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Surprise!! You've Been Burgled

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Surprise!! You've Been BurgledHow surprised and shocked would you be if you came home, in the knowledge that no one has been home all day, to find a full sized box sitting on the floor just inside your front door? Not only is there a box, but it also nicely advertising that it was incredibly easy to break into your house with the …

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Do "Terrorist Nations" Fear Terrorists?

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Do "Terrorist Nations" Fear Terrorists?I've just finished "reading" (I actually listened to the audiobook) Cory Doctorow's latest novel: Little Brother (free to download in various formats or buy it from Amazon).

It's a book set in the near future in San Francisco and is "a scarily realistic adventure about how homeland security technology could be abused to wrongfully imprison innocent Americans." Think of it as…

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Interesting Links for 5 Mar 08 - 9 Mar 08

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Interesting links for 5 Mar 08 - 9 Mar 08:

• Records tumble in Proteas' win - Ooo, that's got to have hurt Bangladesh. They were savaged by South Africa
• Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV - Looks promising if it turns out to be a viable option for the future.
• Low-tech Magazine: A world without trucks - Some Western…

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Interesting Links for 19 Feb 08 - 28 Feb 08

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Interesting links for 19 Feb 08 - 28 Feb 08:

• Solaris Features: Service Management Facility - A great introductory tutorial on Solaris 10's "Service Management Facility" (SMF).
• PIN Entry Device (PED) vulnerabilities - So Chip And PIN is not quite a secure as the banks would have you believe, and something as simple as not trying to save a …

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Interesting Links for 4 Dec 07 - 10 Jan 08

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Interesting links for 4 Dec 07 - 10 Jan 08:

• Government rejects elephants for pets e-petition - Killjoys!!! I was quite keen on being able to have a little bit of Africa in my back garden (when I get one. A garden that is).
• Man's death unnoticed for a year - Wow!! A whole year before anyone missed him. …

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Interesting Links for 22 April 2007 - 17 May 2007

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Interesting links for 22 April 2007 - 17 May 2007:

• Baby Bubba's got a Beretta - Only in America. The best part, the kid's name really is Bubba.
• Monorail to link Joburg and Soweto - How cool is this. First Gautrain and now this. If they can keep this kind of development up, 2010 will be a breeze.
• Zimbabwe…

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I Know Where That Is

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I Know Where That IsEveryone is well aware of the terrorism plot foiled by the police the other day, but I've just found out that one of the internet cafes raided, after the event as part of evidence gathering, is just down the road from us. Claire and I actually walked right past this place on Thursday evening. Looks like someone has been a …

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Genius!!

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Genius!!Thanks to yesterday's foiling of a terrorist plot to use liquid explosives in a bid to blow several planes out of the sky, everyone flying from the UK can have no hand luggage.

In the US, things are completely different...

You can have hand luggage, but no liquids or gels. You have to dump your liquids before the security check point …

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