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A little old, but interesting. I stumbled across this on Flickr: ATM fraud in action at Tesco Created by bowbrick. I helped to pull this entirely convincing card skimming false front from an ATM at Tesco in Radlett. Its appearance was perfect in every way – we sussed it out purely because it looked different.

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Darren Moffat has been crying-out for someone to create this diagram: linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_%28terminology%29

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I have no idea how to explain this web page, from which I have received several dozen hits in the past couple of weeks: http://www.banic-manager.lunarpages.com/~system7/passwordc.html Authors: alex muffett – cracked password program author (lib’l?) brian hatch of Hacking Exposed (liberal?) not yet not yet I remember (and have commented upon) apparent attempts by some companies

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Then: wikipedia Background U.S. law distinguishes between two types of action figures for determining tariffs: dolls, which are defined to include human figures, and toys, which include “nonhuman creatures”. Because duties on dolls were higher than on toys, Marvel Comics subsidiary Toy Biz argued before the U.S. Court of International Trade, that their action figures

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Independent Sir Clive Sinclair is about to take to the roads again, two decades after his electric tricycle the C5 flopped so spectacularly. The Cambridge inventor will usher in what he describes as a new era in personal transport next month when he unveils his latest product – the world’s lightest portable bike. Weighing in

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Engadget Generally, when someone makes a teddy bear-themed gadget, his/her intention is to overwhelm bystanders with cuteness. But whoever created this little guy, whose head has to be removed in order to access the internal USB drive, must have watched one too many Tim Burton movies. No word on how much it holds or if

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Welcome to the sorts of things which we security geeks do to our own blog access logs when you’re not looking :- Light Blue Touchpaper On and off for the past two years, I have been investigating anti-counterfeiting measures in banknotes, in particular the Counterfeit Detection Systems (CDS). At the request of the Central Banks

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www.jackiedanicki.com Alan Bushell, a South African gentleman who was sitting next to me and is a veteran of the technology world, piped up and said exactly what needed to be said. To paraphrase: In his experience, the way you work with inventive people is to make space around them, break all the rules for them,

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/fashion/sundaystyles/18ze.html After reading it, I strongly suspect that the writer is trying really hard, but does not quite entirely “get it”. I don’t think that Ze is trying to be an “entertainer”, for starters… (Another fine link c/o Rob Diamond.)

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Dear Alec Thank you once again for all your assistance and participation during the Blogs & Social Media Forum. Attached is the evaluation form that was completed by most attending delegates on the day. This includes your individual rating for your presentation. You were voted top speaker of the day – well done!! Please let

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BBC News There has been a wider resentment in Germany that a US brewery has the exclusive rights in a country which prides itself on the quality of its beer and has very strict laws governing its composition. I wonder what they could be implying?

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Steve Elliott and Cynthia Cauley – married, and both working at Sun – popped round for an inpromptu star-party. Steve brought his f/12 Meade 12.5cm ETX Mak-Cass whilst I supplied the Swedish mosquito repellant (thanks Martin! – it also works on British bugs) plus a 25cm/10″ LX200 SCT with JMI NGF-S motorised focuser, and a

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