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Attorney General: “We desperately need to retain ignorant jurors. X-factor viewers, perhaps.”
Well, almost… Grieve continued: “The internet is a haystack of material, scattered with the odd prejudicial needle, as it were. Trial by Google allows a juror to locate the haystack, find the needle, pull it out and ascribe significance to it that it simply would never have had otherwise. It takes a minor risk and
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LightBlueTouchpaper blog knocked temporarily offline by demand for free Ross Anderson book # 224Gb in 1 day
After the book announcement I got a bunch of reports that LightBlueTouchpaper was down (example) – so I pinged Ross: We got hammered since my book went free with 224Gb of downloads, or about a quarter of a million chapter views. I got a wigging from sysadmin. Probably a transient fault. Who says that security is a niche
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“internet means terrorists could be slipping through the net” # this is what passes for humour in MI5 circles #pun #geddit?
MI5 chief: internet means terrorists could be slipping through the net – Telegraph.
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Idea / Suggestion for new SaaS: double-blind presentation submission for upcoming events, battle sexism /HT @lanyrd
So the topic of sexism in selection of IT conference papers is in the news a lot, recently. No women on panels, no women presenting, “the organisers should check their presentation acceptance policy”; there’s nothing I can write about it which has not been written elsewhere, often better. Short of affirmative action and the other
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Is #Zorpia the reason I am getting Google “Your account is under attack” warnings? I think so…
This afternoon I received this: It’s quite clever; I actually know someone with the name (almost) who has not been in touch for a long time, so following standard procedure I opened up a vanilla stateless browser and carefully copied the “View Private Message” link over to it. Paste, Click, and I am presented with
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Warning: We believe that attackers backed by certain states may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.
Sigh. A little more info would be helpful as to what has triggered this… Your account could be at risk of state-sponsored attacks About the security threat If you were directed to this page from a warning displayed above your Gmail inbox, we believe that state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or
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50 USC Ch. 7: INTERFERENCE WITH HOMING PIGEONS OWNED BY UNITED STATES
50 USC Ch. 7: INTERFERENCE WITH HOMING PIGEONS OWNED BY UNITED STATES. A law they actually repealed?
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Ross Anderson’s “Security Engineering” – Now FREE to Download and Read
“Security Engineering” now available free online February 4th, 2013 at 17:50 UTC by Ross Anderson I’m delighted to announce that my book Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems is now available free online in its entirety. You may download any or all of the chapters from the book’s web page. I’ve
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Web Security: Blacklists, Whitelists and WAFs – An essay in TWO parts at the @Surevine blog
Web Security: Blacklists, Whitelists and WAFs Web Security: Blacklists, Whitelists and WAFs Part II
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The case for a national ID card – The Washington Post /ht @owenblacker
Sigh. THE UNITED STATES has invested tens of billions of dollars in the past decade alone to foil illegal immigration — tightening the border, accelerating deportations, deputizing local police — while doing precious little to stop employers from hiring undocumented immigrants. That is fixable — by means of a universal national identity card — and
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Looks like the Church of England just found wisdom in the words of a child #finalfee
via Tumblr, being passed around various Christian blogs: I have just done the most amazing and scary thing I will ever do in my life. So I was in church this morning, and in the prayers, our minister had prayed against gay marriage, and hoped that marriage will not be redefined in the UK, and