What we're reading

A top British codebreaker found mysteriously dead last week in his flat had worked with the NSA and British intelligence to intercept e-mail messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the U....


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Interesting use of Access-Control-Allow-Origin header and Microformats to do client side scrapping
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Cycling, like cafe culture, is a civilizing force late arriving in nz
Revolution On The Streets :: Cycling in Auckland :: A cycle-pedia by regular people who ride...


Journalism Warning Labels It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or...


Vandalism has been linked to teen binge drinking, peer pressure, seeking money to buy drugs, and hostility towards property owners....


What seemed to be flaws in the structure of a mystery metal may have given physicists a glimpse into as-yet-undiscovered laws of the universe.
The qualities of a high-temperature...


Sometimes the best laid plans can be put out to pasture due to a lack
of foresight in regards to the ever changing, liquid landscape known...


Here's a video of a small town in Britain that turned its traffic lights off.  Order ensued.

The experiment is not unique. Tom...


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Horse bolts, Pentagon demands wikileaks shut stable door.

A Pentagon...


It's a pretty scary thing to receive a legal letter from the law firm of a large corporate, especially when they claim that you're in breach of their rights and then make a series of demands....


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quote: Looks like this malware was made for espionage
We've received plenty of information over the past couple days about this alleged vulnerability in Windows's lnk...


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Building a Black Swan Robust Society
The bestselling economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that we can’t make the world financial system immune to shocks –– but we...


Adam
is one of the organisers of Kiwicon, and has presented
on this topic in Singapore.

Using tools to capture / probe network traffic.

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To paraphrase. "Cyberwar" is a hyped up term designed to make people think that there is a threat from the internet that can only be defended by the government.


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lolz
Social networking experiment with phony female military intelligence profile fooled even the most security-savvy on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter -- and also led...


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Would you join an ISP called Fedztel?

The provision of better comunication services to the rural sector has always been an issue with Federated Farmers, and now...


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The exemplary specimen of what were labelled, in the early 1980s, the ‘chattering classes...


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HT teamcymru: "A crypto system's best endorsement: even gov't hackers can't break into TrueCrypt"
The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source...


short version of how crap laws happen in NZ: after the public get their say and select commitee comes to a conclusion, a last second amendment happens to the bill/act in the house
unfolding...


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Awesome, I hope this data makes it to the google elevation api soon. Current accuracy is about 100m tiles I think
Two radar satellites flying in close formation are...


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Interesting article about Goldman Sachs' role in bailouts and manipulation of gas (petrol) prices. Somewhat biased but a good read.


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NZ aplogises to China over scuffle?
China's government offered its side of the story of Friday's scuffle between a New Zealand legislator and members of a visiting...