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Being wary of handing over personal details to websites isn’t ‘outrageous’ | @JoannaGeary | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk #CabinetOffice
Being wary of handing over personal details to websites isn’t ‘outrageous’ A Whitehall adviser has been slammed for telling people to make up data. But less anonymity doesn’t equal more security Poor Andy Smith. As a digital security adviser at the Cabinet Office, you’d think he’d be safe offering up a bit digital security advice
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Andy Smith of the #CabinetOffice is a Epic Fucking #Security Hero – #socialmedia #cyberbullying #dailyfail
I’ll keep this brief: Yesterday I attended the Parliament and Internet conference in Westminster. In one of the sessions a lady asked a question about why she had her identity used by fraudsters when so little of her personal information was on the internet. Video of the session is here – fast forward the slider
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New DSL modem / Vigor 120 – 18.23Mbps down, 1.00Mbps up
Really, the upload annoys me. I must have a good line, so something is capping that at precisely 1.00Mbps. It’s repeatable. Bloody nuisance. Also I have now got to work out how to rebuild my home DMZ. Formerly I bridged two ethernet ports together on my firewall to make a flat internet-facing network, and one
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How to make a security geek feel very old: #Factorisation, #DKIM and @DrZacharyHarris
So this afternoon I got forwarded: How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole So [Zach Harris] wondered if the e-mail might have been spoofed – something sent from a scammer to appear to come from the search giant. But when Harris examined the e-mail’s header information, it all seemed legitimate. Then
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Batch-saving multiple HTML / Web Pages to PDF
Earlier today I put out a plea: WANT: to get Chrome/Firefox/Safari to save a web page to PDF without invoking dialogue box / 3rd-party service. One-click or shellscript. — Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) October 23, 2012 …which (long story short) led to a bunch of suggestions none of which quite worked for me. A more succinct
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BBC News – More piracy sites faced with blocking as BPI contacts UK ISPs HT @openrightsgroup
The UK’s major internet service providers have been asked to block three more file-sharing websites, the BBC can reveal. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which acts on behalf of rights holders, wants ISPs to prevent access to Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents. The BPI alleges that the sites are illegally distributing music. The ISPs told
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We are ready: Bringing Somalia’s recovery online # and the UK Government worries about “digital divides”
It could be worse… Unlike Somalia’s thriving telecoms sector, where two decades of lawlessness, lack of regulation, and cut-throat competition for an increasingly mobile market have driven services up and prices to rock bottom (less than one cent per minute), internet in Mogadishu has been archaic. Dial-up is the cheapest option, at around USD$30 a
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BBC News – Somali pirates caught by message in a bottle – #really ?
OK, maybe this is real, I dunno, but tell me that it doesn’t sound like one of those implausible WWII cover-stories for some other third-party intelligence-gathering mechanism. About 620 miles from Somalia, with no means of phone or radio communication, they placed a message in a bottle and threw it out through a porthole into
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The maths that made Voyager possible #MUSTREAD #MUSTTV
This is where I will be tomorrow evening – I shall warm up the television and actually bother watching something live for once. This is what makes us human. Shame we don’t do more of it, but props to Felix for having a good stab at it. Although still lacking funding to extend its mission
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CoE Weddings: You can’t be gay but you can be nouveau-riche chavs /ht @Theosthinktank
From the babysnipping supporters at Theos we learn: The Church of England has set out radical plans to transform the way in which it conducts weddings. A package of reforms will modernise the marriage service, offering couples the chance to replace traditional aspects with personalised touches. It will give the go-ahead for glitzy “Posh and
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ASTRONOMY IN THE PUB – #AstroPub /ht @jimanning @gammidgy #puballthethings #sitp
Presumably Reading will be first? http://astropub.co.uk/about.php PUB ALL THE THINGS!
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In mug, 2tsp pure cocoa, 2tsp caramel syrup, Angostura bitters, fresh-ground black pepper. Add frothed hot milk.
Very good hot chocolate. BLend the other ingredients into a paste and add milk gradually. Adjust measures to taste.