Tag: Hacker
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Watching Apple & Scotland with Russell Brand
Amazing that Apple has so much money offshore it could end world poverty in a heartbeat (monitor)…and I find it odd the conversation about the iCloud hacks has avoided talking about NSA and spying implications for cloud storage (which Russell isn’t interested in covering, which I understand as it’s a bit of a sideshow issue…
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How to secure WordPress
Horrified by the amount of login attempts my WordPress sites gets (something in the region of 1-5 a day, sometimes more – and this is after each one being blocked), I tweeted today about locking down your WordPress. I’ve already had a few responses confirming that they too have this deluge of hackery, some of…
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NSA PIXAR ident and other parodies
Love this…I’ve not spoken much about NSA or PRISM partly because I’ve made my position clear in previous posts over the years – and a lot of this was suspected, or rumoured for decades. And also when the legislation and previous acts came to light very few people especially those in the US seemed to…
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Cloudy thinking, or as Wired shows you can never be too paranoid
Reading about Mat Honan and his hacking experience on Wired’s blog reminded me that you can never be too paranoid either in security or backups. It brings up a new set of issues, well not actually new to those who were already working in this sphere, but new to the public at large. Which is…
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RC 164: Are you ready? (Oddz and Sods 9)
Well are ya, punk? I’m ready for a long sitdown and a nice cup of tea (66.6Mb, 86mins) Sandie Shaw – Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? Camera Obscura – Lloyd I’m Ready to be Heartbroken The Found Sound Orchestra – Cold Rock Party GC v IDM – GC v IDM RIAA – Mind Control…
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Podcasting Hacks
My reading for the flight has arrived – it’s the new O’Reilly book Podcasting Hacks. It’s amazing who’s also been involved in this book – I didn’t know until I received a copy that the hacks are written by many of the podcasting community including Brian Ibbot, Michael Geohegan, Craig Pratchett, Phil Torrone, edited by…