Witness statements in the UK High Court appeal by the Sunday Times to publish extracts from Richard Tomlinson’s book, The Big Breach, are available at Cryptome. The silent halls of the British intelligence establishment caving in on them?
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Overcoming the difficulties associated with quantum computing will probably be an uphill struggle, but the rewards are likely to prove worth every drop of effort.
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Ye olde 8-bit nudity, high-end graphic card not required. The best porn and girly pics from the C64.
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Baen Publishers are urging their writers to put their books on the Net. For free. Their logic being that it’s the same as giving away books for publicity purposes, only more cost-effective. I applaud them for embracing the traditional spirit of the Net, but might also point out that usually promotional copies of new books are given to people with influence who would not otherwise buy these books. The people most likely to be downloading the books off the Net will be people with relatively low influence, and who would likely have bought the book in the first place. A much better scheme would be to do time-limited promotions, offering a pre-publishing download and then cutting off. The underground trade in now “illicit” copies will do much more for sales.
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Marianne Faithfull, still the focus of many a young man’s fancy. A life well lived.
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I found Patricia Nell Warren’s comments to the National Academy of Science workshop on online porn highly insightful. If only her astoundingly level-headed view could be shared by more people, especially those in power.
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News as you’ve never seen it before: beautiful anchors, stripping while they deliver the highlights. Only featuring female anchors at the moment, though, so Ted Koppel and Wolf Blitzer fans might want to wait a while.
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“Perfect security requires a level of perfection that simply doesn’t exist, and in fact isn’t likely to ever exist.” Should that be read as an admission of guilt from Microsoft?
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The 2000 Darwin Awards have been released. Are they still funny? You decide.
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A 71-year old man from Maine, upon finding out that his 44-year old son had been “enjoying a sexual relationship with his dog”, tried to kill the son with a crowbar.
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A hacker may have stolen several million credit card numbers off the Egghead website, a crime considered the largest of its kind ever. Just imagine someone skimming millions of dollars off millions of credit card accounts, a few cents at a time… wait a minute, haven’t Visa and Mastercard been doing this for years?
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