Or, like LAX or JFK New York, we could have Sydney KLF. I could live with that. youtube.com/watch?v=aqxtBg… #newairportname
I assume they’ll name Sydney’s new airport after a famous Australian flyer. So, the Bob Carr International Airport it is. #newairportname
NewtonMark Great line from that article: “… the senior ministers who matter have come to a decision…” Fuck all those other senior ministers.
RT @RachaelHasIdeas: John Winston Howard International Airport #newairportname [And… we have a hashtag. You know how this works, right?]
fgilardi - The Swiss President is coming
- Swedish?
- No, Swiss
- Gotcha
—> Swiss President welcomed w/ Danish flag pic.twitter.com/R9dKv6nVfi
I assume they’ll name Sydney’s new airport after a famous Australian flyer. So, the Bob Carr International Airport it is.
@semibogan @SnarkyPlatypus ASD? The platypus is the AFP’s symbol. afp.gov.au/media-centre/p…
@semibogan @SnarkyPlatypus Wot me? I think I’ve gone all the way to not having a Facebook account. No-one can find me now.
“Badgerys Creek to be named as Sydney’s second airport”, reports @smh smh.com.au/nsw/badgerys-c…
@SnarkyPlatypus I couldn’t possibly comment.
@mpesce Work with it, Mark, you might get a new car out of it.
@semibogan @SnarkyPlatypus I am sure that linguists at GCHQ or ASD can confirm that I did not write this.
RT @semibogan: Whoever commissioned Blackout at the BBC needs a bullet. [Just the one?]
Banksy’s “crudely efficient style [is] glib satire … to impress his bourgeois public.” theguardian.com/artanddesign/j… Ping @SnarkyPlatypus
beatniksalad Banksy’s popular because he’s shit and people are idiots, says art critic theguardian.com/artanddesign/j…
Even a week later, I keep typing “heartbleet” instead of “heartbleed”. I suspect that says something about me.
New blog post: “Talking Heartbleed on ABC @774melbourne @720perth”, 7 mins audio from just now. stilgherrian.com/conversations/…
@Prue_Bentley @mongrel43 Yes, I did spot that in the film references and the chat about submarines.
@mongrel43 @Prue_Bentley Hah! Why thank you, though if that makes your life complete then… something something whatever.
And… the radio is done.
About to talk Heartbleed on @774melbourne, @720perth, and across Vic and WA. Listen in at abc.net.au/melbourne Stand by.
“Magical World Of Snails Captured In Macro Photography By Vyacheslav Mishchenko” demilked.com/macro-photogra… HT @natashamitchell
firstdogonmoon Help I’ve fallen and I won’t get up!
richardtuffin Helping Tony Abbott find his ladies.
Is there an App for that?
@servantofchaos I think it’ll be more of an explainer, but I’m listening to @Prue_Bentley now and I think it could go anywhere. #heartbleed
I’m talking Heartbleed on @774melbourne, across Vic and WA at around 2115 AEST (so in about an hour). Listen in at abc.net.au/melbourne
I made this graphic as well, incorporating improvements suggested by @jeamland. #the9pmedict pic.twitter.com/UAcqXy8uqw
RT @jeamland: @stilgherrian I won’t tell them you left the h out of your own name… [No, I won’t tell them either.]
@bernietb @chrisbrownie That could be a good idea.
So, I made this graphic. Shhh, don’t tell anyone OK? pic.twitter.com/EOhRs4iOJ5
Anyway, I’ll retweet that tweet with a slightly different image…
@chrisbrownie All will become clear in due course.
@chrisbrownie Typography is not a particularly important focus for a podcast. Anyway, it’s an adaptation of the original imagery.
@chrisbrownie This also guarantees you’ll score a mention in the first episode.
@chrisbrownie You’re hilarious. There’s no Arial of any weight involved. I will laugh at you now. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
jeamland @stilgherrian It’s ok. They’re patched. geektape.com/wp-content/upl… @CommBank
The A-G has just announced the appointment of Ms Jacqueline Sarah Gleeson SC as a Judge to the Federal Court of Australia.
RT @mpesce: Hey can we start #australiansforcoral in response to #australiansforcoal? [Also, #australiansforcrack.]
My UTS lecture on big data and privacy and journalism and targeted advertising and stuff is now online at stilgherrian.com/conversations/…
Yes, I’m talking Heartbleed with @Prue_Bentley on @774melbourne, across Vic and WA after 2100 AEST. Listen in at abc.net.au/melbourne
@Prue_Bentley @774melbourne Anyway, we’ll talk on the electric wireless later. #heartbleed
@Prue_Bentley @774melbourne Depends what you mean by “big”, infrastructure providers or consumer service providers. #heartbleed
@SnarkyPlatypus C’est parce que nous sommes des professionnels complète et totale à tout moment.
I should have said this more clearly before. @johnb78 says sensible things about this @CommBank Heartbleed kerfuffle. johnband.org/blog/2014/04/1…
@Prue_Bentley @774melbourne Actually, many people will only be starting to get noticed from their service providers today. #heartbleed
While @CommBank has added a Heartbleed clarification, they still talk about “patched”, which confuses, I think. commbank.com.au/blog/what-you-…
GordyPls IPSEC to Amazon VPC is a bit like “please configure your firewall identically to this locked box of electric smoke and scorpions.”
@Prue_Bentley @774melbourne Hah, you’re good, Prue, people still think it’s someone else’s problem. #heartbleed
@SnarkyPlatypus Ce n’est pas tous les jours qu’une télévision présentateur de nouvelles me dit ce que je peux faire avec mon poulet.
@matt_steadman Indeed. One excellent result of this will be more awareness of password managers. This pleases me.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. C’est un Miracle de Pâques! Il est un chapeau pour chaque trou du cul qu’il est! Et vous?
RT @drearyclocks: Bourbon and Cards Against Humanity. pic.twitter.com/AW6k2jQlCd [Looks like @dobes has the right attitude.]
“Tonight on ‘I’m an Instant Fucking Expert’, the architecture of enterprise banking systems explained with fuzzy felt! I’m Dwayne Arsehat.”
I see that people have turned the Dunning-Krugertron 3000 up to eleven this evening. Its powerful beams permeate everything. #heartbleed
The real question this evening is what @johnb78 has got against anchovy custard.
@GreenJ @RNDrive It’s the Easter Frog! The Easter Frog! Hoppity hoppity hoppity! It’s the Easter Frog!
@shoerust Oh I’ll pay that one.
Thank you, @michaelneale @cafedave @mattjpwns @elronxenu @rashasman. Dr Pavlov, meet your dogs.
michaelneale A photograph of the comments section of the CBA security announcement blog: f0.bcbits.com/img/a166398444…
What’s “Java”?
@drearyclocks But I’ve already copy’n’pasted it into my thing. Your Crayola cannot harm me.
@drearyclocks I am so stealing that.
Yes, @Anthony_Caruana, obviously there’s a special place reserved for @CommBank. The “headline”, I think it’s called.
NewtonMark So I guess @chriskkenny isn’t otherkin then.
5at5daily “5at5 number 34 | 14 April 2014”: UK from above, cocaine soda, Stephen Colbert feels, and lots of cybers. tinyletter.com/5at5/letters/5…
Had enough Heartbleed yet? Of course not! I’ll be on ABC @774melbourne at 2115 AEST, also Victoria and WA statewide.
Ta for Heartbleed stuff, @Taco_Lad @jeamland @dufussy @damncabbage @CaseyBriggs @Shaun_R @oliyoung. (Yes too early, @bastardsheep, but lol.)
“US rallied 120 nations in response to 2012 cyberattack on American banks”, reports @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Tomorrow I will be writing about responses to Heartbleed. Do tell me about any examples, both excellent and atrocious.
RT @glengyron During the industrial revolution they had Gin Carts. #AustraliansForCoal [First sensible thing anyone’s said on this hashtag.’
In which @CommBank’s comments moderator is replaced by a half-trained parrot of average intelligence. commbank.com.au/blog/what-you-… #heartbleed
Here’s the document: “A policy and program for invigorating science and technology for national security” dsto.defence.gov.au/attachments/Po… (PDF)
“Australia depending on vulnerable ‘cyber’ environment: DSTO”, reports @zdnetaustralia zdnet.com/australia-depe…
“Revealed: NBN Co scales back fibre rollout”, writes @joshgnosis zdnet.com/au/revealed-nb…
@natashamitchell All done.
BadJokeCat Without a doubt, my favourite Robin Williams movie is Mrs Fire.
I am sorry for pretty much everything.
@csoandy My pleasure. Akamai’s communication is some of the best I’ve seen, and I’ll probably say as much again tomorrow. Hang in there.
David Carr (@carr2n) on Yahoo!: “It has zero cachet and no discernible way forward.” Gulp. nytimes.com/2014/04/14/bus…
Ten points to Akamai and @csoandy for keeping people informed, even tho really bad things are happening. blogs.akamai.com/2014/04/heartb… #heartbleed
I believe, @leslienassar @RealNickHodge, that droning at you from my mountain lair is pretty much my entire media output.
ObservingSpace #Tardigrades survived 5 mass extinctions & thrive in places where very little else can survive. #cosmos #tardigrade pic.twitter.com/brtu7GEh3D
ObservingSpace #Tardigrades can go for decades without food/water, & survive temperatures near absolute zero. #cosmos #tardigrade pic.twitter.com/ekX6zfBBUX
@leslienassar Good.
@leslienassar You are an animal. A low-grade animal at that. I bet you actually slither. Do you slither, animal? DO YOU SLITHER?
@sophblack @StartupSmartnow Mind you, “gung-ho” is the perfect word to describe the start-uo scene, so as you were. ;)
@sophblack @StartupSmartnow “Gung-ho”? Really? It’s a negative thing. Macquarie: “intemperately and naively enthusiastic”.
@rycrozier That’s why I didn’t even bother looking. But hey, a great bit of magnet content for them to have put out there.
And… breakfast is served. pic.twitter.com/dstCHM1iaH
Final stages… pic.twitter.com/MNJHNiAd6D
Coming along nicely. pic.twitter.com/Nz8n7nz3qs
Let’s get this under way… pic.twitter.com/zjFjlcbOKj
In which the Coalition said on record there’d be no cuts to the ABC. openaustralia.org/debates/?id=20… openaustralia.org/senate/?id=201… HT @maxious
@maxious @MissBaileyWoof @henaredegan Thanks. I didn’t get around to that yesterday. Much appreciated.
RT @rycrozier: NBN Co’s $98bn liability to Telstra - the original story here: commsday.com/commsday-austr… [Yes, credit where it’s due. Lazy me.]
“NBN Co may have to pay Telstra $98b”, writes @Davidramli smh.com.au/business/the-e…
@infinite8horizo @jvanegue Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll be catching up on the latest Heartbleed stuff later today.
@jplonie How?
There’s links to all the other stuff I did, including a lot about Heartbleed, in my Weekly Wrap. stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/20…
My UTS guest lecture “Algorithms and the Filter Bubble, Take 3” from last Monday is now online. stilgherrian.com/conversations/…
Monday Breakfast is under construction. pic.twitter.com/s7dBI9LQnb
As promised to @LaTrioli, a photo of my breasts, or at least one of them. pic.twitter.com/n85QLlLssU
@juhasaarinen I do want to visit American Shooters again. Thinking of staying on in the US for a week or two after NetSuite’s SuiteWorld.
RT @LaTrioli: @stilgherrian Ah, blow it out your chicken. [This is probably the best tweet I’m going to get all week. I treasure it.]
@juhasaarinen We need to spend a week in Las Vegas then.
fjsteele My 7yo daughter captured the essence of programming after an hour with @hopscotch pic.twitter.com/693pMHmZFX
“Heartboned: Why Google needs to reclaim Android updates”, writes @dobes zdnet.com/heartboned-why… #heartbleed
NewtonMark “Fascinator.” RT @stilgherrian: RT @Zaphod_BBX: is there a collective noun for lady members? [“icing” or, more generally, a “decoration”.]
SwiftOnSecurity Due to unprecedented interest, I am announcing the founding of infosec consulting firm SwiftSec.
I will personally lead TaylorTeam6.
Chicken-whacking for everyone!
@LaTrioli Thanks. I’ll send you a photo of my chicken. But I only have the breasts, so the rest of this joke writes itself, and is wrong.
RT @mrgrumpystephen: @LaTrioli pretty sure @stilgherrian’s complaint could be narrowed down to “everything” [Yeah, pretty much.]
@LaTrioli May I draw your attention to this tweet. The linked-to story was wrong too, IIRC, but it’s OK now. twitter.com/BreakfastNews/…
RT @Zaphod_BBX: is there a collective noun for lady members? [Yes. It’s an “icing” or, more generally, a “decoration” of lady-members.]
OK, it’s chicken time. (But don’t tell @BreakfastNews, or they’ll tell you when it’s chicken time in half past Ukraine.)
@haruki_zaemon @elronxenu Yes, that is where this particular conversation started.
How MANY lady-members did Mr Rabbit have, @elronxenu? No, lady-members are uncountable, like sheep, or fish. He had “some” lady-members.
Ignore @BreakfastNews’s clock-up about tomorrow’s lunar eclipse. It’s in the EVENING Eastern Australian time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_201…
RT @Snailseyeview: The bush stone-curlew uprising is beginning. #WildOz pic.twitter.com/yb4K77SvRi [“The one in the middle? Watch him.”]
Mon plan, draft: Turn this shambles of emails, notes, ideas and minor hallucinations into a plan for the next month or so; eat chicken.
Are you singing the song yet? Don’t make me ask you all individually.
jbrodkin Prediction: the “passwords are obsolete” people will be just as successful as the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
RT @Beaker: I officially call it. Using the hashtag #HacKid before anyone else starts to ;) [He’s such a trend-setter, this guy here.]
“Just sorting out another @BreakfastNews clock-up…”
@BreakfastNews So a “blood moon rising”, sure, but the mid-eclipse point is at 0747 UTC. That’s 1747 AEST. Full Moon rises in the evening.
@BreakfastNews Erm, Tuesday evening Australian time, isn’t it? I don’t think you’ve converted UTC to AEST properly? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_201…
paulcoxon TL;DR Wikipedia is my new favourite thing tldrwikipedia.tumblr.com pic.twitter.com/7twKfz9smP
Today we are all lady-members, the forgotten ones, as besuited boofheads confuse a trade delegation with their private school rowing club.
RT @dfg77 he didn’t actually seem to have noticed they were absent until the photo call. [Were lady-members told? Or another after-thought?]
“Heartbleed redux: Private SSL keys, routers, clients exposed”, an update by @juhasaarinen itnews.com.au/News/382681,he…
It’s not like it’d be difficult for Mr Rabbit to learn and remember the lady-members’ names. There’s not that many of them.
As others have observed, he knows all the men by name, and calls them by pet versions of a given name. Then it’s nameless “lady-members”.
I am pleased that this video showing Mr Rabbit’s innate and inane sexism about his lady-members is being tweeted. youtu.be/w9tdoZJBuf4
Colvinius Proportion of expenditure on public broadcasting in a range of countries: pressprogress.ca/en/post/charti… pic.twitter.com/3hrOi7clKm via @johndory49
@cxi Sleep well, if you may.
@cxi And rightly so. :) I am merely curious about the real-world experiences out there, as opposed to the cartoon versions we normally see.
RT @marcuskelson: @stilgherrian
youtube.com/watch?v=7Ezy50… [Yeah look, you’re not helping, Marcus.]
@leslienassar [Smirks.] You’re right, that would have been gloriously SMEGalicious. Lickably so, in fact.
Me neighther. Sorry. RT @explanoit: I don’t know why I’m retweeting this.
RT “@dmuth: So do prudish ponies read 50 Shades of Neigh?”
@cxi True. I am, of course, an idiot. As you were, Sir.
He was figuring out how he might be able to spot keys, but then just started seeing “BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY” strings in his script output.
In which @jmgosney explains how he extracted private keys from the Cloudflare Heartbleed Challenge. gist.github.com/epixoip/105706…
Pandamoanimum My cat is out all hours, whines until I give her attention and food and then buggers off out again.
It’s like having another husband.
@cxi I gather you’re back in beautiful downtown Bagram? Was the attack different from usual? Or was that about your reactions?
THIS IS WHAT I AM LIKE WHEN I HAVE MORE THAN FIVE HOURS OF SLEEP IN ONE NIGHT SO JUST FUCKING WELL SING YOU STUPID STUPID PEOPLE.
ARE YOU SINGING ALONG WITH THE SONG, YOU DISRESPECTFUL BASTARDS? SING, FUCK YOU, SING! SING FOR GERRY! youtube.com/watch?v=zmVkn9…
@ssharwood I think that if I were with a neocon princess, I would build a lair for her, and we would live together beneath a volcano.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je pense que je connais la cause. C’était une expérience à la fois accidentelle et succès.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oui, je n’ai pas eu beaucoup de sommeil depuis des mois. Aussi, la semaine dernière a été la plus productive en mois.
@ssharwood I have no idea what this means, nor do I dare looking it up. I quite like the idea of it being an utter mystery.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis confus. Il me semble avoir dormi pendant cinq ou même six heures la nuit dernière. Très confus. Et vous?
manjusrii This is going to become a giant poster on living room wall pic.twitter.com/DeBvcNawUS
Obviously the SMEGtric I will not achieve today is speling proper good.
Next time people are doing one of those highly amusing* telephone jokes, here’s one with Gerry Anderson. pic.twitter.com/gtjtSPr9iM
I wonder what SMEGtrics I can achieve today, since I already with at “neocon sex kitten”.
nickpickles Bravo, Banksy, bravo. A new look for one Cheltenham phone box… #GCHQ pic.twitter.com/mor82fsRUV
Monday 14 April. Happy birthday Gerry Anderson, wherever in space you are. RIP. Here’s a song. youtube.com/watch?v=zmVkn9…