2013–2020
433 posts
2020 100
December 2020
- FOOD: Making Porridge from scratch…
- Pretty much my sentiments about politics in 2020
- WOW: COVID-19 bill started a 180-day countdown for UFO disclosures
- INTERESTING: A story of “fake news” propagation, and how a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots… #TerryPratchett @terryandrob
- #Brexit agreement to bring #Ceefax back to British screens, PM #BorisJohnson hails return of “Good, clear, simple, British information, without any of that artificial foreign ‘web-intelligence’ nonsense”; Tim Berners-Lee unavailable for comment
- NEWS: Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail
- SPOOKS: Notorious KGB Asset and MI-6 Insider George Blake Dies in Moscow
- FOOD QUESTION: People who make #Kimchi: is Gochugaru particularly special, or can I just blitz my own dried chillies to make something reasonable? Specifically…
- FOOD: “What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020” by @rachel_handler
- Cute hardware hack: using ultrasonic distance sensors on a stepper motor to create an object detector
- Have started watching #StarTrekDiscovery and am enjoying it greatly, perhaps moreso than anything since TNG; but I can’t shake the humour of someone referring to it as “Star Trek: Nerds With Feelings”
- Spooks in ‘Straya. Sigh.
- It’s not even Internet Explorer…
- HISTORY: the 1995 “Cyberporn” debacle in TIME Magazine, and the echoes of it today
- FUN: Best “Loading” Animation, Evar
- I recognise this issue
- NEWS: “Only in Japan”? (Thread)
- “Ancient street food shop uncovered at Pompeii” #PompeiiFriedChicken #AddYourJokeHere
- GEEK: How To (Kinda) Get An Edit Button For Twitter Tweets With One Weird Trick: #macroblogging
- NEWS: Walk this way: army of hikers will road-test new map of footpaths
- FOOD: Caraway Rye French Toast Sunday
- INFO: Lunar Craters vs: The Size Of Wales
- NEWS: Lib Dems hook up with 5G cranks and give a boost to wild conspiracy
- LAW: About a year ago you may have seen Adam Neely’s fascinating explanation of the “Katy Perry/Flame” lawsuit; but I didn’t know what happened after…
- “If it Hadn’t Been for the Prompt Work of the Medics”: FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny
- NEWS: “Swaggering Jewish Gangster Mayor Hennadiy Kernes, Reluctant Savior of Kharkiv, Is Felled by COVID” – now *that’s* a headline
- NEWS: An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It.
- So, @TheInspiroBot wins today:
- Merry Christmas
- NEWS: Censorship doesn’t stop at Christmas – #Pakistan Telecommunication Authority notifies Google, Wikipedia: demands religious censorship, threatens blocks
- Kinda Want This
- FlightRadar24 Santa Tracker, currently over the Basque region https://www.flightradar24.com/R3DNO53/2662dc09
- CHRISTMAS EVE FOOD: Fish & Potato Pie, and a Kapustnica for tomorrow…
- NEWS: Continuing to Protect our Users in Kazakhstan – Open Policy & Advocacy
- Time for a Christmas movie!
- Humans Being Creative Bros
- FOOD: Testing out the UK Government-mandated post-Brexit dinner menu: back to 1978!
- RECOMMENDED: “Senator Tillis Releases Massive Unconstitutional Plan To Reshape The Internet In Hollywood’s Image” by @mmasnick
- FOOD: Espresso FoodPorn HD Closeup (May 2020)
- Lockdown SWE essential skills: homemade flat white, homemade biscotti. I still can’t do latte art for toffee, though…
- Somewhere in Salford, a penniless #BBC screenwriter is frantically workshopping the heartwarming #Christmas story of how a disillusioned pro-#Brexit truck driver reconnects with his spirituality & reconciles with his estranged family & son, by sharing food & discovering Sikhism.
- NEWS: “Twitter’s policy that deals with the infringement of copyright is increasingly being used to maliciously target accounts run by Tanzanian human rights activists in order to silence them, internet rights campaigners allege.”
- TIL: Heavy Raspberry Pi User? Keep An HDMI-to-USB Capture Device Around | Hackaday
- Unintended consequences of “protecting people from rude words” include leaving them open to defamation without the opportunity to respond:
- FOOD: 4kg of Coffee Beans should just about be enough for the Christmas break. All beans supplied by CoffeeGems Roasters of Farnham
- FOOD: How did I miss the #Baogel?
- ESSAY: Why is #GlitterBomb better than #Cyber? (HT: @MarkRober) #DontHaveNightmares
- TIL: Owls can get fat
- Glitterbomb v3.0 by @MarkRober!
- They’re the same picture
- Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell join legal battle against hacking company NSO
- This? This is what the President of the USA spends time on?
- Sailing through Bering sea at winter
- Making Walnut Biscotti…
- “#Europol and the #EuropeanCommission inaugurate new #DecryptionPlatform to tackle the challenge of #encrypted material for #LawEnforcement Investigations” – what does this mean? Possibly this…
- It was only in May that leaving London in a pandemic was considered honourable by Boris:
- 2020’s winter solstice is today at 10:02am London time. Happy New Year, everyone :-)
- How to find a recommendation for a truly great Ethical Hacker (Audio On)
- someone did a collab tiktok with a cat and it’s perfect
- #this
- Bravo… Kinda
- With the exception of one legitimate conversation, all of my recent Instagram direct messages are fraudsters or spammers, and all but two of them have been disabled by Instagram
- Spy agencies explore alternatives to working from home | Financial Times
- Tourists watch and scramble for cover as a huge chunk of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier calves. The scale is hard to imagine until you see the waves.
- Set up a Raspberry Pi meteor detector – skyatnightmagazine
- Saturn, Jupiter, & 4 (maybe 6?) Jovian Moons
- It’s mid-December, and in @HartleyWintney the daffodils are sprouting…
- THIS AWESOMESAUCE THREAD:
- Analysis: #VoCO #AgeAssurance & #AgeVerification by @GCHQ & @DCMS – at least now they are being honest about “we must make this legally obligatory in order to force market adoption”
- Hobbits == Teletubbies?
- Awww, I’m still getting comments about #freeFelix
- By digging around on the Internet, I found a previous draft (v2) of the @DCMS @GCHQ #VoCO #AgeAssurance #AgeVerification Report; and there’s only one weird difference…
- I know that a bunch of you were joking when you suggested that @GCHQ was proposing “phrenology” as a means of #AgeVerification & #AgeAssurance; BUT THEY WEREN’T JOKING: “Facial Morphotypes”
- Buying @Kaspersky for Christmas?
- Saturday Fun: The Reputed Plague Pits of London
- NYTimes: Zoom executive uses privileged access to user communications (before #endToEndEncryption) to quash Tiananmen memorials; yet for some reason @GCHQ doesn’t want us to have real #E2EE?
- Instagram Messenger: “Some features not available. This is to respect new rules for messaging services in Europe” – EU Privacy Law: fragmenting the Internet in ways that China could not achieve.
- Safe beneath the state-mandated watchful eyes of Google & Facebook
- “#AgeAssurance should not be a tool to create a ‘walled garden’ effect where children are isolated or confined into a reduced version of the internet” – what *is* it supposed to achieve, then? Answer: “creative tension” @GCHQ
- Wow2: @GCHQ & @DCMS “VoCO (Verification of Children Online)” – “…[seeking] an internet that actively recognises children and adapts the spaces they use to make them safer by design” #AgeAssurance #AgeVerification
- From @CJFDillow in 2018: “On Britain’s Intellectual Decline”, or perhaps: “TV doesn’t get good Marx anymore”. Nor Wittgenstein, nor Hayek…
- RT: @NetworkString: >This VoCO stuff from @GCHQ seems awfully dystopian…
- Re: “You Must Be Able To Touch-Type To See Porn”, MPs @david4wantage & @OliverDowden seem to feel that “warrantless corporate #surveillance & tracking is OK so long as it’s state-mandated”
- Wow: “On age assurance, we are looking at the sort of emerging technology whereby, for example, one can look at how children type and use artificial intelligence to see that it is a child rather than an adult.” @DCMS
- “We don’t want to ban *good* anonymity, we just want to ban *bad* anonymity. Which is to say: all the anonymity where we don’t know who is doing it.”
- How UK Tech Policy is drawn: popular but misinformed concerns in 2013 become manifesto commitments in 2015, badly drafted legislation by 2017, infeasibly un-enacted in 2018, & hankered-for by reactionaries in 2020
- UK parliamentarians of both parties, demanding that @Facebook embed #ArtificialIntelligence “Spy-in-the-Cab” #surveillance software into @Messenger & @WhatsApp
- It’s interesting to read Baroness @GreenJennyJones rightly railing against ad-hoc #EquipmentInterference (EI) in favour of… #RIPA and the TCN-enabled EI that it offers
- Pretty: A long time ago I used to think that Conway’s “Game of Life” was the zenith of cool, but…
- Sus!
- I honestly can’t decide whether Github’s removal of cookie banners means that EU privacy activists will spend more time celebrating, or trying to sue them:
- Hallelujah, finally some reasonable coverage regarding section 230
- Definitely a bit of insulation is missing or suboptimal, above this dark patch
- Analysing the FLIR-One camera pics, finding heat leaks that need to be plugged
- Via @stoya, a really interesting and pretty accurate explainer on how porn image classifiers work, and how people can explore, learn to work with & around them.
- How to get a job in Cybersecurity
- “Something something one job”
- That feeling when you want to import your old blogposts from Medium to WordPress, and end up building a new server…
- Testing, testing, 4… 5… 6…
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November 2013
- Why is BT charging me for services that they tell me are free/included?
- So @BoingBoing has apparently gone puerile and forgotten the bigger picture /cc @doctorow
October 2013
September 2013
- The cost of UK Cybercrime was not £27bn – Hansard
- Have logged this with @Jawbone about a bug with Big Jambox; let’s see what they do.
August 2013
- I am still trying to work out what happened to the Guardian’s followup Clegg article
- Apparently the Deputy PM thinks Anti-Terrorism Legislation is fairly used to retrieve/destroy classified data #Miranda
- A simple rebuttal to @cguitton’s attempt to trash Tor Hidden Services /cc @torproject
- New Marmite ad is magnificent, especially the pixellated dog
- 2010: ThorpeGlen Maintains the Worlds Largest Social Network
- Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes London Transport Poster
July 2013
- HITLER JAZZ-HANDS!
- Tales from Sun Microsystems – stuff you would not believe…
- Whilst we’re learning today: Holodomor. No, it’s not Harry Potter, not at all…
- TIL: about Freedom of the Press – #milton #areopagitica
- One Voice Community Choir perform on a closed M6 Motorway
- Cybersecurity and “Igon Values”
- HP Keeps Installing Secret Backdoors in Enterprise Storage # and the best bit is the password they used…
- The NSA just released a sexy new commercial with Sasha Grey # well, sort-of…
- An excellent little web-page on which one could waste quite a lot of time…
June 2013
- Extreme points of Earth – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia # your sunday evening enlightenment
- Carl Williams’ perfect slogan for the battle against printer cartridges: #HomePrintingIsKillingJunkMail
- TIL: What a “Warrant Canary” is…
- HP, Canon & Fujitsu [may] raise printing costs to deal with EU copyright ruling
- A Eulogy For AltaVista, The Google Of Its Time
- 404 – Sun Microsystems UK
- Making a custom knife for an Infantryman – YouTube
- 11 Harsh Realities About The World Of Harry Potter
- APT Defender : “The APT causes many tears. We are their Kleenex.” #cyber #this #somuchthis
- Wanna bet that CESG was using Man-in-the-Middle SSL with a fake cert/CA?
- Is it “Identity Theft” when people simply lie?
May 2013
- Seems to be a new PDF (malware?) spam doing the rounds: “Gmail Verification Alerts”
- Mark Zuckerberg “Likes” Something That’s Awesome: Baby Foxes # FB Foxes make Gawker headlines
- This story confuses me; are Google soon to to drop XMPP (and/or GTalk) entirely?
- Hackers prepare for first “national holiday” in their honor – Boing Boing
- The Daily Beast as seen by Ghostery
- …aaaaaand I’m back.
April 2013
- STOOPIDTALL – CICLAVIA 2013 – LA BIKE CULT on Vimeo #MUSTWATCH
- MUST READ: What’s wrong with “Good, clean wi-fi”?
- Stoya Interview
- trappistes rochefort and lindt …
- Aw, how sweet… #IBM
- Aquarium, Cage Duplex by Constance Guisset « CubeMe
- Police In Japan Are Asking ISPs To Start Blocking Tor | Techdirt
- “27 largest companies have admitted to the SEC that cyberattacks are basically meaningless” #security /ht @arashiyama
- Evolution of Music – Pentatonix – YouTube
- Govt keeps Snooping Bill campaigners in the dark » Spectator Blogs
- Snoopers’ laws could be used to ‘oppress us’, says David Cameron technology adviser – Telegraph
- Bump your phones together before shagging to prevent incest or inbreeding. #noreally #iceland #theresanapp
- Thought for today: APT is a racist term – #security #apt /cc @kevinmitnick
- Medals for Drone Warriors Canceled – NYTimes.com
- Lambchop – This Corrosion – YouTube
- What the Web used to look like: Santa Cruz Operation: SCO
- What the Web used to look like: Digital Equipment Corporation: DEC
- What the Web used to look like: Silicon Graphics “SILICON SURF”
- What the Web used to look like: Dept of Computing, Imperial College
- What the Web used to look like: NASA/JPL Comet Shoemaker Levy 9
- What the Web used to look like: Back when I wrote/ran search engines for Sun
- Why I can no longer take British Nuclear Deterrence seriously … #trident
- A Short Translation from Bullshit to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ /ht @shaver
- Scarfolk Council: Thought-Detector Vans, 1973 / “Is your mummy who she says she is?” # oh my, this is perfect; /ht @jimfinnis
- Next time you see a plea for #cybersecurity spending on more #cyberwarriors …
- America’s Raisin Regime: De minimis curat lex # Gosplan’s Sour Grapes in the USA
- Appeals court upholds legality of Aereo’s “tiny antennas” scheme # Utterly Bonkers But Legally Fabulous
- Hartley Wintney in Spring
- TadaoCern – Tadas Cerniauskas # I find the Van Gogh one to be scarily believable
- Orange Teardown – iFixit #ofcourse
- Epic #mustread on DDoS, re: Spamhaus/Cyberbunker and “bringing down the Internet” with DDoS
March 2013
- Saudi Arabia may try to end anonymity for Twitter users
- A BDSM/Fetish website which apparently locks-in its user data and then deletes it #fetlife #aptbutwrong
- Graphic Designer of the Year – Neatorama
- What will happen when 3D-printing stops being a toy? #youtube #defcad
- BBC: Met Office three-month forecast was ‘not helpful’ # in other news, the Met Office has a ‘soul’
- After Ever After – DISNEY Parody – YouTube
- Cyber-security: The digital arms trade | The Economist # It’s shit like this which will hurt Full Disclosure
- BBC News – Saudi Arabia ‘threatens Skype ban’ # TWIST: #interception breaks the #privacy of the #Hijab
- “LENA! LAUNCH A WORM!” – the best bit of the #Deloitte “#Cyber #Security Evolved” Campaign
- Python speed optimization in the real world
- Current state of Laptop Stickerdom
- “Petty treason” – things that were “worse than murder” – Wikipedia
- …also the Heston Blumenthal Earl-Grey Gin seems to have taken a severe hammering?
- Intra-Christian Envy | Giles Fraser | Comment is free | The Guardian
- Mysterious mini door found in Golden Gate Park | Richmond SF Blog
- Ubik 2000 – Clover Chemicals UK Ltd # /ht @jimfinnis
- Letters: Botched draft that threatens the blogosphere | Media | The Guardian #guardian
- SATURDAY UPDATE – HELP! – Leveson Blog Regulation – WE NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN!
- Doodling in Math Class: Connecting Dots – YouTube
- NetBSD: RNG Bug May Result in Weak Cryptographic Keys #sameold #sameold
- Stephen Fry: It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that”, as if that gives them certain rights
- A question for @markpack @drjennywoods @julianhuppert @zoeimogen and all #libdem #libdems, please /cc @sunny_hundal
- PyCon Dongle Drama Denouement! #pycon #donglegate
- Further, regarding #HackedOff / @HackingInquiry, @OpenRightsGroup and the #Leveson meeting last night /ht @webmink
- #PyCon attendee fired from job for being overheard making ‘dongle’ jokes
- Spot the BoingBoing effect
- “I’m from the Internet and I’m here to help” – an explanation for those who lack context
- madebypxi • PXi Ventures is hiring a CEO for #Vinepeek
- Meeting with #HackedOff / @HackingInquiry this Evening
- AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison | Threat Level | Wired.com # But surely here in the UK we are safe? #techcity? #siliconroundabout?
- Royal Charter or Star Chamber For Stars? | Wild Webmink #leveson #blog #chillingeffects
- Dansons la capucine – YouTube – #french #cats #rofl
- … and calls on the Government to impose sanctions on Twitter until it agrees to fully co-operate with the UK authorities…
- #Leveson Royal Charter – Register All The Blogs #allthethings
- UK Bloggers & Tweeters: Be aware that the Royal Charter re: #Leveson is also aimed at regulating *you*
- Leveson’s liberal friends bring shame upon the left | Nick Cohen | The Observer
- Dangerous Minds | Needling the Nazis: The subversive cross-stitching of Major Alexis Casdagli
- Stoya on the Pitfalls of Heteronormativity and Monogamy | VICE United States #MUSTREAD
- YouTube # How a Cat knocks on a door.
- A New Role for Muffett: Facebook
- Spy Chief Says Little Danger of Cyber ‘Pearl Harbor’ in Next Two Years | Wired # OMG COMMON SENSE IS BREAKING OUT ALL OVER
- Retailer Sues Visa Over $13 Million ‘Fine’ for Being Hacked | Threat Level | Wired.com # End of the road for PCI ?
- “Some of us are in the gutter. The view’s better from down here.” #wildelymisquoted
- U3O8 Standard Set For Neutron Counting — $177,830
- Aeropress and storage of grinder
- ipmi: freight train to hell #security #danfarmer
- One for @weldpond @dotmudge
- …and then there’s SATAN
- Tuesday 31 December 1996: “Hacker ‘crowbar’ released on Net” # Daily Telegraph #security #crack
- Welcome to PinItTo.me / PinItTo.me is an infinite virtual corkboard. Collaborate with friends, family, or colleagues…
- Fair Film Choosing For Couples™ – 10 rules will lead to a lifetime of happy evenings, or your money back – Bread and Watir
- Somewhere between sanity and impotence: US Gov’t realises private sector software can’t be CNI #cyber #foss
- Which Hurts More, AC or DC Electricity? #EPIC #SCIENCE #FTW
- James Deen on Condoms in Porn. And observations on Guardian CiF video editing.
- So you meet someone interesting on a train, talk to them for 1+ hours, then your phone crashes and loses their details
- House of Commons: Select Committees: Public Accounts: UK cyber security, 13 March 2013 #cyber #want
- Blast from the #Security past:
- ClippyJS – Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia /cc @glynwintle /ht @lloydwatkin
- #LittlePrinter Authentication Bypass – blog.encrypted.cc # THIS IS WHY YOU TEST NEGATIVE CASES IN YOUR CODE
- Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox T-Shirt in truck-format shrinkwrap
- 2416 Jay Osborn # and his epic MPK office signage
- Reading about the necessity for “real” marriage to be “consommated”; God wants married straight people to make soup?
- Pwn Pad | Pwnie Express # #WANT WANT SO MUCH WANT
- BEST. NIGELLA. QUOTE. EVAR.
- YouTube vs: BBC Video Embed HTML Code; a comparison # Does anyone have website contacts at the BBC?
- BBC News: What is it like to work at Facebook? # For SunMicrosystems people who’d like to see MPK now /ht Mark Crosbie
February 2013
- Mexican Weed Cannon Launches Packages Of Marijuana Into California # Next thing they’ll ban long metal tubes
- Skating Kloof Nek on a Longboard #CapeTown #SpoofingForRhinos
- Men’s limited manufacturing! White Day “gummy man” 3D workshop | FabCafe # MAKE A GIANT 3D-SCAN GUMMI BEAR OF YOURSELF
- BREAKING: Bradley Manning pleads guilty to leaking secret government documents – latimes.com
- OH MY GOD: *THIS* IS WHAT PASSES FOR COMPUTER EDUCATION IN THE UK, TODAY
- Micro-tardis, Liverpool St Station
- What most schools don’t teach # LEARN TO CODE: applies to the UK just as much as the USA – excellent video
- “Your password is… – by Glyn Wintle – Ignite London 7 on Vimeo” /ht @glynwintle #MUSTWATCH
- “Testing Tor Hidden Services with Burp Pro” – blog.encrypted.cc /ht @runasand # spooks will be buying burp at speed
- A souvenir for any Sun Microsystems Security Geeks of a certain age
- GoPro: David Finlayson’s Trombone Silliness – YouTube #MUSTWATCH
- Two surprisingly interesting and SFW statistical analysis of the lives of pornstars and adverts for escorts
- It’s Okay To Be Smart • My last post about the ocean-dwelling virus that… # electron microscopy
- HELP: Where can I get about 20 cardboard boxes, suitable for filing/archive, approx A4 x 30cm or a bit bigger ?
- Craig: “Are you a libertarian or something, because I’m not sensing any clear political philosophy behind your position?”
- Everything to be labelled with terrifying images of death # how very #cyber
- “Wat Behaviour” in Programming Languages – Security Impact /ht @jimfinnis #EPIC #MUSTWATCH #SHORT #WAT
- BBC – dot.Rory: Cyberwar or cybermirage? # some sanity from @BBCRoryCJ #cyber
- MotoX near Hartley Wintney – YouTube
- #THIS: @JeffJarvis angrily *eviscerates* the BBC *on-air* for whipping up “Crap, BS” hacking story #MUSTWATCH
- Imperial Model B Typewriter, circa 1915..1919
- “If your education is to be used to shut up, placate, downplay, sweet talk, then you are better off being a carpenter”
- Police Raided a Guy’s House Because He Posted a Picture of a Toy Mortar on Facebook
- Are you in Law Enforcement? Do you have problems correcting erroneous CCTV timestamps? There’s an App for that!
- 1995, USENIX Security: Marcus Ranum pulls out a Hasselblad, a ringflash and asks me to sit for a portrait
- Doris Lessing on Beauty, Entitlement …
- Burp Suite Professional now supports interception and analysis of #Tor websites & hidden services via SOCKS /ht @runasand @torproject @portswigger
- 1) MakerGeek 2) Pretty LEDs 3) Arduino 4) Multiuser Sex Toy 5) Intellectual Property & Patent Argument
- FLASH: Hansard: Minister admits: “There is no offence of cybercrime in law” /ht @gwire #cybersecurity
- If you want to try tracking the Asteroid 2012 DA14 fly-by tonight, use HeavensAbove # shortcuts
- Next time you need examples of Cyberattacks, these are three of them… apparently… /ht @jeffreycarr
- A Chinese Hacker’s Identity Unmasked – Businessweek # surprising #mustread
- VAX Cluster running on VAX Emulator running on Raspberry Pi # too cool for words, today is over
- WANTED: *Uncorrupted* Energetic #Security Geek, ideally: mixed Web/OpenSource/Developer/Linux/SysAdmin Background, UK
- Stop pretending cyberspace exists – Salon.com # Traction, at bloody last
- WHITE HOUSE EXECUTIVE ORDER: IMPROVING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CYBERSECURITY, the #decyber analysis /ht @adrianco
- OH MY GOD: THE U.S. GOVT ARE TRYING TO PROTECT THE INTERNET FROM PEOPLE LIKE _ME_ #guardian
- “Cyberfraud vs: Biofraud vs: Fraud” – an observation by @bbart
- LibTech-Auditing-Cheatsheet # technical things to look for when auditing extremely high value applications
- A List of @OpenRightsGroup Links And Resources #openrightsgroup
- Pictures of Hipsters Taking Pictures of Food
- At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life | Ars Technica
- “Pope’s Dove of Peace Attacked by Seagull of Irony” | TIME.com # drove him over the edge?
- A Defense of Comic Sans – YouTube # mustwatch /ht @joannageary
- My sister Mandy on BBC Radio discussing Taxation and the Elderly in who are in care #JeremyHunt
- Li Hongbo – Pure White Paper on Vimeo # disturbing paper sculpture
- Kevin & Kell on reputation management – #linkedin #security
- How Aaron Kramer helped get me into Opera…
- Ryan Werber, CCIE #38168: “How I did the Starwars Traceroute” /ht @RyanWerber
- Future Identities: Changing identities in the UK: the next 10 years #bis #internet #identity
- Egypt Court Orders Block on YouTube Over Anti-Islam Video – NYTimes.com
- When CCIEs Get Bored
- Getting Keyboard Focus on Password Entry for OSX Login without a Mouse
- Backtrack 5r3: Capturing Voice from Remote Mic & Converting it to Searchable Text # the security services have FOSS competition
- I just made Black Soup
- Cyber Security. Evolved. | YouTube #nope #nope #doesntworklikethis @deloitteuk #watrudoin @deloitteuk #stahp
- Alternative Zero Dark Thirty Review
- The Internet Is Speech, The Internet Is Books. The Attorney General Is Wrong. #rant /cc @guy_herbert
- Zero Dark Thirty – A Review
- Attorney General: “We desperately need to retain ignorant jurors. X-factor viewers, perhaps.”
- LightBlueTouchpaper blog knocked temporarily offline by demand for free Ross Anderson book # 224Gb in 1 day
- “internet means terrorists could be slipping through the net” # this is what passes for humour in MI5 circles #pun #geddit?
- Idea / Suggestion for new SaaS: double-blind presentation submission for upcoming events, battle sexism /HT @lanyrd
- Is #Zorpia the reason I am getting Google “Your account is under attack” warnings? I think so…
- Warning: We believe that attackers backed by certain states may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.
- 50 USC Ch. 7: INTERFERENCE WITH HOMING PIGEONS OWNED BY UNITED STATES
- Ross Anderson’s “Security Engineering” – Now FREE to Download and Read
- Web Security: Blacklists, Whitelists and WAFs – An essay in TWO parts at the @Surevine blog
- The Entire Run Of Omni Magazine Is Available Online For Free # One for the SciFi Geeks
- The case for a national ID card – The Washington Post /ht @owenblacker
- Looks like the Church of England just found wisdom in the words of a child #finalfee
- Kevin & Kell :: How to abuse your friends reputations with LinkedIn #security
- Hairdressers Registration (Amendment) #regulation #security #cybersecurity @openrightsgroup /ht @julianhuppert
- What is a “Shavers Only” Electrical Outlet?
- #StupidOrScam? I was just sent a link about the @hola_org VPN; the @torproject people will waste ages explaining what’s wrong with it
- Problems that British Gardeners never have to face: Crazy Tumbleweed Storm
- Analysis: “We must all take our cyber-security seriously” – Editorial, Observer / Guardian
- Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus
- Mumble and the Bandwidth – Anonymous CB radio with Mumble and Tor /ht @runasand
- Fuck me, #CCDP has already spent £405m pounds of its expected £1.8b budget /ht #CDB @openrightsgroup @julianhuppert
- So Twitter got hacked; here’s the one bit of advice they didn’t hand out
- “Cyber War Will Not Take Place”: Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Rid: Books # DUE JUNE 2013 #MUSTREAD
- Turn your browser into a notepad /ht @dogsbodyorg
- Company selling #CookieLaw Tool reminds us there is still zombie legislation /cc @TheCookieCrunch
- “Kastor” / Alessi on Behance # MUST WANT PENCIL SHARPENER
- This Wikipedia page needs an “Unprofessional Bodies” section:
- Dropsafe Quote of the Day
- Two killjoy researchers from Cambridge doubt whether quantum cryptography can be regarded as ‘provably secure’ #guesswho
January 2013
- If you seek insight into how the Government perceives the public aspect of ‘cybersecurity’, this is the answer
- Death of the #CookieLaw – Muffett’s Conspiracy Theory
- The stupid cookie law is dead at last – “exactly what websites were doing in 2009, except in a bigger font”
- Whom do I know who is attending #FOSDEM? I’d like to link interesting people together…
- How a WAF works
- APOD: 2013 January 30 – Full Moon Silhouettes #astronomy #video #mustwatch #pretty
- $ more ~/scripts/fillproc
- How hardware hacking (almost) made me a fraudster # I believe this article to be entirely, dangerously wrong…
- “The number of content removal requests we received increased by 98% compared to the previous reporting period” – Google Transparency
- Giant isopod – Wikipedia # a foot-long deep-sea woodlouse
- Pentagon Plans Massive Increase in Internet Security Teams
- “Is the country in love?” – state intelligence-gathering techniques used for philosophic, sentimental, romantic ends…
- Watch the World’s Highest Resolution Drone-Mounted Camera in Action #surveillance #geek
- Guest Post: ‘A Venture Capitalist’s Experience of Startups and Security’
- How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail # patent trolls on the back foot? #mustread
- Cyclical History in “The Wanting Seed” – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia # thought provoking #anthonyburgess
- Question: Is the Daily Mail in charge of child protection policy making? /ht @openrightsgroup
- Scottie Pinwheel # The cutest example of the Dining Philosophers problem EVAR #MUSTWATCH
- Dinner: conversation regards love and death and human imperatives.
- Carleton University free speech wall torn down within hours # Sometimes #Censorship is not done by the State
- Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins — Remains of the Day #mustread
- Farnborough Police are into drug humour / puns in a bad way
- Male Geeks Rise Up For Women #beyondparody @BBCWomansHour – on live right now
- French court orders Twitter to reveal racists’ details #antisemitism # THERE’S A REASON IT’S CALLED ‘DELETE’
- Claire Perry seems to suggest that once a child can pay for their own phone, they can skip filtering?
- “…which announced our intention to establish a UK National CERT” – #TheyWorkForYou #security
- My fellow security geeks used to get interviewed in CACM & SciAm; now they get interviewed in GQ
- Where can I see the list of proposed / new TLDs? Has anyone bid on “.onion”? #tor @torproject
- How mandatory intrusion disclosure might be used to destroy competition #security #compliance
- Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa? | Joanna Blythman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
- Google Declares War on the Password # Dear @Wired, no, sorry, you’re again wrong about #password #security /cc @bobmcmillan
- BBC News – Norway goat cheese fire closes tunnel
- The more I use them, the more I think the B&W MM-1 Speakers were a really good purchase
- North/South Food — Eating across the North/South divide # Feeding 2 people on £20 / week Food Blog
- Defeating AES without a PhD – SpiderLabs Anterior
- “…a Baptist minister who lives with same-sex attraction…” #evangelical #lgbt #wtf
- Snowboarding in the streets of Paris: http://on.fb.me/VF4vOs
- Re: State v. Internet #observer @aaronsw
- Is/was it only a Sun Microsystems thing to refer to zip/cable ties as ‘rat tails’
- TSA to pull backscatter perv scanners from US airports • The Register /ht Scott Elam # good, but not as good as it could be
- Major Scaled #2 : REM – “Recovering My Religion” on Vimeo # epic, weird, wrong
- Hearts full of youth, hearts fill of truth, six parts gin…
- ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Is Osama bin Laden’s Last Victory Over America | | Rolling Stone
- moon hoax not # thoughtful and intelligent, unlike some of its viewers. /ht @runasand
- This is a @glynmoody must-read: Mobile provider Three (ie: 3 UK) are indulging in political censorship.
- Analysis: the official Houses of Parliament MP/Peers password security advice # I give them B- /ht @pictfor #foia
- Aaron Swartz and the Corrupt Practice of Plea Bargaining – Forbes
- Garfunkel and Oates: absolutely hilarious, totally filthy and completely NSFW. Also: ukulele
- Two further barriers to UK mobile money – /ht @Penrillian
- Stripmining Twitter and Facebook for Security, Part 2
- Stripmining Twitter and Facebook for Security, Part 1
- Against the grain: Sugar Puff beer | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
- Childrens charities oppose #Nominet plan for ‘secure’ .uk web addresses # direct.uk on the ropes /ht @openrightsgroup
- Cyber-Warfare: It’s something you do Scottish people via Twitter #parliament #cyberwar #rofl @cathyjamieson
- ‘Aaron’s Law’ to ease ‘outlandish’ US computer laws
- Watching The National Grid for Geeks
- Dear LazyWeb: HELP, is anyone doing *real* high-availability enterprise architecture for Jive 6.0 please? #jive #jivesoftware #gartner
- School Buses of the World
- I’m generally not one for spectator sports – football, cricket, gymnastics – but this is impressive…
- So, in summary, the ‘mint a trillion dollar coin’ idea failed to gain enough currency?
- Raspberry Pi sales surpass one million units | BGR # What do they mean, “minicomputer” ???
- Skodas, Car Batteries, Sleet and Hot Chocolate
- Metasploit: Serialization Mischief in Ruby Land… # sploitz on railz, oh my… #security #rails /ht @hdmoore
- Buzzing / filming a wild Moose with a radio-controlled quadcopter #MUSTSEE #EPIC
- #Telegraph blogger advocating censorship to inhibit the self-immolation of Justin Bieber fans – /cc @timothy_stanley
- British Frame Manufacturers – London Fixed-Gear and Single-Speed Community
- Russia has Siberia. Apparently England has “The West Country”. /ht @julianhuppert
- I wondered about buying a Garmin Cycling GPS – and then I thought: Why bother? /cc @dcuthbert
- The Daily Mash on EU Cookies Directive Popups – /ht @dml /cc @openrightsgroup #funny
- Samsung Galaxy S3 ‘sudden death’ security flaw fixed in UK | CNET UK
- Why I believe that we will have to break up Nominet, the UK domain’s registry
- Censorship Chic /ht @openrightsgroup @privacyint
- Watch an eerie mockup animation of Neil Gaiman’s fable about a heroic black cat # very good
- Problems arose when the local fox population started watching “Roadrunner” cartoons …
- Fun in a Cold Climate: Stained-Ice Igloo building
- curly wurly #nom
- Funny, I’ve always assumed that at least some of the reason for calling it #BigData was by analogy to this:
- Silent Skype calls can hide secret messages – tech – 05 January 2013 – New Scientist /ht @PaulMarks12
- Security Hypothetical
- RSA Conference 2012 – Cyber War: You’re Doing it Wrong! – Marcus Ranum # MUSTWATCH #cybersecurity #cybercrime #cyberwar
- Watching the LibDems risk backpedalling into #CCDP /cc @markpack @julianhuppert @drjennywoods @glyndaviesmp @glynmoody @glynwintle
- Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated) #TechCrunch #Censorship
- BeetBox | Scott Made This #fun #music #raspberrypi
- Watch This. Especially if you are Male and like Space Exploration. #Apollo #History
- Dear Lazyweb: Do I a) Buy a Dell Display b) Buy an Apple Thunderbolt Display c) Wait for an upgrade to the latter?
- Google Text-To-Speech, “Giraffe now praises the iPad”, quote-handling and why I think the bug occured
- God may forgive them, but the Evangelicals surely never shall …
- Google Online Security Blog: Enhancing digital certificate security # here we go again #turktrust
- Critical National Infrastructure & #Cybersecurity: “…or you could just throw a couple of squirrels into a switching station”
- List of Notable Cats – Wikipedia, of course – leads to “Unsinkable Sam”
- FactHacks [29c3] – YouTube
- Facebook. New Year’s Eve. Direct Object References. Pardon?
- Hash-Flooding DOS Reloaded: Attacks and defenses [29C3] – YouTube # excellent preso from djb et al.
- It’s not that the guy won’t get up at 8am so much as he admitted to benefit fraud live, on-air…
- I like this #rabbit #cartoon
- France’s censorship demands to Twitter are more dangerous than “hate speech” | Glenn Greenwald /ht @mssarakelly #MUSTREAD
- In Case There Was Still Any Doubt, Here’s the Top Ten Reasons We Know the Earth Is Round
- Happy New Year, Everybody…