Tag: Security
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NSA Dick Pics Sheriff
YouTube has been pulled (and the official video is Geoblocked in the UK, because obviously John Olliver has no fans in his home country!) but it’s on Facebook, or for some time, maybe, Vid.Me or DailyMotion: John Olliver interviewed Edward Snowden, as well as grilling him he also helped him communicate to the American public…
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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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Public Service Messages
Some of you might recognise some of this footage from Godfrey Reggio’s 1974 commercials for the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union, as I used bits for one of my Kleptones videos. I got it from a documentary about Godfrey, but good to see the full adverts at last, they are beautiful. And they still seem…
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WordPress Security 101
Running several WordPress sites, especially ones that gather a lot of welcome and unwelcome visitors, is a crash course in security. I’ve been using WordPress since version 1.2, where hacks were much more common, and thankfully have only been hacked once *touch wood*, back in the 1.5 days. For those not part of the WordPress…
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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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Hack the charts
Amazing talk from Peter Filimore, an Australia security researcher, investigating hacking streaming services like Rdio and Spotify to make his test albums #1 and also get royalties. Amazing how little security checks there are…and how funny the ‘music’ and albums he put up there was, and some of the responses to his ‘Troll Music’ Also…