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Millions of #Barclays card users exposed to #fraud – #contactless #pickpockets # HT @bensummers
Card readers that are now being built in as standard to mobile phones can be adapted to access data from these cards. Working with a mobile phone security company, Channel 4 News managed to take data with just one swipe, and then use that data to purchase multiple goods online. This means that it would
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Maybe it’s coincidence but for the first time I noticed #homebrew eqpt at #Tesco; #alcohol pricing
I’ve no idea whether they’ve been stocking it for ages or whether this is something new, but putting on my security-geek hat and thinking: somebody is trying to stop me getting at cheap alcohol, what do I do? The answers arrive as: spend money anyway and get into debt debase lemonade with blackmarket vodka /
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“#LibDems custodiet ipsos custodes?” (http://goo.gl/uqB5o at Computerworld) #ccdp #imp #libdem #orgcon
The Liberal Democrats are watching our watchmen? LibDems custodiet ipsos custodes? The Home Office wants to log with whom you communicate, wherever and however, just in case you’re naughty – but the Liberal Democrats object… It’s been a good few months for surveillance, its practitioners and its supply industry – barnstorming industry conferences, massive media
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Twitter Updates for 2012-03-23
: Invisible Tree Is Invisible #basingstoke http://t.co/arYSlsnJ # : Household Visitor: Large Wasp or Small Hornet? http://t.co/zzbWNYG2 #
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Twitter Updates for 2012-03-21
: #TorProject releases cute "Join The Network" YouTube video for #Tor #security #privacy #ec2 #cloudcamp http://t.co/bmjBhl4r # “1 Gender 1 Motor (Safety First, Honour Now)” – Malaysian Campaign says No to mixed Motorcycle Pillion passengers http://t.co/lXhnNNzc # : TIL in defiance of US Corporate Management Guidance that Gorillas may weigh as little as 400lbs. http://t.co/GCvxWM9C
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TIL that the NHS is the world’s fifth biggest employer. Not the third.
After two armies, McDonalds and Walmart: BBC News – Which is the world’s biggest employer?. Now look at the countries sized per-capita represented by those organisations: 3 USA 1 China 3 USA 3 USA (or is McDonalds global?) 22 UK 1 China 1 China 2 India 2 India 1 China Spot the odd one out;
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An apple tree in Winchfield Station Car Park hasn’t yet dropped its apples from last year. Looks bizarre.
It’s quite surreal, especially close-up.
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TIL in defiance of US Corporate Management Guidance that Gorillas may weigh as little as 400lbs.
Capturing 400-pound gorilla that bit zookeeper after escape the ‘scariest thing’ SWAT leader has ever done | News | National Post.
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#TorProject releases cute “Join The Network” YouTube video for #Tor #security #privacy #ec2 #cloudcamp
It’s part of Tor’s Join The Network Campaign to get more people using Tor on a more regular basis – and to promote the setting up of relays to help other people use Tor to regain anonymity and access to materials that their state governments might not want them to see… …including now the ability
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“1 Gender 1 Motor (Safety First, Honour Now)” – Malaysian Campaign says No to mixed-gender Motorcycle Pillion passengers
A Malaysian univerity’s student campaign to stop salacious carrying of your significant other on motorbikes. other links HT a friend who I’ll cite if permitted to do so.