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Nonsense paper accepted by mathematics journal – /ht @geoffarnold
I approve of this kind of pentesting; keeps the journals on their toes. There are several spoofs about at the moment. Each of these sentences [of the paper] contains mathematical nouns linked by the verbs mathematicians use, but the sentences scarcely connect with each other. The paper was created using Mathgen, an online random maths
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#decyber 2.0 – Cybersecurity Hype-removal and Translation, now enhanced and with bookmarklet!
decyber: taking the fear out of cybersecurity short link: http://bit.ly/decyber [link fixed] Turns this: The Foreign Secretary was accompanied on his visit by the director of Britain’s top secret listening station GCHQ, Iain Lobban, who has previously warned of the growing threat to the United Kingdom posed by cyber attacks. In July 2011 Lobban made
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decyber: taking the fear out of cybersecurity – http://bit.ly/decyber
Inspired by this, I present: decyber: taking the fear out of cybersecurity. …which works like this: Original: The risks from cyberspace (including the internet, wider telecommunications networks and computer systems) have been identified by the Government as a high priority risk. The UK is facing an ongoing, persistent threat from other states, terrorists and criminals
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This is what happens when you elide ‘cyber’ from Military / Government vocabulary /ht @andrewsmhay
Some basic rules: cyberspace – is replaced by: the Internet cybersecurity – is replaced by: Internet security identity theft – is replaced by: fraud cyber (standalone) – is replaced by: Internet remaining ‘cyber’ gets deleted These are what I have used for this; I’ll play with the parser a bit and see if I can
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Bodyform viral video provides the world with an explanation for Colin Firth – #bodyform #sexism /ht @caitlinmoran
So I woke up to Gene Spafford retweeting the fact that there’s this video: …which Jezebel needlessly spoilers by describing: Last week, a guy named Richard Neill posted a long, funny comment on UK maxipad maker Bodyform’s Facebook page about how the company had lied to him through their advertising campaigns over the years, leading
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I had no idea the #FedEx #Furniture Guy had been DMCA’ed into oblivion…
FedEx furniture is the artistic creation of computer programmer Jose Avila, III. In June, 2005, Avila created a website, Fedexfurniture.com, to display photographs of a couch, bed, dining room table, and desk that he had constructed out of cartons obtained from overnight shipping giant FedEx Corporation (FedEx). FedEx attorneys used the takedown provisions of the
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As Inflation Rages In Iran, Bitcoin Software Not Available – Forbes
If severe currency devaluation and disruptive Internet cyber-attacks were not enough, the regular people of Iran have had access blocked to certain open source software sites for downloading applications such as Bitcoin. The 20-month-old blockade hasn’t been instigated by Iran’s mullahs but by the U.S.-led embargo which prohibits certain persons from receiving services via open
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Newsflash: NSA says that absolute security models exist. Oh, wait, that was in 1998. /ht @Cryptomeorg
Cryptome just tweeted this ancient essay: PDF: The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments Peter A. Loscocco, Stephen D. Smalley, Patrick A. Muckelbauer, Ruth C. Taylor, S. Jeff Turner, John F. Farrell tos@epoch.ncsc.mil National Security Agency Although public awareness of the need for security in computing systems is growing
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“Parks and Rec” Quote
We don’t get Parks and Rec in the UK that I am aware of, but an American friend introduced me to a few episodes so I am aware of the characters. One character, Ron Swanson, is a particular American archetype – and the actor who plays him, Nick Offerman, seems not too far away in