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Zero Dark Thirty – A Review
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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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