by Tom | Nov 18, 2013 | Personal, Reading
I love this. An enterprising coder and crossworder has taken inspiration from xkcd on the Adobe password leak and generated crosswords from the password hints and the crossword hashes. My lord there are some insecure passwords out there. Adobe Crossword....
by Tom | Nov 15, 2013 | Government, Hong Kong / China, Reading
A thought-provoking set of images that have been removed from Weibo. The inability of China to censor the internet outside China has similarities to the Conservative speech archive silliness. Glad that ProPublica is curating this. Covering up part of the sign leaves:...
by Tom | Nov 12, 2013 | Government, Personal, Reading
Wow, some must-read articles on new legislation working its way through the UK parliament. I get and salute the need for simplification of existing legislation, but we should not approach this through over-generality and vagueness. Descent into 1984 (because I...
by Tom | Nov 5, 2013 | Reading, Tech
Brilliant. And scary: your password was just cracked. Get Lastpass and change your passwords. It's now about how unusual your password is rather than how strong. Are 20-digit passwords close to GUIDs? Link: http://xkcd.com/1286/
by Tom | Oct 10, 2013 | Reading
Yes: this. But there is something more here. How does one party that has lost two presidential elections and a Supreme Court case – as well as two Senate elections -  think it has the right to shut down the entire government and destroy the full faith and...
by Tom | Oct 4, 2013 | Business, Reading
Cracking stuff from Tim O'Reilly. And this from Michael White. You never know what book you wrote until you know what book people read.
