Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
An Internet That Speaks Your Language
[This was posted on the BBC site at the end of October]
It is forty years to the week since the first data packets were sent over the ARPANET, the research network commissioned by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to see whether computer-to-computer communications could be made faster, more reliable and [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:
Web curbs for Olympic journalists – What a surprise…
Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown – Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… – nasty little piece of [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Shouting ‘bug’ on a crowded Internet…
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website, and it's also on CircleID]
In the last few weeks we’ve seen two very different approaches to the full disclosure of security flaws in large-scale computer systems.
Problems in the domain name system have been kept quiet long enough for vendors to find and fix their [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 17th through July 22nd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 17th and July 22nd:
Matasano?s ?blunder? « Ars Militaria: Research Institute of Systematic Misanthropy – Outline of what is believed to be Dan Kaminsky's cache poisoning finding
RANDOM.ORG – Coin Flipper – I really like this… especially the older coins
Techdirt: A Detailed Explanation Of How The BSA Misleads With [...]
