Security
Technology
Apparently, the NSA may have at least known of this bug for a long time, and you can bet your boots they’ve exploited it against someone. Given their propensity for reading the communications of all and sundry, I somehow doubt that only the ‘bad guys’* were targeted. In any case, if the NSA knew about […]
Security
Technology
Just when you might have thought it safe to wander out, a reminder that those heartbeats in TLS work both ways, so a malicious server could compromise your client (browser, VPN, and so on) with interesting results. Check https://reverseheartbleed.com/
Bits & Bobs
Photography
Want
I’m tempted by this little old-school Voigtlander Vitoret DR German 35mm Cameraon eBay (pear not included according to the seller). There’s something nice about manual photography…
Big Business
Regulation
Remember the big stockpiling exercise by Governments of Tamiflu for our benefit in the event of a pandemic a few years back? Looks like all that money was wasted … So does Tamiflu work? From the Cochrane analysis – fully public – Tamiflu does not reduce the number of hospitalisations. There wasn’t enough data to […]
People
Security
Technology
OpenSSL is not developed by a responsible team. via Re: FYA: http: heartbleed.com.
Politics
And rightly so. As Dr. Quinlivan points out: In 2006, I remember interviewing the Mayor of Schenectady (New York), Brian Stratton, who made a very persuasive case to me for directly elected mayors. He said that when he was elected mayor he inherited a fiscal train wreck but was able to turn things around because […]
Life
Dave Winer: The best way to learn something is to start doing it. Don’t wait for full knowledge to come to you. Often it won’t. Just pretend you know what you’re doing, and hit the walls. That helps define the shape of the problem. Make it small enough that you can start solving it right […]