• Twitter Updates for 2011-05-17

    yoda squirrel http://bit.ly/jy6ecc # RT @caitlinmoran: It's the 21st anniversary of Jim Henson's death today. I sometimes think I'd like him back more than The Beatles. # Annoyed that now OBL is dead we've gone back to IRA terrorism; I was rather hoping that the rubbish bins would be replaced in Waterloo. # Everybody who

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-16

    Charlie's been at the Strongbow & is currently trumpeting his watering can like a hunting horn. Herds of wildebeest are stampeding en route # A friend has XP Dell laptop needing HD replacement; I need to backup a XP installation for restore to a new HD. Suggest free/FOSS tool plz? # Yay for Twitter. Sounds

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-15

    The perils of Dogs and Roombas: http://bit.ly/9QgzjG # @jemimah_knight I'm just wondering if he kept the roomba. The cleanup would be … vile. # @tpenta How old are you? 😛 # All these PS3 arriving cheap on Ebay due to the PSN outage; can they mostly be rooted for cryptography research? Or not? # @JackGavigan

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-14

    @ruskin147 How do we get to see BBC World in the UK? It's not on iPlayer? # @e3i5 Someone castigated me for calling that a Faraday Cage when it's not properly grounded; that said, it works! 🙂 # New: "Metricating (Cyber) Security" @computerworlduk #unscrewingsecurity #security http://bit.ly/lMZVcO # New: "Metricating (Cyber) Security" http://bit.ly/mH1d65 # For anyone

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  • “Metricating (Cyber) Security” (at Computerworld)

    “Metricating (Cyber) Security” Metricating (Cyber) Security What’s your yardstick? A forensics friend – Jon Care – pinged me on Instant Messenger last night: Him: Do you remember your “Corporate Security Index”, inspired by Dilbert? …read more, or comment at Unscrewing Security

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-13

    What _really_ to do when "life gives you lemons" [found on the web] http://twitpic.com/4wjnix # The day that there's a Facebook phishing message which does not USE CAPITAL LETTERS will be a VERY BAD ONE indeed. # @timcaynes firefox? # @loleg Demand better ones. From Sicily. # Laughing myself silly at something so intensely retro

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-12

    "Galaxy S II has taken 3 million pre-orders" – So where the hell are they? # @katerussell Depends what you're trying to achieve; security is not a matter of using the "right" protection, but that you use it at all. # @katerussell So it's ok to throw nostrums at the audience; but it's wiser to

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-11

    I scrolled back thru the @alaindebotton timeline; not once since Jul'09 has he @-replied to someone. Yet @stephenfry does so, weekly. Mmm. # From this I conclude that @alaindebotton is actually an epithet-generating "bot" – how the hell is he fit to comment on the net? # OK – @alaindebotton is _not_ a bot because

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  • Roundup of recent postings to Unscrewing Security

    Damn, I really need to set up some sort of auto-cross-posting facility… “Podcasts and Videos for the bored Security Geek” Podcasts and Videos for the bored Security Geek fill your brains with audio-visual security goodness “So, you go to the gym and work out, listening to security podcasts… ?” “Yes, yes I do.” “Like the

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-10

    @glynwintle You're so _nice_ # @_GarethWilliams Yes. Totally. Alas. # Chasing bunnies garden with Charlie – 2x escapees from next door… happy endings though, and Stalag Hase I will get a new perimeter fence # "The War On Information Access" @computerworlduk #unscrewingsecurity #security http://bit.ly/j7wgFV # @KinkyNinja You may be interested by http://bit.ly/j7wgFV # today i

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-09

    @AleXgTorres Yes. I'm rubbish. But it's great. # Zero for 93,000 – not a good human rights batting average – http://goo.gl/0sbDD # Woke to hear Anne McElvoy on "Broadcasting House" with @paddy_o_c today First, foggy thought: "Oh My God Peston's Had A Sex Change?" # @Shoegalsedgwick Yay for that. # Resurrecting my old 800MHz G4

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-05-08

    i wish I was surfing. I don't care how good I'm not at it, but I do. # BBC News: sex and coffee 'trigger stroke' – http://goo.gl/DSkZE # must not combine them, then… # Tandem Unicycle – needs more work: http://youtu.be/uQ85tupcdCI # Watching #BBCclick – William Beer of PWC talking about the PSN hack as

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