Dropsafe

Great dinner last night, enormous steak at some place called Birks (sic) with twenty of the other SunPS, ES, and other miscellaneous ESTC people, and that great hyperactive ferret of network love Dan tagged along too. I shall spare you from tales of the anguish of participating in focus groups – the team was great,

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If it quacks, it must be Trusted Solaris … – so, so apt.

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re: http://onestop.sfbay/security/weblog-2002-06.shtml#20020611135523 Hackers unlocking Norway’s history E-mail messages from more than 100 good Samaritans flooded the Ivar Aasen Center for Language and Culture starting Thursday afternoon after the organization called for aid in hacking into one of its own databases to which the password was lost, said a message posted to the center’s Web site

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:02:10 +0100 To: UKcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk From: Richard Clayton richard@highwayman.com Subject: Home Office RIP website The Home Office RIP website http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2002/draft/20022322.htm has today finally been updated to include a pointer to “The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Communications Data: Additional Public Authorities) Order 2002” (a mere 5 days after it came out) However,

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my hotel bed is deeply weird – lumpy and high on one side, and low and squishy on the other. i worked out that the low and squishy side is the one from which the TV is most easily visible, implying that (a) most people in hotels watch TV from ther bed, and (b) the

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…and i am starting to feel it. i’m gonna set my alarm when i get back to the hotel and try to watch the football on ESPN, and then do it all again, tomorrow. not sure how i am gonna fill this evening, though.

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it’s hot and sunny with temperatures around 100’F. so why am i in a conference room reading e-mail? 😎

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it’s hot and sunny with temperatures around 100’F. so why am i in a conference room reading e-mail? 😎

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From: Rob Evans <rhe@NOSC.JA.NET> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:04:42 BST Subject: Amendment to the RIP act… To: UK-SECURITY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Those with a political leaning (or an interest in privacy) might want to look at the newly updated STAND website: http://www.stand.org.uk/ In a nutshell, last year the RIP (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) Act was passed in

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time to wake up, and i have had nearly six hours sleep. from the experience of past trips, this is almost miraculous. it’s weird, though – no SMS, no mobile phone, no e-mail (mostly) – this would be fine when I am on holiday, but when i am meant to be working, i feel extremely

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time to wake up, and i have had nearly six hours sleep. from the experience of past trips, this is almost miraculous. it’s weird, though – no SMS, no mobile phone, no e-mail (mostly) – this would be fine when I am on holiday, but when i am meant to be working, i feel extremely

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The man in charge of archiving and maintaining electronic copies of Norway’s most important historical documents is dead and so is access to those archives. So the director of the Norwegian cultural center is pleading for hackers to help him crack the center’s password-protected database. URL: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52997,00.html

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