January 2010
16 posts
Computer security: fraud fears as scientists crack...
a movie rental company released an anonymous list of film-ratings taken from its 500,000 subscribers. Using a statistical “de-anonymisation” technique, the academics were able to identify individuals and their film preferences via guardian.co.uk
There’s no such thing as anonymous.
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Large databases can never be secure | Henry...
alleged he used the ECS system to look up the records of the prime minster, Alex Salmond, Jack McConnell, Celtic Football Club players, a newsreader named Jackie Bird and seven other BBC journalists via guardian.co.uk
Warning shot for public databases.
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UK ignores fears over Internet Explorer despite...
IE6 is extensively used by the British government, including UK armed forces: in response to parliamentary questions asked last year by Labour MP and former Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson, the Ministry of Defence, which has 300,000 desktops worldwide (including ships), said it was sticking with IE6, “and at the current time does not have a requirement to move to an updated...
Bob Willoughby obituary | Art and design |...
via guardian.co.uk
Photographer hired by Holywood studios to make actors look good.
How The New York Times Should Charge For...
via paidcontent.org
Idea to get paid customers - Make free content sell the value of paid content.
New Scottish Web Newspaper →
Reads like a riddle: It’s sort of paper but not paper. What is it?
“a major gap in the magazine market for a practical food magazine for mass-market...”
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Says a lot about the impracticality of what is currently on offer
Mags Come, Mags Go: New Titles Can Grow From The Rubble
| paidContent:UK
“Cameron dismissed Labour’s dossier as “complete junk” and...”
– Cameron error gives Labour first blood in election campaign | Politics | The Guardian
Election year starts.
“Lidl supermarket chain received several batches of high-grade cocaine at its...”
– A line too far for Lidl as 100kg of cocaine turns up in banana boxes | World news | The Guardian
Don’t get Thursday offers like that in England.
Burj Dubai: the world's tallest building... →
World’s tallest building officially opened
“8,000 European men were taken out one by one in 1995 and shot dead in a manner...”
– John Major rewrites history | Denis MacShane | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Tory John Major tries the Conservative trick of rewriting history to put him and the Tory Party in a good light.
Seesmic Blog: We've acquired Ping.fm. Get ready to... →
Seesmic.com buys ping.fm
What will happen to brizzly.com?
“No one had expected to find evidence of a warm, wet climate capable of...”
– New images show evidence of lakes on Mars, say scientists | Science | The Guardian
Life on Mars
“indecent picture of a child — “indecent” meaning showing the...”
– Body scanners: threat to children’s rights | Christina Zaba | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The madness of law that in stopping the use of body scanners at airports.
“the [Wi-Fi] technological equivalent of kryptonite in walls: chicken wire”
– Wi-Fi won’t travel through your house? It might be the wire in the walls |
Technology |
guardian.co.uk
The DIY Faraday Cage