I have been following the Sony Hack and its fallout. Here are my bookmarks. Continue reading “Sony Hack”
Sony Hack

I have been following the Sony Hack and its fallout. Here are my bookmarks. Continue reading “Sony Hack”
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Yvette Cooper speech to Demos in March 2014 here, from Labour Press’ tumblr account.
it’s clearly aimed at fighting terrorism, child abuse and defending the ecommerce infrastructure
At the same time the Prime Minister has also said that GCHQ and the NSA can do more to tackle child pornography on the dark net, to “decrypt encrypted files, and… find out what is going on”. A new strategy is needed to make sure the fight against online child abuse can keep up with new technology – including looking at the legal framework, resources, structures and the role for the private sector and internet service providers to do more.
Cameron’s been watching CSIcyber again, but Yvette’s response is reasoned
The summary reseats the speech in the legal powers and supervison policy domain.
I rather like this,
The digital age generates every second new and amazing opportunities that we should seize. But we cannot duck our responsibilities to face up to the difficult challenges it poses too – to make sure that the digital age serves the public and our democracy, and not the other way round.
What I plan to say on the Euro Husting blog article, which picks up the press articles, Guardian and Register
… pointed to Yvette Cooper’s speech to Demos on the balance between security and privacy in the internet age. I have to say, I missed this when it was reported by the Guardian, and would have been unsurprised by the Register’s hostile headline but we can read the speech for ourselves here. Id’ say it’s better than its critics suggest; there’s a growing consensus that RIPA gets it wrong and the recognition that privacy is part of the balance is a better position than the Tories and spies take and that many had expected from the Labour Front bench.
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Perhaps I’ll retitle this when I have viewed the video cast.
Torrentfreak previews the next TPB evolution, a correspondent in their comments, called warcaster, made the following comments, Continue reading “Securing the Interet”
I need to revise file transfer over TCP/IP. This article consists of links on encryption, sftp man pages, restricting shell escapes, sshd, ssh keys, restarts and scp. Continue reading “File Transfer”
Looking at DNS and the attempt to P2P it.
Peter Sunde launched a project, reported at Computer World in an article called “P2P DNS to take on ICANN after US domain seizures”
It seems to have got stuck. This article dated 18 Oct 2011 and called Continuing the Distributed DNS System on Slashdot has some pointers. See also P2P-DNS taking control of the Internet at memeburn.com.
The nearest successor seems to be namecoin, see http://namecoin.info/ , https://bit.namecoin.org & its wikipedia page
While researching this in 2013 I came across a page on alternate roots at Wikipedia.
In 2020, I had another look, and came across https://www.namecoin.org/, here’s a query on Bruce Schneier’s site. Other’s imply that the only answer is to move to broadcast protocols, why not? It’s what ethernet is/was.
Building a new laptop is always a fraught exercise and in this case I am upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional. I am also upgrading from a Dell Latitude to HP Probook 5320m. Continue reading “Building a W7 laptop”
This was originally entitled “Our New XP Box”. I changed the title when I copied the snip across to WordPress in July 2013. I marked the snip as deprecated in June 2019, added a picture to remind me. Here are my notes; the tags give a pretty good idea of what I needed to write about. This was an XP system and I wrote about external devices, anti-virus, fax and video capture. Continue reading “Dell Dimension 5150c”
My notes, but it’s been a long time since I used it. Jan 2019 Continue reading “London Heathrow (LHR)”