david smalley

I'm a British Ruby hacker who co-owns Litmus. I talk about tech, support The Open Rights Group and run a small family complete with two white fluffy dogs.

Follow up on the post linked to about US Drones having no encryption on the video feeds. As usual, Schneier nails it:

“Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still…”

Now, let’s try Islam. Type in “Islam is” and you will see…

Absolutely nothing. That’s correct. Google makes no recommendations based on searches of “Islam Is.”

Why is Google blocking search recommendations for “Islam is?”

What did they expect, the lyric they asked him not to sing says it all.

“The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn’t know how to exploit it, the officials said.”
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones - WSJ.com

“I log into my PayPal account and what do I see? “For my protection” they have limited the ability of my account to withdraw or send money but most severely, they also disallowed the account to receive payments!”

Last night I was lucky to find the time to go and see John’s band play. I got a load of snaps and some video of most of the gig as well. A thoroughly enjoyable gig, will definitely be going again.

Last night I was lucky to find the time to go and see John’s band play. I got a load of snaps and some video of most of the gig as well. A thoroughly enjoyable gig, will definitely be going again.

Last night me, Paul and Matt were on the Stackoverflow Podcast with Jeff and Joel. We were honoured to be asked on and had great fun. It should be up in a couple of weeks time.

Last night me, Paul and Matt were on the Stackoverflow Podcast with Jeff and Joel. We were honoured to be asked on and had great fun. It should be up in a couple of weeks time.

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