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Friday Squid Blogging: Clothing that Keeps an Exercise Journal
It's called Squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
Categories: Security
The Problems of Too Much Information Sharing
Funny. Fake, but funny. Edited to add (2/3): The rest of the story....
Categories: Security
VeriSign Hacked, Successfully and Repeatedly, in 2010
Reuters discovered the information: The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing in October that followed new guidelines on reporting security breaches to investors. It was the most striking disclosure to emerge in a review by Reuters of more than 2,000 documents mentioning breach risks since the SEC guidance was published. The company, unsurprisingly,...
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gvs: Watching the snowy landscape from the train, it's beautiful...
Watching the snowy landscape from the train, it's beautiful...
Categories: Identica
gvs: Why does !ubuntu #precise keep removing skype on system updates? http://goo.gl/cR5pK
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gvs: Dear #nmbs, please, please, fix your problems in Lier, appologizing each day for the same delays is not acceptable. #fail
Dear #nmbs, please, please, fix your problems in Lier, appologizing each day for the same delays is not acceptable. #fail
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Prisons in the U.S.
Really good article on the huge incarceration rate in the U.S., its causes, its effects, and its value: Over all, there are now more people under "correctional supervision" in America -- more than six million -- than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second...
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gvs: Any recommendations for a !linux !bsd based community Spambox?
Any recommendations for a !linux !bsd based community Spambox?
Categories: Identica
The Idaho Loophole
Brian C. Kalt (2005), "The Perfect Crime," Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 93, No. 2. Abstract: This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho in which one can commit felonies with impunity. This is because of the intersection of a poorly drafted statute with a clear but neglected constitutional provision: the Sixth Amendment's Vicinage Clause. Although lesser criminal...
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gvs: If the #nmbs becomes any less punctual... http://guy.vsbnet.be/content/if-nmbs-becomes-any-less-punctual
If the #nmbs becomes any less punctual... http://guy.vsbnet.be/content/if-nmbs-becomes-any-less-punctual
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Possibly the Most Incompetent TSA Story Yet
The storyline: TSA screener finds two pipes in passenger's bags. Screener determines that they're not a threat. Screener confiscates them anyway, because of their "material and appearance." Because they're not actually a threat, screener leaves them at the checkpoint. Everyone forgets about them. Six hours later, the next shift of TSA screeners notices the pipes and -- not being able...
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Biases in Forensic Science
Some errors in forensic science may be the result of the biases of the examiners: Though they cannot prove it, Dr Dror and Dr Hampikian suspect the difference in contextual information given to the examiners was the cause of the different results. The original pair may have subliminally interpreted ambiguous information in a way helpful to the prosecution, even though...
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gvs: Is it possible to move my #friendica (#friendika) to a new URL without loosing my existing connections? And if so, how ? ;-)
Is it possible to move my #friendica (#friendika) to a new URL without loosing my existing connections? And if so, how ? ;-)
Categories: Identica
Liars and Outliers Update
According to my publisher, the book was printed last week and the warehouse is shipping orders to booksellers today. Amazon is likely to start shipping books on Thursday. (Yes, Amazon's webpage claims that the book will be published on February 21, 2012, but they'll ship copies as soon as they get them -- this ain't Harry Potter.) The Kindle edition...
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British Tourists Arrested in the U.S. for Tweeting
Does this story make sense to anyone? The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: 'Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America'. After making their way through passport control at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)...
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The Nature of Cyberwar
This was pretty good, I thought: However, it may be difficult to write military doctrine for many aspects of cyberconflict that are truly revolutionary. Here are no fewer than 10 to consider: The Internet is an artificial environment that can be shaped in part according to national security requirements. The blinding proliferation of technology and hacker tools makes it impossible...
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Password Sharing Among American Teenagers
Interesting article from the New York Times on password sharing as a show of affection. "It's a sign of trust," Tiffany Carandang, a high school senior in San Francisco, said of the decision she and her boyfriend made several months ago to share passwords for e-mail and Facebook. "I have nothing to hide from him, and he has nothing to...
Categories: Security
gvs: Like the !ubuntu #hud concept very much
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