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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Star Wars Episode 8 (spoiler alert)

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

It pains me to say this

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The Internet can't match the local pub : The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has perhaps merely confirmed what all right-minded people ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Is the NSA making friends and influencing people at other agencies?

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Because Congress is grilling those other agencies over their use of equipment containing backdoors probably put there by NSA : A bunch of...
Monday, January 25, 2016

"Nannycam" security so bad, there's a search engine for bedroom video monitors

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I keep talking about how when it comes to the new "Internet Of Things", security wasn't an afterthought.  It wasn't though...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

What's all this cold white stuff, Boss?

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I guess we're not in Georgia anymore, Wolfgang ...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Snowmageddon, explained

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I guess I need to point out that Maryland is south of the Mason-Dixon line.  And while that doesn't make it in the South, it does mak...
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Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December

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We've had near 20 inches of snow here at Castle Borepatch - it's hard to tell exactly how much because the wind is gusting and the d...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

I seem to be the Typhoid Mary of snow

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Three weeks after I moved from Yankeeland to Atlanta, it snowed .  I've been in Castle Borepatch for three weeks and a day and it's ...
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Why we can't have nice things on the Internet, redux

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The Silicon Graybeard brings an epic rant.  You really need to RTWT, but this gives you the flavor : A running joke in the electronics har...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Attacks via Internet Dating sites

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I can't really say I'm surprised at this : At least five dating websites may be involved in an attack scenario that is spreading ...
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Beware Linkedin invitations

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It seems that there's a big spike in fake profiles on Linkedin.  These profiles are used by scammers to get information out of you that ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Fascist government goon says "What?"

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Actually, he said that anonymity of the Internet should be against the law : A senior Homeland Security official recently argued that Inte...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Entitled Internet reviewer is etitled

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I thought I was going to High Tea but found myself at a biker bar ...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

This is why we can't have nice things

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Smartphone photo of lock keyways enough to produce ready-to-print CAD drawings  for key: Hackers have been gifted with an online web servi...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Now this is how nature documentaries should be narrated

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Friday, January 15, 2016

With the "Internet Of Things" you got no stinkin' security

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The "Internet Of Things" is where companies stuff tiny computers with wifi into basically all consumer products - refrigerators, l...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Homeland Security: Gee, it's awful that all these power plants can get hacked

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Filed under "we're only surprised that you're willing to say this in public" : Utilities opening their infrastructure t...
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R.I.P. Alan Rickman

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Well, damn. He was one of my favorite actors for years.   Truly, Madly, Deeply is a great performance of his from back in the Die Hard / ...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Hillary Clinton: dead candidate walking

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The news over the weekend was about how the FBI is expanding their investigation of Hillary's email server from mishandling of classifie...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

R00t, r00t, r00t for the home team

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Filed under "not using your Powers for good" : The former scouting director of the St Louis Cardinals baseball club has admitte...
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