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Security By Audacity

yorksranter wrote 1 month ago: Does anyone else think the reason the Oystercard system had a multi-hour outage might be somehow con … more →

Tags: Geekage, id, Electronics

Reduced Blog

yorksranter wrote 2 months ago: Less blogging than usual due to OpenTech 2008 preparations. Must keep hacking, the clowns are gainin … more →

Tags: Viktor, Politics, Hacker, Geekage, Protest, Computer, Programming, Python, Action

Get public attention with poetry, not bombs2 comments

yorksranter wrote 2 months ago: OK, so have you heard the one about the bloke from Goole who was planning to start his own race war? … more →

Tags: Religion, Strategy, Class, Ideology, Terrorism, Crime, cultures of war, Al-Qaida, Mindless violence

mystery train

yorksranter wrote 2 months ago: Ho ho ho. Another pack of secret docs left on a South West Train. One of the compensations of commut … more →

Tags: home office, Politics, SWT

one intelligent soldier1 comment

yorksranter wrote 2 months ago: Said Sir Michael Rose, speaking at the SAS passing-out parade in 1979: One intelligent soldier can a … more →

Tags: 4GW, british army, Politics, History, id, Conservatives, home office, Protest, Ideology

selling the dummy

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: Here’s an interesting question about the finally-released Senate Intelligence Committee Phase … more →

Tags: iraq, Politics, special relationships, spy

Now that's what I call scienciness

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: So, the US Army’s research centre employs a climate-change denier as a scientist, and then set … more →

Tags: corruption, Politics, Conservatives, Fisking, Ideology

Pathetic Political Python Again

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: Here’s a visualisation of today’s output from the Viktor Bout script, version 2.5, with … more →

Tags: Viktor, 4GW, Aviation, Politics, Hacker, Geekage, Protest, Internet, Networks

I View the Checksum: It was Exum

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: Turns out Abu Muq was Andrew Exum all along. Which is interesting; I’d read and been impressed … more →

Tags: 4GW, Internet, cultures of war, mastur/metablogging

which in your case you have not got

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: Remember when we nixed the January 2007 Iranian weapons scare? We explained how pretty much any comp … more →

Tags: 4GW, iraq

What if they staged a coup and nobody came?

yorksranter wrote 5 months ago: Crack BBC journo Peter Taylor’s film The Secret Peacemaker, about Brendan Duddy, the man who m … more →

Tags: 4GW, Politics, History, Tories, Conservatives, Strategy, Terrorism, special relationships, spy

No. Just No. Just No.3 comments

yorksranter wrote 5 months ago: ACPO is no longer tolerable as an organisation. It’s a freefloating lobby for ever-greater aut … more →

Tags: Surveillance, id, home office, John Reid, Protest, stupid procurement, moral horror, Biometrics

Anti-Link

yorksranter wrote 5 months ago: One of the many wonderful things about the Web is that its hypertext structure not only permits us t … more →

Tags: Hacker, Internet, democracy, Rationality, censorship, Networks, language, Action, Funny ha ha

Review: "Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates", David Wootton3 comments

yorksranter wrote 7 months ago: How did a set of medical techniques and institutional styles with absolutely no therapeutic value su … more →

Tags: History, NHS, Books, Rationality

Stockwell Report: A Response2 comments

yorksranter wrote 10 months ago: The IPCC report is, first of all, a cracking job of work, despite that the Met did its level best to … more →

Tags: Updated, home office, moral horror, Terrorism, met, Networks

Your Professional National Press1 comment

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: So the cult of the amateur is killing our culture, right? What if I was to tell you that bloggers ha … more →

Tags: Surveillance, GSM, home office, press

The Next Big Miscarriage of Justice5 comments

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: What would you think if I told you the police had accused 5,000 British citizens of a really unpleas … more →

Tags: id, home office, Internet, Crime, met

The Rays from Outer Space Strike Canary Wharf2 comments

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: The Sindy has been getting a lot of blogosphere points for this article, which alleges that a myster … more →

Tags: press, statistics, bad science

Maglev is Dead3 comments

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: OK. Remember a few months ago, the Sundays were briefed about one of Tony’s eye-catching initi … more →

Tags: Theory, Trains, Two's


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