Censorship is inseparable from surveillance | Technology | guardian.co.uk
12 weeks ago by jm
'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
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12 weeks ago by jm
Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
october 2011 by jm
'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
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hmm, not quite sure how that air gap is supposed to work
october 2011 by jm
GitHub outage post-mortem
november 2010 by jm
continuous-integration system was accidentally run against the production db. result: the entire production database got wiped. ouuuuch
ouch
github
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databases
testing
c-i
production
firewalls
from delicious
november 2010 by jm
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