“Alistair Darling told the House of Commons that the discs containing the highly sensitive information failed to arrive after they were sent in the ordinary internal mail between government departments.”
This is the same Government that assures us nothing could possibly go wrong with a national ID card scheme connected to a biometric database.
Please remember this next time you happen to be voting.
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The system-restore data image for Apple’s new iPhone is already loose on the internet.
My money says it’ll be under a month before the first flashable mods for the OS are available. The term ‘closed system’ has a half-life, just like radioactives.
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After a week of flim-flam over a real non-story (Pluto will not change shape or size, no matter what it gets labelled as), it’s a real relief to find something in the RSS feeds that really gets your motor running. MIT’s eLens project is just such a thing. Continue reading “The Real World Web – envisioning a future of ubiquitous information”
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I’m sure that, like myself, many of you have a small (or not so small) pile of music CDs, CDRs and DVDs that will no longer play, thanks to them getting scratched. Continue reading “Rescue data from scratched CDs and DVDs”
The BBC reports on a Pentagon document detailing the US military’s approach to ‘information warfare’ (PDF format). A little quote:
From influencing public opinion through new media to designing “computer network attack” weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war. Continue reading “Don’t believe everything that you read/watch/hear…”
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