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The WSJ tweets: Debate on Hacker News: Is Firesheep a useful demonstration of security flaws or a dangerous hack? How can this be? Surely the WSJ know that the Internet ended in 1995 when SATAN was released? The Chronicle explains: Two things make SATAN different and more frightening than other security detection programs available, Bruestle

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Modern Business Risks: 1) Workers staying at home faking illness 2) Workers coming to work and spreading illness. Decide what you want more. # "The feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian is celebrated on October 25" – I'd rather be in bed, but I have to be elsewhere. # @cthreeo3 I agree it's a

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@carriebish basic carpentry skills aren't hard to acquire… in reply to carriebish # Facebook Grammar Suckage: it should be "[NAME] _also_ commented on a post _in which you were tagged_" # November 1st is unofficial Talk Like Carl Sagan day http://on.fb.me/bQpa46 – May the entire… yuman race… participate. # @chris_bloke The Cos-moze is expanding: http://bit.ly/dzp1Wt

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#barcamplondon – 50 tickets sold out in 5 seconds # @maakusan ii have but one, hard fought. in reply to maakusan # Kitchen renovation album updated – new plasterwork http://bit.ly/dmfa7c # TopGear takes roadsters to Israel? http://bit.ly/cjygDf # http://bit.ly/bvnSEN – Why Single Girls Want to Meet European Men # MUST MUST WATCH. @bubbva especially. Plz

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@jackofkent re: #westskep biometrics talk, have found audio, are there slides to be found plz? # @jemimah_knight Spoof. I know someone who got the guy into video production. He makes a living off it now. in reply to jemimah_knight # @jemimah_knight read up on http://bit.ly/b3BK1b and judge for yourself. 🙂 in reply to jemimah_knight #

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Ah, for the days when hackers appeared in major syndicated cartoons: http://bit.ly/abfB0R # somebody had fun with this headline: http://bit.ly/c4eSY0 # I can't believe I only just found: "How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb?" http://goo.gl/kwx1 # Just had brunch with @adrianco & son femme at a nice French cafe in

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Most/all webcomics rollover at Midnight US/Pacific, 8am here. In some way that's a daily epoch for me. Odd to have a non-local time referent # @ear1grey Depends on the context. If it's nuclear, not good: http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/media/CCU_whattodo-schools.pdf in reply to ear1grey # Cambridge University: Open Source "Smart Card Detective" http://bit.ly/96EgBR – very cool. # Why, over

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New: "Home Secretary: Wanna Cyber?" #unscrewingsecurity @computerworlduk http://bit.ly/bXYe6F # New: Facebook asks: please identify the people in this picture http://bit.ly/alRhLf # Facebook expects you to know 71% of your Facebook friends by face. Unrealistic? http://bit.ly/8YjYDe # @SuperFrescoEasy If I sought easy removal I would use a backhoe. As it was I wanted removal of what

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ref this, paraphrasing, an anonymous source observed: With the current SYMC (Symantec) market cap of about $12.24b, for about $200 per capita the UK Government could buy Symantec outright; so a nationalised antivirus solution would pay for itself in about 4 years; alternately they could go begging to try and negotiate a site license for

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So I downloaded all[1] my data from Facebook, and as part of the security theatre for the download process it asked me to identify the people in a number of photographs of friends; it required something like 5 positive matches with 2 skip/denial/dunnos. It gave me one photo which contained nobody identifiable – fie upon

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