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by Alec Muffett

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  • Company selling #CookieLaw Tool reminds us there is still zombie legislation /cc @TheCookieCrunch

    2013/02/01 09:48:58 GMT

    Via a comment on my blog: These posts about the end of the cookie law are spreading too much mis-information. What we now have is a new level of certainty as to how to comply I was led to this example of regulation-led market distortion: The change, which will be welcomed by many, came as

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    openrightsgroup politics and law social networking
  • “Kastor” / Alessi on Behance # MUST WANT PENCIL SHARPENER

    2013/02/01 08:44:34 GMT

    "Kastor" / Alessi on Behance. If only I used pencils…

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    fun
  • This Wikipedia page needs an “Unprofessional Bodies” section:

    2013/02/01 08:34:44 GMT

    UK Cyber Security Community From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Cyber Security (or Information Assurance) community in the UK is diverse, with many stakeholders groups contributing to support the UK Cyber Security Strategy. The following is a list of some of these stakeholders. Contents Trade Associations and Industry Groups Government Professional Bodies Academic Community References

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    miscellaneous ranting politics and law security
  • Dropsafe Quote of the Day

    2013/02/01 08:22:43 GMT

    Personally, I still think that a statement to the effect of “you are prohibited from knowing something, on grounds purely involving your age” would qualify as a conspiracy theory, were it not entirely true. Dave Walker, in the comments of this blog. See also his thoughts on user interfaces for kids normal people.

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    miscellaneous ranting openrightsgroup politics and law
  • Two killjoy researchers from Cambridge doubt whether quantum cryptography can be regarded as ‘provably secure’ #guesswho

    2013/02/01 08:12:46 GMT

    Quantum crypto still not proven, claim Cambridge experts Two killjoy researchers from the University of Cambridge have cast doubt on whether quantum cryptography can be regarded as ‘provably secure’ – and are asking whether today’s quantum computing experimentation is demonstrating classical rather than quantum effects. Computer scientists Ross Anderson and Robert Brady have published their

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    miscellaneous ranting security
  • If you seek insight into how the Government perceives the public aspect of ‘cybersecurity’, this is the answer

    2013/01/31 18:59:57 GMT

    TheyWorkForYou Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Labour) To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent assessment his Department has made of the cyber security of mobile devices.  Chloe Smith (Norwich North, Conservative) We have considered cyber threats in relation to mobile, smart phones, tablets and other mobile ICT equipment as outlined in

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    politics and law security
  • Death of the #CookieLaw – Muffett’s Conspiracy Theory

    2013/01/31 14:59:59 GMT

    Inspired by this snippet: …of that infographic on the original blogpost, I am honestly left wondering whether the whole thing was a conscious experiment by someone in Government to see whether it would ever be feasible to regulate systems and network administration and software architecture? In other words: an experiment to establish whether anyone would

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    censorship and interception politics and law security
  • The stupid cookie law is dead at last – “exactly what websites were doing in 2009, except in a bigger font”

    2013/01/31 14:23:40 GMT

    The organisation responsible for policing the UK cookie law has just announced that they will stop asking users for permission to set cookies on their own website. In other words: The Information Commissioner’s Office – who for brevity I’ll call Fickle the Clown –  says they’re doing this “so that we can get reliable information to make our website better”. They’ve changed their

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    networking politics and law social networking software
  • Whom do I know who is attending #FOSDEM? I’d like to link interesting people together…

    2013/01/30 17:30:26 GMT

    this —^

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    miscellaneous ranting
  • How a WAF works

    2013/01/30 12:23:40 GMT

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI#t=0m35s

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    security
  • APOD: 2013 January 30 – Full Moon Silhouettes #astronomy #video #mustwatch #pretty

    2013/01/30 08:15:15 GMT

    Real time, not faked, not shopped. This is what it is like to watch the Earth turn. Via APOD: 2013 January 30 – Full Moon Silhouettes.

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    computing
  • $ more ~/scripts/fillproc

    2013/01/29 12:54:07 GMT

    $ more ~/scripts/fillproc #!/bin/sh -c exit 0

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    software
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