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Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » I’m from the Government and I’m here to help #security #openstandards
Ross Anderson writes: (caution: links exist in original) Two years ago, Hyoungshick Kim, Jun Ho Huh and I wrote a paper On the Security of Internet banking in South Korea in which we discussed an IT security policy that had gone horribly wrong. The Government of Korea had tried in 1998 to secure electronic commerce
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A few years ago the Dell 2407WFP was a must-have geek monitor; what’s its modern equivalent?
I have one of the aforementioned, but now I want to pair it – in portrait mode – with a new landscape monitor for a dual-head system. Desired resolution 2560×1600. Suggestions?
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-13
: Each morning is now spent imagining – reconstructing – Roomba's Big Adventure #roomba http://t.co/DHpSruIK # @DrJennyWoods Found a posh cheese shop in Bath yesterday; also a French bistro # : The Oatmeal on The C-word http://t.co/ZqQUZeGs # : TIL that Sweden banned "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" for being unrealistic http://t.co/D40JP3WR #
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TIL that Sweden banned “Skippy the Bush Kangaroo” for being unrealistic
The series was dubbed into Spanish in Mexico, where it is known as Skippy el canguro, and has been distributed to most Spanish-speaking countries, including Cuba and Spain, where it became very popular. The series crossed the Iron Curtain and was aired in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s, and is still being broadcast in
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Each morning is now spent imagining – reconstructing – Roomba’s Big Adventure #roomba
First, find your Roomba. Today it had gotten through the slightly-ajar lounge door, cleaned the exposed carpet and then wedged itself trying to climb over/eat the bellows. Overall: it works. The house is cleaner and I can walk around barefoot without that ‘gritty’ feeling underfoot. My bet is that if it does 80% of the
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“DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship” – PirateBay upbraids some-bunch-of-Anonymous-people
Via BoingBoing: Seems like some random Anonymous groups have run a DDOS campaign against Virgin media and some other sites. We’d like to be clear about our view on this: We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-12
: Honey Hunters in Nepal http://t.co/t0hZLjZ8 # : How a Bicycle is Made (1945) on Vimeo http://t.co/ybBfxfVh # : Case for snooping powers backfires for Theresa May – Telegraph http://t.co/xtCmgo81 # : Brussels wants to impose classification of Internet content http://t.co/gFFmP9M1 # : If You Meet a Censor, Ask Them This One Question http://t.co/MI3l5sKl #
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Iran’s Internet Filters Filter Out Leader’s Screed Against Getting Around Filters | Techdirt
I give it what, four years before this happens in the UK? Well this would be funny if it weren’t so sad and didn’t involve mass censorship. Iran has been getting a lot of attention lately for its plans to increase its internet filtering — and potentially even set up its own “safe” (read: heavily
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If You Meet a Censor, Ask Them This One Question
Via @glynmoody – an extract: Via Twitter, Andrew Grossman brought to my attention this terrifically interesting interview with a Kuwaiti censor that appeared in the Kuwait Times (“Read No Evil – Senior Censor Defends Work, Denies Playing Big Brother“). In the interview, the censor, Dalal Al-Mutairi, head of the Foreign Books Department at the Ministry of
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Brussels wants to impose classification of Internet content
Do you ever get the feeling that the Government tends to miscategorise the Internet as a form of Television? Via Google Translate: In an official communication, the European Commission asked the telecoms and content to work very quickly to the implementation of a classification of content published on the Internet, depending on the age of