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#Oracle and the SPARC T5 processor: Larry seems to have actually paid attention #vindicated
Labeled Dave – dude: two L’s or three? – pointed me back at Larryland: SPARC T5 Deep Dive – An interview with Oracle’s Rick Hetherington: Q: What about the security features in the T5? A: The team takes security very seriously. Each core on T5 has an encryption engine that will accelerate all of the…
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British Cybersalary Clippings
Something about this just does not strike me as a joined-up strategy. Also my first job, as a university systems programmer, with sparse qualifications, paid about £16,000. That was in 1988. “Cyber Specials” – HomeOffice (current) The Home Office, which received £63m under the programme, will lead the work in the Strategy on tackling cyber…
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OLPC makes self-taught strides forward in Ethiopia # GOOD READ /ht @mjj122
http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php “We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He’d never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were…
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ORG London October Podcast: Dominique Lazanski on “Should the UN take over the Internet” /cc @openrightsgroup
An upcoming meeting of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Dubai in December is widely tipped – and denied – as being the kickoff of a international power-grab for governance and control over the Internet. Some are positioning it as an attempt by the ITU to regain some of its otherwise shrinking remit and power,…
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Unified theory of Cthulhu # includes white paper on gravitational distortions and madness ; HT @jimfinnis
In 1928, the late Francis Wayland Thurston published a scandalous manuscript in purport of warning the world of a global conspiracy of occultists. Among the documents he gathered to support his thesis was the personal account of a sailor by the name of Gustaf Johansen, describing an encounter with an extraordinary island. Johansen`s descriptions of…
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BBC News – Cold Calling: The victim who fought back – and won # #PPI scams beware
Back in July, Mr Herman answered a call from an overseas call centre inviting him to make a PPI claim, he decided to stay on the line. He answered the caller’s questions until he was eventually passed through to a UK operation, called PPI Claimline, and told them he wanted to be taken off their…
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Royal Society journals open access # Going to be JSTOR & @aaronsw all over again, but British? HT @geoffarnold @openrightsgroup
Compare: Royal Society journals open access – The Panda’s Thumb. With http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-07/20/swartz-arrest?page=all
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TIL Encryption systems are (or were) *heavy* – really heavy. Must have been all those One-Time Pads.
…and that’s why terrorists could snoop Predator video feeds: There were reasons for this. The original Predator, just 27 feet long, was little more than a scaled-up model plane with an 85-horsepower engine. It had a payload of just half a ton for all its fuel, cameras and radios. And encryption systems can be heavy. (Big…
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Rethinking the Computer at 80 – NYTimes.com #PGN # MUST READ FOR ALL SECURITY GEEKS /ht @fanf
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Many people cite Albert Einstein’s aphorism “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Only a handful, however, have had the opportunity to discuss the concept with the physicist over breakfast. One of those is Peter G. Neumann, now an 80-year-old computer scientist at SRI International, a pioneering…
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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…