Month: September 2018
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Five-Eyes Intelligence Services Choose Surveillance Over Security
The Five Eyes -- the intelligence consortium of the rich English-speaking countries (the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand) -- have issued a "Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption" where they claim their needs for surveillance outweigh everyone's needs for security and privacy. ...the increasing use and sophistication of certain…
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Nazi spies awarded fake medals after war by their MI5 controller
Two fascist spies were awarded fake Nazi medals after the end of the second world war by an MI5 officer who penetrated their secret network, a newly published book on wartime espionage has revealed.
Copies of German bronze honours for non-combat gallantry were commissioned from the Royal Mint and presented at a covert ceremony in January … -
Temporarily disabled GC7Q9E6 Oxford's Wild Wolf One
This checkin to GC7Q9E6 Oxford's Wild Wolf One reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked in on it while passing by and this cache has disappeared. :-(
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What Cyber-War Will Look Like
When prompted to think about the way hackers will shape the future of great power war, we are wont to imagine grand catastrophes: F-35s grounded by onboard computer failures, Aegis BMD systems failing to launch seconds before Chinese missiles arrive, looks of shock at Space Command as American surveillance satellites start careening towards the Earth--stuff …
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Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph
AltNevil Maskelyne – doing it for the lulz?
LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution’s celebrated lecture theatre in … -
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This Colorful New Font Is Made Entirely of Brand Logos
If you're completely, irrevocably head-over-heels for brands, we finally have just the typeface for you.
Creatives at digital agency Hello Velocity have developed Brand New Roman, a font comprised of 76 corporate brand logos. The Idiocracy-style project is partly parody, but you can actually download the font and use it—and artists have already been playing around … -
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How Edge Follows In IE's Security Failings
Replicating an experiment Steve Gibson performed into browser EV certificate acceptance, Dan discovers that an ugly security-weakening "feature" of Internet Explorer also appears in Edge. What the hell, Microsoft?
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Thoughts on Reflex 2.0
So Reflex are now designing the 2.0 version of the camera they’ve so far yet to ship version 1.0 of or even find manufacturing partners for. Add to this the nonsense of trying to build a set of primes, film processor and scanner without securing any more funding and I’m increasingly leaning towards this…
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Review of The Glebe Play Park
This review of The Glebe Play Park originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. The Glebe Play Park, 2 Glebe Rd, Cumnor, Oxford OX2 9QJ, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent play area especially good for young children. Swings, slides, fort, mini hedge maze, musical instruments, exercise equipment, roundabout, trampoline, and climbing frame …
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What Monogamous Couples Can Learn From Polyamorous Relationships, According to Experts
Polyamory — having more than one consensual sexual or emotional relationship at once — has in recent years emerged on television, mainstream dating sites like OkCupid and even in research. And experts who have studied these kinds of consensual non-monogomous relationships, say they have unique strengths that anyone can learn from.
Consensual non-monogamy can include polyamory, …