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Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid

YouTube - Full Metal Jacket - German

This is even better than the environmental racism protest outside of work the other day.

DESTROY THE COMPUTER!!!

Inspired by similarly minded individuals and organizations this site was founded with the intention to bring together similarly themed news and rants related to Web security and to display them in one place.

Planet-Websecurity.org: good news brought together

"We have information on security practices out there. The disconnect is that we don't have an intermediary that says how these things apply to you as you build Web 2.0 or other applications," Hoffman said. "Will a nonprofit or some other group arise that tries to publish standards? Probably. We definitely need a central clearing house of good information, because there is a lot of bad information out there."

Are there any articles on Web 2.0 security out there that are not made up of Billy Hoffman quotes? I hope not..

Last year, Lamo earned the disapproval of his probation officer in the closing months of his two year probation term when he refused to provide a blood sample for the FBI's DNA database.

He only has to give 8 cheek swabs instead.

"I intend to vigorously comply with the proposed court order," Lamo said in a telephone call Wednesday night. "They've requested eight samples, but I've never been one to do the minimum. I'm willing to give up 16, or 32. Any other power of two that they want."

Adrian Lamo Keeps His Blood

We've all been whining about the "corruption" of government forever. We all should be whining about the corruption of professions too. But rather than whining, I want to work on this problem that I've come to believe is the most important problem in making government work.

How does Finland do it?

It is interesting that the name of the Berlin agency that ranks perceived corruption of countries is called "Transparency International".

I also think it is interesting that the trend of transparency in professional organizations seems to be leading to a decrease in perceived corruption.

From Wired 15.04 cover story:

Smart companies are sharing secrets with rivals, blogging about products in their pipeline, even admitting to their failures. The name of this new game is RADICAL TRANSPARENCY, and it's sweeping boardrooms across the nation.

See... even Michael Scott gets it.

Is the key to eliminating corruption being transparent?

Acidus wrote:
On June 4 I posted an MD5 checksum 98a358d372c87da29509a44cc3ec387f

acidus@hatter:~$ cat purchase.txt
SPI will be purchased by HP in June or July
acidus@hatter:~$ md5
md5               md5sum            md5sum.textutils
acidus@hatter:~$ md5sum purchase.txt
98a358d372c87da29509a44cc3ec387f  purchase.txt
acidus@hatter:~$

Sure enough: HP buys SPI.

Today is only my 2nd day working at SPI. I wonder what will happen tomorrow...

RE: MD5's predict the Future!

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You might like to read this list when you're bored. It's always good for a laugh. It is also the first place I read about the Gay Bomb.

Unusual Articles ala Wikipedia

Decius wrote: Yes, if you walk out of a strip club and your girlfriend is driving by, its not like she was doing anything wrong. She didn't violate your privacy.

Are the chances of being caught by the Google Van more likely than being caught by someone you know personally? Being caught in the act of something shady and anyone being able to Google it is more permanent, but I think people should be more concerned with the Kevin Bacon effect than Google Street View for now. By the way, I’m pretty sure the guy Decius made an example out of doesn’t have a girlfriend, so he should be in the clear. Maybe we should be more worried about insecure private cameras.

Decius wrote: You've no 4th amendment right to privacy in regard to the phone numbers you've dialed, because the phone company presumptively knows them, and you have to presume that they might tell the police. However, generally you wouldn't.

Your point about phones goes for security cameras as well. As we become increasingly more watched, and with the government able to subpoena video footage taken from a "private" security cameras, we’re getting closer to enabling totalitarian surveillance but at the same time enabling justice to better be served.

This service will really help people that need landmarks to follow directions and navigate today's urban jungle. In my opinion the benefits of street view navigation out weigh the privacy concerns.

RE: Boing Boing: Google Maps is spying on my cat, says freaked out BB reader