Dropsafe

I’m right up there with Evgeny in Slate, until page 2: [ed: Context: Heap blamed, Media Blamed … ] But I don’t think that Heap’s deceptive advertising and the media’s poor watchdogging are the main culprits here. What made Haystack possible was the U.S. government’s urge to embrace the power of the Internet to democratize

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RT @bhareven: BREAKING NEWS: Pope to be Top Gear 'Star in A Reasonably Priced Car'! Will have time adjusted for heavier bullet proof windows # RT @chrisridd: @alecmuffett maybe [The Pope] is the new Stig? # If you can read code and you're a security geek, this is hilarious: http://bit.ly/c0IaKK # @ramtopsgrum So the ban

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"We Are Unitarian Jihad" http://bit.ly/91ZzSf – must read! # Definitely think i have some sort of cold brewing. Excuse to spend the day on the sofa with a duvet. # (ps: comprehensive hat-tip: i get a lot of my funny links from @bbart – he should post them himself more often) # Am horrified to

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The local care-home for the elderly have been junk-mailing me for years, inviting me to visit their luxuriant facilities and consider moving there. I have no idea why they do this since I am hopefully about 47 years away from needing their services, but they persist in this behaviour. They’ve just mailed me an invite

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A thought experiment; approximate sizes only. 3.5″ platter = 89mm surface area of a 89mm circle = 280 sqmm (square millimeters) surface area of 1″ spindle circle = 80 sqmm working surface area of platter = (280 – 80) * 2 sides = 400 sqmm So if you have a 200Gb hard disk with a

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I feel @aleksk #virtualrevolution & http://goo.gl/FMMV should shoulder modest responsibility for #haystack hype. uncriticaljournalism=#fail # Just putting to bed an article with @webmink regarding #haystack for ComputerWeekly ; 3 hours sleep. Blarg. # More details to come, but for the moment: http://www.greenlanesecurity.com/ # New: "Burning Haystack" at ComputerWeekly – by @alecmuffett & @webmink http://bit.ly/cj5DLF #

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@mala Since most security geeks have never been allowed to look, is it fixable or does the whole thing need deprecating? in reply to mala # @mala s/fixable/is there a way to get everyone running an improved update automatically/ ? in reply to mala # New: Remote Wipe: All Security Tools are Double Edged Swords

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Exchange “remote wipe” is a terrible, terrible bug At the same time, our intrepid off-hours emailing employee is finally replacing that old iPhone. He gets a Samsung Fascinate the first day it’s available, and of course sets it up for Exchange. Nothing seems amiss. A few hours later, the phone—his personal phone—shuts off while in

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NW Ireland Jobs: If you/friends are looking for DevMgr, OpsMgr, Sysadmin, & PHP Dev/Test roles in/nr Derry – I may have a lead. Ping me. # @mathiasbaert Try: Ctrl-U 5 Escape X hanoi <return> in reply to mathiasbaert # We are VMWare. We do not know how to display FAILURE. http://goo.gl/hjs0 # Hands up everyone

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What's the traditional way to get #subversion or #git to embed a current rev number into app code? Runtime build script? #sccs woz easy… # @bulletford I know; but I have need. Compare 'ffmpeg' which embeds the svn rev in the –version option in reply to bulletford # @hlangeveld that's a really interesting question; I

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USB Keys have now shrunk to fit the plug into which they fit: http://bit.ly/cj0QyF # New: Your Oven & Washing Machine will be Networked and the Data Protection Requirements will be horrible http://bit.ly/aaCUqG # Steam Engine taking on water at Winchfield: http://flic.kr/p/8zG3Se # @darrenmoffat It is pretty cool. One comes up and down that line

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