Pinboard: bookmarks for jm tagged 'uk'

UK Channel 4 News Demo – Contactless Payment Cards – viaForensics

'During an interview with the Channel 4 correspondent we were able to touch his wallet with an Android phone while he was distracted and capture his credit card details.' ... 'viaForensics found that there are many cards in circulation, including recently issued cards, which are giving up the full card number, expiry, surname and initials.' Barclays security fail hits the headlines (via Tony Finch)

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21 days ago by jm

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BBC News - Sentinel project research reveals UK GPS jammer use

GPS jamming was this commonplace? I had no idea. '"We believe there's between 50 and 450 occurrences in the UK every day," said Charles Curry of Chronos Technology, the company leading the project, though he stressed that they were still analysing the data.' [...] "Most of them are used by people who don't want their vehicles to be tracked." (via Tim Bunce)

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february 2012 by jm

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Punching through The Great Firewall of T-Mobile

well, this is bizarre -- it seems T-Mobile UK are blocking encrypted email submission and OpenVPN traffic in their mobile internet access products. Why? Who knows -- but at least filtering RST packets evades the block, as in the Great Firewall of China

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january 2012 by jm

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Unbound: The Crowdfunding Cargo Cult – Telegraph Blogs

'why was Unbound set up in the first place? It’s because they constructed a cargo cult, believing that if they mimicked the superficial elements of successful crowdfunding, they could enjoy the same success as others – but perhaps even more, thanks to their relationships with publishers, agents, authors, and the media.' They're not the only Kickstarter-cargo-culting company, too. via waxy

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july 2011 by jm

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The Hargreaves Report

'The publication of Digital Opportunity follows a six-month independent review of IP and Growth, led by Professor Ian Hargreaves. He was asked to consider how the national and international IP system can best work to promote innovation and growth.' Some fantastic recommendations here. I hope this provides clear direction to similar Irish efforts...

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may 2011 by jm

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#O2Fail – What You Need To Know About Mobile Phone Content Control

'Because it’s easy for a kid to find a site that isn’t blocked – or to “borrow” mum or dad’s credit card – it’s of no serious concern to the intrepid kid. It does suck if they want to find out how not to get AIDS though. So, we’re stuck with a situation that’s expensive for MNOs, embarrassing and annoying for consenting adults, and trivial for a child to bypass.'

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march 2011 by jm

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O2's page on their new "block 18+ content on mobile internet" policy

O2 UK have just instituted a mandatory block for all "18+" content, which is only removed once the customer pays a UKP1 fee via credit card (which is immediately refunded). Twitter is *full* of angry UK O2 users right now

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march 2011 by jm

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ACS Law, MediaCAT ruling could kill the [UK Digital Economy Act]

'offenders must be identified by their IP address. In his judgement, Birss cast doubt on the accuracy with which this link could be made, due to the problem of unauthorised users gaining access to a unsecured networks.' wow, the judgement that keeps on giving

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february 2011 by jm

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Anti-piracy lawyers 'knowingly targeted the innocent', says law body

'Following complaints to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Davenport Lyons now stands accused of deliberately ignoring concerns over the standard of its evidence. It matched IP addresses captured from movie and videogame BitTorrent swarms with customer records obtained from ISPs by court order. David Gore and Brian Miller, two Davenport Lyons partners, will face disciplinary proceedings in March.'

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november 2010 by jm

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law firm's mocking of 4chan could cost it £500k

'Off-the-cuff bravado aimed at [4chan] has led to what must already rank as one of the worst ever data leaks, by the anti-filesharing solicitors ACS:Law' [...] 'the law firm is faced with the threat of a fine by the [UK] Information Commissioner, who is keen to use new powers that raise the maximum penalty to £500,000.'

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september 2010 by jm

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Nick Clegg - Conservapedia

Conservapedia gold. "His father was half-English, half-Russian. His mother was dutch. He speaks English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish. His wife is Roman Catholic. Aged sixteen, Clegg was arrested in Germany and charged with arson. He and his friends destroyed a priceless collection of rare cacti while he was drunk."

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april 2010 by jm

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Heathrow security man "ogles" female colleague's breasts using full-body scanner

'John Laker, 25, allegedly copped an eyeful of Jo Margetson, 29, when the latter "entered the X-ray machine by mistake". She was "horrified" as Laker "pressed a button to take a revealing photo" and remarked [on the size of her breasts].' as Conrad says, "who didn't see this coming?" Wonder how many other "revealing photos" are on that hard drive

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march 2010 by jm

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Mobile Internet access data retention (not!)

so, it seems the wireless ISPs don't have sufficient IPv4 space for their customers, and are filtering access to the internet via NAT; unfortunate side effect is that this breaks data retention as defined in the UK. wonder if the same applies here?

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january 2010 by jm

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O2 Ireland blocking sites listed in the UK IWF list

supposedly should only list child porn sites, but sounds like it's got frequent false positives on file upload/download services nowadays

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october 2009 by jm

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Stephen Hawking Has Not Yet Been Murdered by the NHS

hilarious response to mind-boggling US healthcare talking-point derpitude: 'People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.' fantastic

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august 2009 by jm

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Internet access is Britons' top priority

'Britons will choose to cut back on almost anything other than food before economising on electronic communications services. Crucially, we will even cut spending on their mobile phone and TV package before foregoing Internet access'

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august 2009 by jm

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UK company selling "have you been phished" check using stolen data

according to this, a retired cop has set up a company called Lucid Intelligence with 'the records of four million Britons, and 40 million people worldwide, mostly Americans', and plans to 'charge members of the public for access to his database to check whether their data security has been breached.' How is this legal under Data Protection law? wtf

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july 2009 by jm

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