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AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison | Threat Level | Wired.com # But surely here in the UK we are safe? #techcity? #siliconroundabout?
Andrew Auernheimer, 26, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was found guilty last November in federal court in New Jersey of one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization after he and a colleague created a program to collect information on iPad owners that had been exposed by a security
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Royal Charter or Star Chamber For Stars? | Wild Webmink #leveson #blog #chillingeffects
Of course, the proposals have no regard for this meshed world of creator-consumers. All the thinking revolves around Big Media, so there’s no representation for me or you in the regulatory body it creates, nor accommodation for the realities of the meshed society we inhabit. By including the new meshed world of creator-consumer citizens into
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… and calls on the Government to impose sanctions on Twitter until it agrees to fully co-operate with the UK authorities…
Say what you like about Galloway – if you are happy to risk doing so – but where he leads in thinking, others are likely to follow in only slightly watered-down ways. TWITTER AND THE DETECTION OF CRIME Session: 2012-13 Date tabled: 14.03.2013 Primary sponsor: Galloway, George That this House notes that Twitter is now
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Leveson’s liberal friends bring shame upon the left | Nick Cohen | The Observer
This is necessary reading: Leveson’s liberal friends bring shame upon the left | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer. There is nothing wrong with an arbitration service to settle disputes about contentious speech. But a compulsory arbitration service is an oxymoron. It is state licensing of publishing. Leveson wants that but never
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Dangerous Minds | Needling the Nazis: The subversive cross-stitching of Major Alexis Casdagli
Casdagli spent long hours working on his cross-stitching and between 1941 and 1945, he created a series of subversive samplers, in which Casdagli had hidden, around the Swastikas and Hammer & Sickles, a series of messages in Morse Code, which read: “God Save The King” “Fuck Hitler” via Dangerous Minds | Needling the Nazis: The
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Stoya on the Pitfalls of Heteronormativity and Monogamy | VICE United States #MUSTREAD
I’ve never read anything by Stoya that is not literate, intelligent, well thought-out, well balanced and worth reading; this one in particular for anyone struggling to deal with the diversity of others; I’d also go so far as to call this one “almost work safe”: Stoya on the Pitfalls of Heteronormativity and Monogamy | VICE
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Spy Chief Says Little Danger of Cyber ‘Pearl Harbor’ in Next Two Years | Wired # OMG COMMON SENSE IS BREAKING OUT ALL OVER
Contrary to much of the fear-mongering that has been spreading through the nation’s capital on cybersecurity matters lately, the director of national intelligence bucked that trend on Tuesday when he told a senate committee that there was little chance of a major cyberattack against critical infrastructure in the next two years. DNI James Clapper was