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by Alec Muffett

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  • RSA Conference 2012 – Cyber War: You’re Doing it Wrong! – Marcus Ranum # MUSTWATCH #cybersecurity #cybercrime #cyberwar

    2013/01/04 23:05:42 GMT

    via RSA Conference 2012 — Cyber War: You’re Doing it Wrong! – Marcus Ranum – YouTube.

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    politics and law security
  • Watching the LibDems risk backpedalling into #CCDP /cc @markpack @julianhuppert @drjennywoods @glyndaviesmp @glynmoody @glynwintle

    2013/01/04 22:57:13 GMT

    So I ran into this report of a LibDem peer: Lib Dems must ‘grow up’ on Snooper’s Charter A Lib Dem peer has told his party it is time to “grow up” and support the Communications Data Bill. Lord Carlile of Berriew said there was a risk of the issue being turned into a “political

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    censorship and interception openrightsgroup politics and law security
  • Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated) #TechCrunch #Censorship

    2013/01/04 21:53:01 GMT

    Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government’s internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org. The blog reports that the change was made sometime between December 5 and December 8, 2012, with no official statement from Google to announce

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    censorship and interception openrightsgroup politics and law
  • BeetBox | Scott Made This #fun #music #raspberrypi

    2013/01/04 21:48:14 GMT

    BeetBox is a simple instrument that allows users to play drum beats by touching actual beets. It is powered by a Raspberry Pi with a capacitive touch sensor and an audio amplifier in a handmade wooden enclosure. via BeetBox | Scott Made This.

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    fun music
  • Watch This. Especially if you are Male and like Space Exploration. #Apollo #History

    2013/01/04 21:44:03 GMT

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    astronomy
  • Dear Lazyweb: Do I a) Buy a Dell Display b) Buy an Apple Thunderbolt Display c) Wait for an upgrade to the latter?

    2013/01/04 21:19:35 GMT

    Decisions, decisions. http://www.itproportal.com/hardware/displays/reviews/dell-ultrasharp-u2713hm-review/ http://www.itproportal.com/hardware/displays/reviews/dell-s2740l-review/ http://www.macworld.com/article/1162442/apples_thunderbolt_display_a_compelling_device_for_2011_macbook_air.html …or maybe there will be something huge and retina-like, real soon now? <hope/>  

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    hardware personal
  • Google Text-To-Speech, “Giraffe now praises the iPad”, quote-handling and why I think the bug occured

    2013/01/04 20:59:33 GMT

    So, this is real and it works: …and it afflicts the web version too: …and people are being creative with it: …and there’s an Android bug logged … except it’s not an Android bug, really. As you’ll read in the press, the wording comes from an interview on MacNN: Look at it from a programmer’s

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    fun software
  • God may forgive them, but the Evangelicals surely never shall …

    2013/01/04 17:13:57 GMT

    Church of England drops gay bishop opposition The Church of England has dropped its prohibition on gay clergy in civil partnerships becoming bishops. The announcement, from the Church’s House of Bishops, would allow gay clergy to become bishops if they promise to be celibate. Conservative evangelical Anglicans say they will fight the move in the

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    skeptics
  • Google Online Security Blog: Enhancing digital certificate security # here we go again #turktrust

    2013/01/03 23:59:06 GMT

    Late on December 24, Chrome detected and blocked an unauthorized digital certificate for the “*.google.com” domain. We investigated immediately and found the certificate was issued by an intermediate certificate authority (CA) linking back to TURKTRUST, a Turkish certificate authority. Intermediate CA certificates carry the full authority of the CA, so anyone who has one can

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    security
  • Critical National Infrastructure & #Cybersecurity: “…or you could just throw a couple of squirrels into a switching station”

    2013/01/03 16:11:56 GMT

    Reddit is seeing through the bullshit: (direct comment link) -1 point for imagery but +5 for grasp of the essentials. Bit worrying about the nuclear submarines but I’d be more worried about them running aground whilst the systems are down than a launch or anything like that… right? Remember: the whole thesis of Government Cybersecurity

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    security
  • List of Notable Cats – Wikipedia, of course – leads to “Unsinkable Sam”

    2013/01/03 07:30:00 GMT

    No, really: List of cats – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thence to: Unsinkable Sam Unsinkable Sam (also known as Oscar) was the nickname of a German ship’s cat who saw service in both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War, serving on board three vessels and surviving the sinking of all three.

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    fun
  • FactHacks [29c3] – YouTube

    2013/01/03 05:57:48 GMT

    @alecmuffett Namechecked? Me? djb is the rockstar here, not me. Apparently, having used a 768-bit PGP key in ~1995 is not noteworthy. 😉 — Solar Designer (@solardiz) January 2, 2013 Agreed. via FactHacks [29c3] – YouTube.

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    security software
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