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Cops outraged after NYU class requires students to plot a terrorist attack | Fox News #fairandbalanced
Especially note the “He was blasted to hell in Yemen last year in a CIA drone strike“. No editorialising there, then. Heavens forfend these folk ever attend a proper security conference, too. A New York University class on transnational terrorism is requiring students to “hypothetically plan a terrorist attack” — and shocked cops say the
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Tsunamis on Lake Geneva: Lake monsters | The Economist
IN 563AD a tsunami devastated Geneva. Two accounts of the disaster, one by Gregory of Tours and the other by Marius of Avenches, have survived. What caused the wave, and the extent of the damage that resulted, have been matters of conjecture for centuries. But over the past decade several groups of scientists have pieced
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Why making a call-centre worker say “poopsy-poo” will strengthen your security » The Privacy Surgeon # HT @owenblacker
Having become heartily sick of arguing the toss over who should provide information first I discussed the dilemma with a helpful call centre manager and we figured a solution. It turns out that nearly all call centre systems have a “special instructions” field that allows operators to add useful comments about calling times, payment instructions
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The first nuclear-propelled manmade object in space?
During the Pascal-B nuclear test, a heavy (900 kg) (approx 1,984 pounds) steel plate cap (a piece of armor plate) was blasted off the top of a test shaft at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 miles per second). Before the test, experimental designer Dr. Brownlee had performed a highly approximate calculation that
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This is what the 3D Inspection of www.whitehouse.gov/cybersecurity looks like
update: Tools > Web Developer > Inspect. Then hit 3D Click to embiggen. Note the floating elements top-right. And the highlighted blue element with its details in the toolbar at the bottom. This is going to be really useful…
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Oh My God How Did I Not Hear About Firefox 3D Page Inspector Until Now?
Been doing too much security and Chrome and not enough Mozilla hacking. Update: Tools > Web Developer > Inspect. Then hit 3D THIS:
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decyber-tools – tools to aid translation of cybersecurity hype to plain english – Google Project Hosting # source code FTW
decyber-tools – tools to aid translation of cybersecurity hype to plain english – Google Project Hosting See also the chrome extension.
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Decyber – An extension for Google Chrome. Removes most Cybersecurity hype with a single click.
Decyber: Rewriting Cybersecurity for Human Beings See also the original CGI version; they should produce the same results. Try it on www.whitehouse.gov/cybersecurity – install the extension, do a “Select All” and then right-click and pull down to “decyber this!”. Update: source code This morning I’d barely ever written Javascript. I now know how to walk
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Video: Cycle without lights in Amsterdam and the Cycle-Light Fairy may visit you…
Do the same in London and the taxis will squash you flat. Because they can.
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[exim-announce] Exim 4.80.1 Security Release # Laudable speed, clarity and process for handling a vulnerability.
I apologise for the impact of releasing this on a Friday. I do not consider there to be an acceptable alternative. This issue, which is known by the CVE ID of CVE-2012-5671, was found during internal code review of an area of the Exim codebase relevant to another issue, DKIM signing and verification, which has
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Can someone please explain to me where this new “trigger warning” meme has come from?
Example: NYPD officer planned to kidnap and eat women [trigger warning] – Boing Boing. …I think I get the concept, a sort of: “This may gross you out but it’s not traditional NSFW nor NSFL” However the phrase and annotation comes across either a bit nannyish and/or “consider yourself warned so don’t sue us if