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54 years in space and so far we’ve only got two minibus-sized probes to leave the solar system
It would be sad if they’re the only footprint humanity leaves on the universe at large. Technology – Rebecca J. Rosen – Get Ready, Because Voyager I Is *This Close* to Leaving Our Solar System – The Atlantic.
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Law Enforcement and Retrogressive Pressures upon Technology
Yesterday ORG / Privacy International / Big Brother Watch / Julian Huppert held a meeting at the Houses of Parliament to, um, “celebrate” the release of the new draft communications bill. I raised a question, perhaps clumsily, which Julian fielded as “advice”, and which was something along the lines of the following, which I’ll expand
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Big Wooden Ball Project on Vimeo # #epic #want
Big Wooden Ball Project on Vimeo on Vimeo Big Wooden Ball Project from Mike Leuis on Vimeo.
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In case you’ve missed it you need to read http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/ about school dinners, and then…
In case you’ve missed it you need to read http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/ about school dinners, and then perhaps move over to http://paulclarke.com/photography/blog/food-for-thought/ for some broader perspective. Still, if it’s correct prima facie, it sucks.
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qotd: “Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat”
Robert A. Heinlein – Wikiquote.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-06-15
@tqbf either, actually. Either short dictionary or chunk of candidate hashes. Depends what the hacker is trying to achieve. # Um @bbcr4today The Internet Is Not A Telephone # Also @bbcr4today : how much will this British Internet-wide CCTV-alike watching everyone *cost* – esp if it is bypassable ? # : "internet mail headers are
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Introducing the #CCDP-compliant “SpookBox 5000” for the implementation of the #SnoopersCharter
Here’s an interesting thought for all of us on CCDP-day: It’s obvious to geeks that the equipment which performs CCDP-mandated logging will have to be: a synthesis of hardware and software reasonably standardised reasonably secure (doubtless the Home Secretary will say “very secure”) permit secret-but-authenticated access to the police, security services and council dog-catchers to
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Password Cracking in a Nutshell
In response to my posting last night, Tom Ptacek kindly sent a few lovely tweets: @AlecMuffett @briankrebs That’s a nuance that I wasn’t trying to capture, Alec, but I obviously agree with you. — Thomas H. Ptacek (@tqbf) June 14, 2012 @AlecMuffett And: you mean a bite size piece of candidate password guesses (ie, “password”
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“internet mail headers are not unlike giblets” – brian reid; attrib. paul vixie?
Google the above quote and you get Vixie: …unless you dig back into Google Groups from 1991: …and Brian is an elder god.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-06-14
Today is one of those days that probably has a G&T at the far end of it. # Somewhere out there is a G&T with my name on it. # I blame Eric Allman. http://t.co/Oo7qHlwE # @JonnyHeavey who's playing ? # : When I wrote Crack I could make three password guesses per second; @BrianKrebs