Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Don’t have nightmares
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website. Or on any of the spamblogs that rip off my copy and use it as linkbait.]
Anyone concerned about the security of their computers and the data held on them might sleep a little uneasily tonight.
Over the past few weeks we’ve heard reports of serious [...]
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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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Friday, July 18th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 13th through July 17th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 13th and July 17th:
iPhone problems - how carphone warehouse took my iphone & ruined my credit rating
Mac vs PC - YouTube - Mac vs. PC - Halo Style
Android - Google’s Android platform: not so open after all
Schneier on Security: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks - We need a firefox extension [...]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 10th through July 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 10th and July 11th:
Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online - Distance Degrees.com - Useful list of places to look
BBC NEWS | Politics | Voters' data 'should not be sold' - Another sensible report to be ignored by the UK government…
Personal Internet [...]
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 4th through July 5th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 4th and July 5th:
Folke Koebberling and Martin Kaltwasser- Amphis at Wysing Arts Centre - Worth a visit
Slashdot | Working Towards an Eco-Friendly Fireworks Display - Heavy metals, toxic chemicals, pretty colours in the sky…
Virgin, BPI at odds as first infringement letters go out - typical incompetence and [...]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:
Detecting SSH tunnels « coderrr - more detail here
Slashdot | Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling - bugger. but another reason why traffic analysis should be as closely regulated as other forms of surveillance
OFT Refers Kangaroo To Competition Commission, Delaying Launch By Months | paidContent:UK - [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 7th through June 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 7th and June 11th:
Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter - John Battelle's Searchblog - John Battelle disagrees over the impact of Google…
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Useful reflection from Nick Carr
U2 manager: Ad-supported music is beneath musicians - Paul McGuiness shows [...]
