarrassing cyber wrongness of it all…
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Python speed optimization in the real world
What worked, ultimately, was finding operations that have instruction costs O(n**2) in the number of commits and squashing them. At this point a shout-out goes to Julien “FrnchFrgg” Rivaud, a very capable hacker trying to use reposurgeon for some work on the Blender repository. He got interested in the speed problem (the Blender repo is
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“Petty treason” – things that were “worse than murder” – Wikipedia
It’s all about society… The element of betrayal is the reason why this crime was considered worse than an ordinary murder; medieval and post-medieval society rested on a framework in which each person had his or her appointed place and such murders were seen as threatening this framework. Many people had somebody subordinate to them
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Intra-Christian Envy | Giles Fraser | Comment is free | The Guardian
Justin Welby is the theological product of Holy Trinity Brompton, the Old Etonian-run church next to Harrods that brought the world the Alpha Course and doubles up as a posh dating agency for west London singles. They are brilliant at PR and have pots of money. And if Christianity is all about success, then you
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Mysterious mini door found in Golden Gate Park | Richmond SF Blog
Mysterious mini door found in Golden Gate Park | Richmond SF Blog. via
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Letters: Botched draft that threatens the blogosphere | Media | The Guardian #guardian
Extract: The government has defined a “relevant publisher” for the purposes of press regulation in a way that seeks to draft campaign groups and community-run websites covering neighbourhood planning applications and local council affairs into a regulator designed for the Guardian, Sun and Daily Mail. Even the smallest of websites will be threatened with the