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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The man in charge of archiving and maintaining electronic copies of Norway’s most important historical documents is dead and so is access to those archives.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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well i am here in san jose. wheeeeeeeeeee… i am in the hotel, having been out for sushi with colleagues, plus a vendor who was a nice chap, even if we did have fun trying to cram into his saab 9000 aero with integral boat-mast and boom running the length of the car from trunk/boot

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well i am here in san jose. wheeeeeeeeeee… i am in the hotel, having been out for sushi with brad and jason and a chap from nortel/alteon who i had not met before, but who was a nice chap, even if we did have fun trying to cram into his saab 9000 aero with integral

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For those who are interested, I will be at Santa Clara campus, for most of next week, and will be staying at the Hyatt in San Jose. For fellow attendees: it appears that people are arranging all manner of official dinners and stuff for the Technology Leadership Council which I am visiting next week. I

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this is a test of a slightly cleaned-up suite of blog scripts… two people have prodded me so-far, saying that they want to start-up blogs of their own, so it is almost inevitable that they’ll want to have a go with my code, sometime…

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hooray.

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this is the current state of the GMP restaurant; three hundred people huddled in one end, watching TV, leaving the rest vacant: almost bizzarely, the audience is more than 60% female by my count – this is not meant as a commentary upon women being bizzare for watching football, but instead (my hypothesis) a result

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Remember http://onestop.sfbay/security/weblog-2002-05.shtml#20020520203234 ? See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2030000/2030722.stm

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http://www.brunching.com/features/diagrams.html

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