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Hairdressers Registration (Amendment) #regulation #security #cybersecurity @openrightsgroup /ht @julianhuppert
Courtesy of cyberstalking Julian Huppert, I found this, do take a look at it: Hairdressers Registration (Amendment) — 30 Nov 2011 at 14:37 Julian Huppert MP, Cambridge voted with the majority (No). I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Hairdressers (Registration) Act 1964 to provide for
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What is a “Shavers Only” Electrical Outlet?
An Electrician Explains the Shaver Socket It’s very tempting to plug American devices into these sockets when traveling, especially when (as is so often the case for me) a suitable converter is unavailable. But should they be used for anything but shavers? After all, they are very clearly labeled. And what’s so special about shavers
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#StupidOrScam? I was just sent a link about the @hola_org VPN; the @torproject people will waste ages explaining what’s wrong with it
…so I might as well make a start to save them some bother. http://hola.org/faq.html – some snippets: Hola is building an overlay network which will change the way the Internet works – for the first time in 40 years. Our ultimate goal is to make the Internet 10x faster! By slowing it down with a
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Problems that British Gardeners never have to face: Crazy Tumbleweed Storm
via Crazy Tumbleweed Storm – YouTube.
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Analysis: “We must all take our cyber-security seriously” – Editorial, Observer / Guardian
DOUBLE WORD SCORE: Both cyber and we take security seriously Weirdly, I agree totally with this right up and until the last sentence of the last paragraph, hence why I quote it at length: We must all take our cyber-security seriously Editorial The Observer, Sunday 3 February 2013 It has been a fragile week for cyber-security,
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Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus
Just back from the village shops, where I bought a thoughtful ice-cream. Big thoughts. Small ice-cream. Walking back I looked up, and the sky tonight is blazing with stars; all I need is a winter night sky to be thirteen again, suffering insomnia and fairly convinced that with the impending death of Brezhnev I would
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Fuck me, #CCDP has already spent £405m pounds of its expected £1.8b budget /ht #CDB @openrightsgroup @julianhuppert
Quoth the men from the Ministry: In text: The Office of Security and Counter Terrorism has spent £405 million since May 2010 on the communications capabilities development programme under the current Government which is based on the premise that there will be collaborative relations with communications services providers who will be expected to retain relevant
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So Twitter got hacked; here’s the one bit of advice they didn’t hand out
On the Twitter Blog: As you may have read, there’s been a recent uptick in large-scale security attacks aimed at U.S. technology and media companies. Within the last two weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have chronicled breaches of their systems, and Apple and Mozilla have turned off Java by default in
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“Cyber War Will Not Take Place”: Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Rid: Books # DUE JUNE 2013 #MUSTREAD
Cyber War Will Not Take Place: Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Rid: Books ‘Cyber war is coming,’ announced a land- mark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the ‘fifth domain’ of war- fare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cyber war really
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Turn your browser into a notepad /ht @dogsbodyorg
Dan Benton Brilliant! Instant notepad by typing “data:text/html,<html contenteditable>” into your browser bar. Works. Probably bookmarkable. UPDATE: And I also just discovered that if you can inject <html contenteditable> into a webpage, you kill all the links on it. This could be useful…