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• Weekly Wrap 158: NSA and all the cybers, mostly

  18 June 2013 in Weekly Wrap

  My week Monday 10 to Sunday 16 June 2013 was dominated by the US National Security Agency (NSA). Well, by the news pertaining thereto. Funny world. I can’t be arsed writing about that any further today. Here’s the links, and you can ask me questions and initiate conversation in the comments. Which I may ignore. [...]

• Weekly Wrap 157: Too many spiders and dogs

  09 June 2013 in Weekly Wrap

  My week Monday 3 to Sunday 9 June 2013 was laid low by an excess of the black dog. Most unproductive. Most annoying. I’d intended things to be fairly quiet, to counterbalance the previous week’s hectic pace. Well, quiet it was, because it was the beginning of a new month and nobody had paid me [...]

• Hillary’s mangoes, no NSA involved

  08 June 2013 in History, Internet, Politics

  [I was in a bit of a mood on Thursday, so when The Guardian broke the news that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of American citizens, my tolerance for political arsehattery was nonexistent. Calls for street protests? Bah! My countermove was to tweet a bunch of nonsense, which is posted here as [...]

• Weekly Wrap 156: An excess of Sydney, with smog

  05 June 2013 in Weekly Wrap

  My week Monday 27 May to Sunday 2 June 2013 was rather different from how I first imagined it. I ended up spending much of it in Sydney, covering the CeBit Cyber Security conference and recording all manner of conversations — the results of the latter to appear over the coming weeks. Articles Security goes [...]

• Talking ASIO hack on BBC World Service

  01 June 2013 in Conversations, Internet, Media, Politics

  Monday night’s Four Corners episode claimed, amongst other thing, that Chinese hackers had stolen the plans to the new headquarters of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). It made global news, and as a result, I ended up being interviewed on the BBC World Service program World Have Your Say. The 15-minute live panel [...]