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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Possibly, this may actually be a good thing, at least as far as the internet is concerned. When governments realise that they can't get any "special exemptions" put in for them, the only real option left open is to throw thei
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Taking the UK government to court over Tempora(privacynotprism.org.uk)
1 points by marcuspovey 13y ago|0 comments
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Hmm.. that's nice, but I don't care, this NSA/GCHQ nonsense has burnt me for cloud computing, sorry. What needs to happen is that the market heavily punish, and legal teams sue back into the stone age, those companies that co
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
I've said this elsewhere; but this is all part of an attempt (or at least an institutional belief) that equates opposition and protest, which is part of a healthy democracy, with terrorism. This is very scary.
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PRISM-Breaking my life, part 1(marcus-povey.co.uk)
1 points by marcuspovey 13y ago|0 comments
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
I find the phrase "Memorisation not rationalisation" deeply sinister.
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
At home, and everywhere I've had a say on how the network is laid out during working hours, I treat wifi as external. They get internet access, and there's a password to prevent the neighbours kids downloading GBs of pr0n, access
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Commented earlier on another Women In Tech thread (seems to be the meme of the day). The question is not "Why are there so few women in IT?", it's "Why are so many men in IT such jerks?"
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Even if you no longer own or control the content?
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Linus on /dev/random: "We actually know what we are doing. You don't."(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
139 points by marcuspovey 13y ago|74 comments
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Yeah, 'cos I really want a convenient way to send my fingerprints to the government.
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
This shit has got to stop. Seriously. As MEN in our industry we need to take a stand against this sort of behaviour which is truly endemic and all pervasive in our industry. This is not a women in tech issue, it's a problem with MEN.
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
I would love to see everyone in the IT industry take a similar pledge. If enough of us do we can choke off the oxygen supply to these organisations, especially if we make it an unattractive career prospect for undergrads.
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Absolutely, but it changes the economics substantially in your favour.
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
That is the rub of course. Self hosting is somewhat better, if nothing else because it presents a much less tempting target, and it is a privilege currently only available to the technical. Well implemented strong encryption is another aven
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Except of course, as we've learnt over the last few weeks, they're essentially one and the same thing. You can't trust a third party with your data if you want it kept secure. Period.
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Terms and conditions may apply(tacma.net)
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NSA / GCHQ Surveillance: What we have learnt(marcus-povey.co.uk)
1 points by marcuspovey 13y ago|0 comments
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Inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens [live](euco.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)
25 points by marcuspovey 13y ago|0 comments
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
I'm not taking any side here, but both this link and the top story provide little evidence, and neither side is quoting particularly credible sources.
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
http://skunk.marcus-povey.co.uk/debogotron/?url=http://www.t... :)
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Two separate questions conflated together: 1) Why aren't there more women in positions of authority? 2) Why are the majority of people in authority incompetent? The answer to the second is probably that people get promoted exactly one
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Show HN: Afternoon project, data-jurisdiction.org(data-jurisdiction.org)
1 points by marcuspovey 13y ago|0 comments
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
In the light of everything that has happened over the last month, this has to be a joke, right?
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Ask HN: Global data protection & seizure laws summary page?
1 points by marcuspovey 13y ago|0 comments
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Absolutely, the problems are political. But there's a technological component as well. A combined approach will, I think, have the best chance of success. We fight like hell to fix the political problem, while at the same time making s
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Friends don't let friends use cleartext...(marcus-povey.co.uk)
1 points by marcuspovey 13y ago|0 comments
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
No need: Using a Mac? Compromised, the NSA has root access via the Patriot act. Ditto windows. And that's before you get to the idea of remote updates to the microcode supported by modern PCs (and not even running Linux keeps you safe
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
Because when they failed to be not elected (the vast majority of those who voted voted for some other guy, but somehow these guys got to be in charge - first past the post, joy), they thought "stability" was the most important t
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by marcuspovey 13y ago
If you have firebug installed, setting display:none on the modal divs works a treat.

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