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Censorship is inseparable from surveillance | Technology | guardian.co.uk
'In order to stop you from visiting www.jamesjoycesulysses.com, the national censorwall must intercept all your outgoing internet requests and examine them to determine whether they are for the banned website. That's the difference between the old days of censorship and our new digital censorship world. Today, censorship is inseparable from surveillance.' Very good point from Cory Doctorow
cory-doctorow  censorship  surveillance  firewalls  privacy  internet  freedom 
12 weeks ago by jm
Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
'Predator and Reaper crews use removable hard drives to load map updates and transport mission videos from one computer to another. The virus is believed to have spread through these removable drives.'
hmm, not quite sure how that air gap is supposed to work
air-gap  security  drones  viruses  firewalls 
october 2011 by jm
GitHub outage post-mortem
continuous-integration system was accidentally run against the production db. result: the entire production database got wiped. ouuuuch
ouch  github  outages  post-mortem  databases  testing  c-i  production  firewalls  from delicious
november 2010 by jm

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