Bruce Schneier has posted the final part of his five part interview with the TSA Administrator Kip Hawley.
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Public Wi-Fi Cookie Exploit
Robert Graham of Errata Security has demonstrated at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas an exploit that allows attackers to login to users accounts without a password on webmail and social networking sites by stealing cookies.
Attackers would be able to real and post messages posing as the genuine user of the account, they would not however be able to make any major changes to any accounts they had hijacked as sites require users to enter a password for such activities.
Perhaps it’s just me but The Wire seems to be rising to the surface amongst people’s collective unconscious recently. I’ve just finished rewatching all four seasons of the show and many of my friends who also watch it have been rewatching episodes recently too.
Two of the best scenes of ‘the best show on television’.
The Wire – Omar gives evidence against Bird Hilton
The All-“Fuck” Murder Investigation Scene from The Wire
Metafilter loves The Wire, and so does The Guardian newspaper.
Television Without Pity has started to do recaps
Snoop Pearson talks to The Washington Post about the ‘Role of Her Life’
Slate breaks down The Wire and analyzes it.
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Superman at SDCC
Brilliant composition in this photograph with the lady on the seat giving just a glance out of the corner of her eye to Superman walking past her.
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Short Circuit to be re-circuited
I watched Short Circuit today on TV and got to wondering who did the voice of Number 5 and discovered to my mild horror that there is a remake in production. I’m always a little wary of remakes of pop culture from my childhood but have to admit that if they do a good job I’d be pretty happy to see more of Johnny Five also if this starts a trend of 80s remakes I’d be stoked to see the Gremlins return.
I also stumbled across the following semi-connected website Input-inc.com/
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Cool Moo Sticker Books
I might just have to create a sticker book from my Flickr photostream.
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Copyright for kids
Copyright rights, unregulated uses, and fair use is kid’s stuff
Lawyer Erik J. Heels explained copyright law to his friend’s daughter using the above drawing. [via]
Nice simple breakdown of copyright in my opinion.
Bruce Schneier reports that the New Harry Potter Book Leaked on BitTorrent and that he’s been fielding press calls all day about it.
It’s online: digital photographs of every page are available on BitTorrent.
I’ve been fielding press calls on this, mostly from reporters asking me what the publisher could have done differently. Honestly, I don’t think it was possible to keep the book under wraps. There are millions of copies of the book headed to all four corners of the globe. There are simply too many people who must be trusted in order for the security to hold. And all it takes is one untrustworthy person — one truck driver, one bookstore owner, one warehouse worker — to leak the book.
But conversely, I don’t think the publishers should care. Anyone fan-crazed enough to read digital photographs of the pages a few days before the real copy comes out is also someone who is going to buy a real copy. And anyone who will read the digital photographs instead of the real book would have borrowed a copy from a friend. My guess is that the publishers will lose zero sales, and that the pre-release will simply increase the press frenzy.
I’m kind of amazed the book hadn’t leaked sooner.
And, of course, it is inevitable that we’ll get ASCII copies of the book post-publication, for all of you who want to read it on your PDA.
Harry Potter Fans Transcribe Book from Photos
Scholastic Loses It Over Harry Potter/BitTorent Story
The Harry Potter leaker left the EXIF data still in the jpgs they created.
This piece by Mike Read explaining why he’s Backing Boris Johnson for London Mayor is one of the funniest things I’ve read in ages especially some of the comments.
I’d swear it was a spoof written by Harry Enfield if I believed that Enfield was still funny.
It’s essential for Boris to be much, much tougher on the persistently antisocial, making sure that rapists, murderers and paedophiles have no place, and never will, on the streets of London, and will not threaten civilised society.
I’ve spoken to lots of young kids in gangs or “crews” as they prefer to be known and most want to get out of a way of life that gives them nothing. Get in there … understand their problems and give them access to sporting facilities and the chance to make music, act, dance and write. Get them integrated into society and to realise its value.
Jeffrey Lee is not interested in the soaring price of uranium, which could make him one of the world’s richest men.
“This is my country. Look, it’s beautiful and I fear somebody will disturb it,” he says, waving his arm across a view of rocky land surrounded by Kakadu National Park, where the French energy giant Areva wants to extract 14,000 tonnes of uranium worth more than $5 billion.
This is pretty cool that he values the beauty of the land over the wealth that land could produce for him.