If you haven’t seen the Talking Heads True Stories you should. [amazon] But that’s not what we’re going to be talking about today. I just needed a title for the blog posting, and that got me thinking.
Stderr
All the unbuffered error messages
If you haven’t seen the Talking Heads True Stories you should. [amazon] But that’s not what we’re going to be talking about today. I just needed a title for the blog posting, and that got me thinking.
Please remember that email is not a secure communications medium. Do not say anything in an email that you would not be comfortable seeing on a bathroom wall or on CNN.
I made a bad move when I used HJ Hornbeck’s posting on bayesian reasoning about Russian hacking as a jumping-off point for a critique of using bayesian reasoning to attempt to predict events.
This is a pretty fair view into what the high-end hacker’s existence is like. There are blurry lines everywhere, so it’s a bit hard to even say what is “hacking” versus “marketing” or “information operations” – it’s complicated.
When I first stumbled across the works of Tatjana Van Vark, back in the ’90s, I was completely blown away. I still am, and I check her site every year or so to see if she’s published anything new.
To get to Lavecon, I took the midlands train from London/Euston up toward Birmingham, and got off at Northampton. On the way up, I went past Bletchley, the home of Bletchley Park – where the British code-breakers (including Alan Turing) worked during WWII.
I clicked on the folder for my media archive, so I could paste the images I wanted to save off my iPhone, and instead I just got a spinning icon.
I’ve decided to celebrate June 10 as Facial Recognition Day. On this day, every year, I will try to think of some way to interfere with facial recognition.
I pointed this problem out during my “cyberwar is bullshit” talk at RSA conference in 2012: once you begin using your cyberweapons, they become subject to commercial pressures: and competitive analysis.
In the wake of the latest terror attack, Theresa May was quick to begin banging the surveillance state’s favorite rhythm.