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by Alec Muffett

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  • How Aaron Kramer helped get me into Opera…

    2013/02/10 11:54:43 GMT

      …attached to a CD-set of the Pavarotti/Sutherland La Traviata. That was one of the nice things about Sun – most of the people were generous as well as nice…

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    music personal
  • Ryan Werber, CCIE #38168: “How I did the Starwars Traceroute” /ht @RyanWerber

    2013/02/10 08:47:08 GMT

    Link

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    fun networking
  • Future Identities: Changing identities in the UK: the next 10 years #bis #internet #identity

    2013/02/10 08:43:32 GMT

    Link; I have not yet had time to read it but upon skimming it seems almost a sane reflection of how things actually work.  What therefore worries me is that a politician is therefore going to try to stick a stake in the ground to “leverage” this… This Report provides an important opportunity for the

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    identity politics and law
  • Egypt Court Orders Block on YouTube Over Anti-Islam Video – NYTimes.com

    2013/02/09 23:05:45 GMT

    CAIRO (AP) — A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that set off deadly riots last year, but the ruling can be appealed and, based on precedent, may not be enforced. Judge Hassouna Tawfiq described the video

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    censorship and interception politics and law social networking
  • When CCIEs Get Bored

    2013/02/09 14:35:55 GMT

    It would be better pasted into a wider window, sorry. $ traceroute 216.81.59.173 traceroute to 216.81.59.173 (216.81.59.173), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 router (192.168.200.1) 0.538 ms 0.341 ms 0.309 ms 2 upstream (-) 22.733 ms 22.833 ms 22.119 ms 3 ge-2-1-0-119.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk (62.3.84.209) 75.835 ms 68.930 ms 23.084 ms 4 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.lon1.he.net (195.66.224.21) 23.018 ms

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    fun networking
  • Getting Keyboard Focus on Password Entry for OSX Login without a Mouse

    2013/02/09 10:28:35 GMT

    You boot a Mac. It presents you with a list of user icons. There is no password box. What do you do when you have no mouse/trackpad? Answer: At login there is a list of names (if multiple people are set to use the computer) and guest, type the first letter of the name that

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    software
  • Backtrack 5r3: Capturing Voice from Remote Mic & Converting it to Searchable Text # the security services have FOSS competition

    2013/02/07 17:34:10 GMT

    Reminder: we used to laugh at Linux as a “toy” platform. HT @beuchelt Okay, I introduced the cool capability of using Metasploit to capture remote voice via mic and then converting it into keyword searchable text in the last post. As promised, we will take a closer look at setting it up to work on

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    fun security software
  • I just made Black Soup

    2013/02/07 16:09:06 GMT

    mug puy lentils large handful black wild rice large handful dried button mushrooms large handful dried black fungus whole dried lemon rosemary pinch salt guesstimate water into saucepan. simmer/cook. blend. enrich with butter.

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    food
  • Cyber Security. Evolved. | YouTube #nope #nope #doesntworklikethis @deloitteuk #watrudoin @deloitteuk #stahp

    2013/02/07 14:43:49 GMT

    As one colleague phrased it: WORST EPISODE OF SPOOKS. EVAR. …and another one sums it up: This (via @alecmuffett) is just so embarrassing: bit.ly/12q6xH0 – is this really what @deloitteuk think cybersecurity is? Grow up FFS — Simon White (@Simon_M_White) February 5, 2013 The discussion thread was heavy with “LAUNCH A WORM” jokes shortly after

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    security
  • Alternative Zero Dark Thirty Review

    2013/02/07 14:08:17 GMT

    …a bit like Thelma and Louise, but Louise gets whacked half way through, and then it turns into a revenge movie by proxy…

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    art miscellaneous ranting
  • The Internet Is Speech, The Internet Is Books. The Attorney General Is Wrong. #rant /cc @guy_herbert

    2013/02/07 11:04:34 GMT

    Last night I lampooned the Attorney General’s recent statements, and this morning the good and noble Guy Herbert picked me up on it: @alecmuffett That misrepresents what he said. There is a real problem here: how to manage fair trial. Internet creates new difficulties. — Guy Herbert (@guy_herbert) February 7, 2013 Guy is absolutely correct

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    miscellaneous ranting openrightsgroup politics and law
  • Zero Dark Thirty – A Review

    2013/02/07 09:59:07 GMT

    Skinny, petite girl lives empty, violent, narrowly moral life on behalf of her state pivoting around her (eventually zealous) drive to capture a very bad man and thereby validate herself. It happens. Then she realises the “empty” bit, and that the future will possibly be filled with nightmares of torture rather than Sex and the

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    art fun
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