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The privacy of our medical records is being sold off #RossAnderson # At the Guardian and at LightBlueTouchpaper
Extract: Medical records are difficult, because they often contain publicly known information mixed in with private stuff: think of Gordon Brown’s eye operations. In a famous case, Harvard professor Latanya Sweeney managed to identify the medical record of the governor of Massachusetts from “anonymous” records released by the Veterans’ Administration. For years, officials did not
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Raspberry Pi Robots in Reading! #raspberrypi #rdggeek
http://rasathus.blogspot.co.uk/
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-28
@darrenhayman Don't sweat it, I just discovered your website and I'm sure the art will win. With luck more folk will find you. Do you tour? # @darrenhayman Alas 🙁 – I've given up buying plastic discs and stick to YouTube & Spotify nowadays, but I want to get out to more gigs # @darrenhayman
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BBC News – Voice of Sesame Street Count von Count dies aged 78
🙁 Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer and voice of Sesame Street’s Count von Count, has died aged 78. For more than 40 years, Nelson worked on numerous projects featuring Jim Henson’s Muppets, including the TV series Fraggle Rock. BBC News – Voice of Sesame Street Count von Count dies aged 78.
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Leading ‘Ethical’ TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT | TorrentFreak /cc @openrightsgroup
The MPAA-funded anti-piracy group behind the prosecution of UK streaming links site SurfTheChannel has claimed another prominent victim. UKNova, which has been in existence for almost a decade, has a strict ‘ethical’ policy which forbids users from uploading any material which is available to buy, but that didn’t stop the Federation Against Copyright Theft targeting
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If you like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, go listen to this and buy the album #Lido /cc @darrenhayman
Darren Hayman’s Lido – he’s doing a digital release, and (I think) a physical one too that you can order online. Lido by Darren Hayman He’s also (entirely understandably) fretting that someone’s torrented the album already: So depressing that a torrent of Lido is up already. We’ve sold pretty much every copy ourselves so this
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QOTD: cyberwar == involuntary remote system administration
From Ranum in 2008, a reminder: The cost factor To attack a network, you have to have effective management control over it (unless you’re just DOSsing it, in which case your attack may be deflectable) Therefore: cyberwar == involuntary remote system administration So, we need, what, a combat version of UniCenter? See where this is
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“Cyber Situational Awareness: We want the benefit of hindsight & we want it now!” # How Cyberpeople Think
I don’t know whether to be excited or horrified: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/cyber-situational-awareness-we-want-the-benefit-of.ashx Cyber Situational Awareness: We want the benefit of hindsight & we want it now! The MoD Cyber & Influence research programme (in collaboration with wider government) seeks to enable freedom of manoeuvre across all operating environments by finding ways to defend all of MoD’s digital
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-27
@guy_herbert Its alue has reached the tipping point, tho'; the book is only 1/3rd the size of a few years ago. The other 2/3rds didn't die. # Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation – The Atlantic #MUSTWATCH http://t.co/dXDYLXkQ # @pjakma Did he fail any and if so how many?