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Shami Chakrabarti on #Marr covers Phone-Sucking, #CCDP & #SnoopersCharter in the paper review
On iPlayer, sorry; no apparent way to embed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01nm3th/?t=15m57s HT: @DrJennyWoods
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Top Facebook executive Joanna Shields resigns to head up London’s Tech City – Telegraph
Oh dear, the pols are trying to herd the cats. Top Facebook executive Joanna Shields resigns to head up London’s Tech City – Telegraph. Joanna Shields, one of Facebook’s most senior executives, is to quit the social media giant and join David Cameron’s project to create a competitor to California’s Silicon Valley in East London.
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“Scottish” Voices, on Devolution and Independence, on Reddit
From Reddit: IAm Humza Yousaf MSP, Minister for External Affairs and International Development in the Scottish Government, AMA Hi, I’m Humza Yousaf and I’ll be here to answer your questions live from SNP Conference in Perth at 17:30 BST (12:30 ET). This afternoon will see First Minister Alex Salmond deliver his speech to conference from
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Surprised at Antinous, moderator of #BoingBoing forums, coming down as pro-censorship
From this thread on Twitter censorship of German fascists, blocking only other Germans from seeing their Tweets: Quote: Navin_Johnson: Disgusting speech is best fought with more speech, not less. Antinous: We have more access to information about fascist groups than ever before and fascism is on the rise. Your statement is an optimistic meme and
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Observations on translating #cybersecurity documents into English
I’ve been working on decyber for giggles – and tuning it a bit; a new feature (just gone in) is a show changes checkbox – at which point something clearly leaps out. Journalists tend to stick to basic cyberterminology and just overuse it – which triggers the rewrite rules that replace each cybercliche with something
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BBC News – Readers’ best passive-aggressive wi-fi names
Of course my favourite is Free Public WiFi. A recent feature on the rise of passive-aggressive wi-fi names prompted a huge response from readers. Here are a few of them. My friend Lola from Waddinxveen in The Netherlands is an ex US marine and finds it funny to scare her friends down her street with
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Hartley Wintney: not only old people made from tweed & pocket lint who are waiting to die, but also: Tory Lingerie.
Conservative conference to be spiced up by lingerie entrepreneur and Betty Blues Loungerie, based in Hartley Wintney, near Basingstoke, proved to be a great success at the Conservative Party Conference Betty Blues Facebook Page / Main Page I blame Costa for this decline in standards. Marvellous. 🙂
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securityreactions.tumblr.com is great but it’s not as good as the real thing /ht @glynwintle @sec_reactions
A little light pentesting after a morning’s garden clearance chez-moi, and Glyn checks out a box: And this is what happened shortly afterwards.
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Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other – Telegraph
The Blackadder and Mr Bean star attacked the “creeping culture of censoriousness” which has resulted in the arrest of a Christian preacher, a critic of Scientology and even a student making a joke, it was reported. He criticised the “new intolerance” as he called for part of it the Public Order Act to be repealed,
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decyber: “The National Security Agency has the most advanced capabilities for illegal hacking and defense in the world”
Unintentional, scary but possibly true comedy from running this through decyber: The White House is now developing an executive order that would not go so far, but it still wants more powerful laws. Even inside the administration, Hayden said, the Defense Department has defined the internet as a warfare domain that it must “dominate,” while