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Germany pushes for an end to massive fines for hijacked Wi-Fi | ZDNet /fao @openrightsgroup @bbw1984 @coadec
The tide is turning? Wi-Fi network owners in Germany look set to get an easier legal ride when their WLANs are used by criminals. Read this The secret life of white-space radio Read more Owners of wireless networks in Germany are currently in a dangerous situation if they don’t protect password-protect their WLANs, or find
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-08
Citizens not Suspects: Human Rights & the Snooper's Charter, Rachel Robinson, LIBERTY. Sep 17th, 7pm http://t.co/0TrC0OC5 / @openrightsgroup # UPDATE: ORG-London Pub Meet, September 17th, Shoreditch. Rachel Robinson of LIBERTY on the Snooper's Charter http://t.co/Q3zzT2XO #ccdp # @shortblue #comedything #creativememeuse #firsttogetdibsonanewtag inverse of http://t.co/GUd3aAQY # @TimMontgomerie As opposed to politicians who tout policy and dread
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It’s quite bizarre …
…so many of my friends are taking up astronomy and some of the have taken to dying their hair various shades of red. Have I really been cool all this time – or are they just losing it?
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Internet ‘snooper’s charter’ could jeopardise national security, ISPs warn – Telegraph # At last industry comes out swinging
The London Internet Exchange (Linx), which represents service providers, said the Government’s controversial surveillance proposals represent a “dramatic shift” in the balance between individuals’ privacy and the power of the state. It said forcing them to keep details of all website visits and mobile phone calls would in effect create a communications data profile for
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Portuguese men-of-war sightings on Cornish beaches # Arr! No, wait, this is bad: Lethal collectivist jellyfish.
Portuguese men-of-war have been washed up on beaches in Cornwall according to council officials. There have been sightings of 13 men-of-war at Portheras Cove in west Cornwall and others at Summerleaze and Widemouth beaches in north Cornwall. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said sightings were on the increase. The Portuguese man-of-war is not a jellyfish
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-07
@owenblacker My impression of Woking is that it largely consists of a staircase. # @BenLaurie Macroblogging: http://t.co/doHqPYYP 😛 /cc @zooko # Defence by @CompassionUK of "personal commitment to the Christian faith" employment requirements: http://t.co/R67UMGmd /cc @Joe_Henegan # .@Joe_Henegan Alas, Joe, removing tweets does not really work. There's this thing called the Google Cache, and then
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Wow: @CompassionUK’s Statement of Faith. Deserves sharing:
From here, my italics: Compassion’s Statement of Faith Compassion adheres to the statement of faith established by the World Evangelical Alliance. We believe in: The Holy Scriptures, as originally given by God: divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy and the supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct. One God, eternally existent in three persons,
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-06
@petermacrobert nope, but could pop over for drinks this evening if you are… # @petermacrobert guess where I am # @petermacrobert TechHipster # @s3cb0t Relevant, perhaps, to denials: http://t.co/Lvwb9i4G # @petermacrobert @konrader you mean? # RT @tommorris: New rule: if @glynwintle has to put on a tie, what you are proposing is probably a really
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UPEK Fingerprint Readers: a Huge Security Hole | Advanced Password Cracking – Insight
http://blog.crackpassword.com/2012/08/upek-fingerprint-readers-a-huge-security-hole/ Via the inestimable and wonderful @glynwintle
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NCFTA no longer eschews PII ? /cc @kashhill @kimzetter
So the NCFTA is a nonprofit organisation which exists to share non-personally-identifiable-information (non-PII) with US Government police and security services: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/26/the-fbi-workaround-for-private-companies-to-share-information-with-law-enforcement-without-cispa/ NCFTA director Ron Plesco lists off his organization’s purpose rotely: “We do information sharing with three goals: ID the cybercrime threat, share toward mitigation, share toward neutralization of threat.” As part of a non-profit,
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-05
MUSTREAD How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards; #NeilGaiman #DrWho | Can we call Censorbots “Daleks”? http://t.co/wJE80kBe # @JanetCSIRT ELOSTCONTEXT ? # Can we please ensure that all upcoming Party Conference speeches are backed by rabidly-copyrighted music? http://t.co/wJE80kBe # @JanetCSIRT Yes. Link is meant to be there. # @JanetCSIRT Underlying theory of experiment is
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Radio 4 PM Porn Blocking Interview
Six minutes. It speaks for itself. “Porn is a public health issue, like drugs, or seatbelts”. This text will be replaced