Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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November 13th, 2014

AND WHAT IF HE COMES BY MOTORCADE ONE WAY AND GOES BY BOAT THE OTHER WAY WOW A PRESIDENT THAT DOES TWO DIFFERENT THINGS HE IS LIKE A GOD.

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I WONDER WHAT COLOUR SOCKS PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL BE WEARING WILL IT BE THE SAME COLOUR SOCKS AS ME OMFG WHAT IF IT IS I’D TOTALLY FREAK OUT.

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“It has not been confirmed whether Mr Obama will arrive at the Uni of Queensland by helicopter, motorcade or by boat on the Brisbane River.”

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You fucking yokels.

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“Of all of the world leaders’ planes, these are absolutely the stars, they are state of the art … blinged out with really iconic livery.”

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Here’s one. “OMFG tilt-rotors blow dust everywhere that’s amazing we provincials haven’t see it before.” Oh grow up. http://t.co/syuRMqFCHX

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Oh and the G20 is tomorrow, right? Brace yourself for more slack-jawed wonderment as the media gasps at the powerful people.

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I am seriously getting over this screechy historically-ignorant panic-merchant bullshit that’s peddled as “news” these days.

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“Russian fleet”? Oh get a fucking grip, people. It’s barely a flotilla.

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Translated out of cyber-bullshit, “Nation tries to find out what questions it might be asked in international forum.” Not exactly weird.

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“We cannot tell you for reasons about not being able to tell you.”

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“Mr Alperovitch said he could not name the media organisations targeted because of confidentiality reasons,” which is a logical fallacy.

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“Chinese hackers ‘breach Australian media organisations’ ahead of G20”, reports @abcnews in a curiously timed report. http://t.co/DGxVsLbN9b

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@SnarkyPlatypus Yeah. I’d intended to catch the 2018 or 2118 back up the hill, but people. I blam@expectproblemsms, obviously.

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“@gcluley sings The AntiVirus Industry Song”, a video by @juhasaarinen et moi. https://t.co/DH4NTangzo

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@SnarkyPlatypus Yes. I arrive at Wentworth Falls at 0107, and must catch the 0706 back in the morning.

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@SnarkyPlatypus @expectproblems Until just a few minutes ago. Now I am preparing to catch the 2318 Lithgow service.

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No, this won’t end well.

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Shut up. I know what time it is. instagram.com/p/vVn-FGCFue/

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Wow, @MarkDiStef, that is the best headline I’ve seen all day. Bravo. http://t.co/zF7NKQvfib

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RT @BuzzFeedOz: We Talk To The Koala That’s Hugged Both Joe Hockey And Kim Kardashian http://t.co/sVpe9JsE7c via @MarkDiStef http://t.co/y1…

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@oberonsghost Excellent. It would seem that @expectproblems will be here too.

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@oberonsghost Well, I am the place with a corner for a couple hours, if that helps your helps.

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@expectproblems That’s a different verb. How does that relate to my verb?

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Apparently no-one wants a drink.

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joshgnosis Catch of the Day emailed asking if we do gift guides. I replied asking to explain why they waited 3 years to disclose a data breach. Silence

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It seems there’s still a few spots left at the iappANz Summit “Privacy@Play” in Sydney this coming Monday. http://t.co/zsMOgyzo0o

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At the place with the corner, but not in the corner.

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Departing the conference, because the attendees will be heading to their dinner soon. I must eat more quickly and then head up the hill.

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In response to a question, it’s not definitively Russia. Could be Ukraine, Could be someone trying for them as a coverar

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It’s pretty clear this was Russia. One target was a Turkish company that manages oil/gas pipes from Iran etcar

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Siedlarz : Dragonfly is currently dormant, no new email traffic. It was well resources, “likely to be state-sponsoredâavar

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My crypto knowledge is rather shoddy. That’s the one thing I keep learning at these eventsar

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Baltazar is now running through the hints they use to ease the brute-force decryption of the 3DES private key.

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I missed how that was then encrypted on the C&C server.

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Exfiltration then does XOR with key ‘1312312’ then BZip2 again. That file is then sent to the C&C server with a unique avar

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Data encrypted on target for exfiltration: Base64 > XML > BZip2 > 3DES with dynamically generated keys.

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I will not be so insane as to try to tweet an architectural description of the malware.

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Symantrec’s Jonell Baltazar takes over to discuss the Dragonfly malware internals. Lightsout / Backdoor.Oldrea / Trojan.Karagany!gen1ar

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Bad guys’ OPSEC failures allowed the researchers to get the stolen files and decrypt themar

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Some of the work was done on Saturdays. Note that Russian govt often works Tue-Sat, not Mon-Fri. [Curious coincidence.]

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Compilation timestamps fall into standard working day, suggests professional developers. Timezone UTC+4 matches Moscow and Seychelles.

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Symantec got access to the C&C server through a request to the hosting provider.

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Command and control servers were placed on compromised WordPress and Joomla sites, majority hosted in US, then Germany, then others.

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The trojanised versions of software updates were being served out one time for six weeks, another for 10 days.

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Most sophisticated was compromising the supply chain for ICS control software, so engineers ended up with trojanised versions.

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May 2013 to Apr 2014 that switched to compromised legit sites hosting Lightsout exploit kit.

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Spearphishing to senior employees / engineers. Subject “The account” / “Settlement of delivery problem”. All from one Gmail at. #avar

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Three attack vectors: Spearphishing, watering hole attacks, compromise 3rd-party software, with increasing sophistication.

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Defence and aviation targets were mainly US and Canada. Focus shift in 2013 to US and European energy targets.

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Dragonfly was a cyberespionage campaign targeting defence from 2011 and then later energy sector, stealing info, capable of sabotage.

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Next up is Marcin Siedlarz from Symantec on the Dragonfly threat actor.

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I’m returning to tweet from the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) conference. https://t.co/Y4AB90vBRP Mute #avar to avoid.

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I gather that the theme of G20 is now “The World Explains Things to Australia”. Crusader Rabbit will lap that up, I reckon. He’ll love it.

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@JonDeeOz I’ve done two nights of that, and a third coming tonight. Obviously I am extremely happy* with the situation.

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Exploring the Sheraton’s idea of what constitutes “Thai green curry chicken”. While editing a video.

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@gcluley I am still sulking in the foyer and getting my brain working. I have no idea where @juhasaarinen. He’s escaped.

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RT @juhasaarinen: I could put on this enormous onesie hakkerihuppari and do an impromptu dance routine on stage. The AFP will be ready. [!]

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RT @gcluley: @juhasaarinen @stilgherrian Only banned from one session? you aren’t trying hard enough [What Mr Cluley says is true, folks.]

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@juhasaarinen WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUTUBE WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM.

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Palmer-Lambie Wars 1: The Press Releases.

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@juhasaarinen Wait. I’ll just download it from YouTube. Using an innertube.

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@juhasaarinen We shall figure that out at lunchtime. I have a USB stick or Bluetooth or something.

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@dilettantiquity It’s all a bit silly, given it’s not a classified meeting, and anyone can post anything they like about anything.

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@juhasaarinen I have the audio, so I can re-mix that with a static frame at the start for the full thing.

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Ah! @juhasaarinen filmed most of the Anti-Virus Industry Song. https://t.co/zTFMeUPPJn #avar

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@SnarkyPlatypus @oberonsghost Well @juhasaarinen are rarely in the same place, so something is something something thing.

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@JackGJessen Well, that was more a set-up for the next joke.

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@nphair @jon_lawrence Can you imagine telling your 2003 selves that Baidu would be part of it? Or were they already up by then?

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@mark_lawler @gcluley Hah! There were certainly a lot of “It’ll never happen” feelpinions back then.

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@nphair @jon_lawrence Hah! There’s some “usual suspects” names on that list. But yes, a very different indu #avar

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@dilettantiquity It’s “Chatham House Rule”, singular, but that’s not much help when there’s only one person speaking.

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@rycrozier Yeah I think they’ve got it all thought through.

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In other disturbing news, @juhasaarinen is also in Sydney.

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I’m running an errand and sulking, because there are too many people in the room who work for the government and know my face.

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The next presentation is by the Australian Federal Police, but the media has been banned.

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And @gcluley has ended on that happy note.

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Lesson 7: We don’t know how lucky we are in the IT security industry. We get together and share informationar

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“You certainly can’t trust NSA or GCHQ to produce decent PowerPoint presentation@gcluleyc #avar

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Cluley: Snowden revelations have taught us that you can’t really trust anyone but yourselfar

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Lesson 6: It’s getting more serious. (The kids are now just doing DDoS and defacements.ar

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The real message from @gcluley is that the hype and media-friendly names help the industry get the message to users who don’t carear

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A plea from @gcluley: “Can you just call a virus ‘Lumpytrousers€ #avar

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Internet chaos meltdown time bomb!

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Lesson 5: Hype and hysteria can sometimes be a good thing.

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Malware authors don’t NEED to be geniuses, because users keep making the same mistakesar

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LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs

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Lesson 4: Malware authors are not geniuses.

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He’s still sulkingar

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Lesson 3: Anti-virus is (still) not dead.

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Lesson 2: Where there’s money, there’s malware (and where there’s malware there’s money). [Money for the AV industry, he .] #avar

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I think this is just @gcluley’s long nostalgia-sulk that malware isn’t fun any moavar

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Now we’re seeing a whole series of malware-as-art images, whic@gcluleyey compares with Banksy’s aavar

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No, @gcluley, this next virus is from Independence Day.

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Who remembers the Cascade virus?

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So @gcluley’s favourite virus is the Casino Virus, “Disk Destroyer, a Souvenir of Malt #avar

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It appears that @gcluley is about to claim there IS such a thing as a good virus.

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Things I was told: “There’s no such thing as a good viru #avar

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Things I was told: “All viruses are written in Bulgaria.” [Remember the Dark Avengeavar

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Things I was told: “Boot from a clean floppy disc.â€ar

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“AV industry should thank Bill Gates for the sterling work Microsoft did before the Trustworth Computing initiative,” s@gcluleyuavar

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Remember the myth? You only have to worry about floppy discs, EXE and COM files.â€ar

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Well that was terrible. I have a recordng.

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We have to sing a song now. We have to stand up.

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Dr Solomon’s issued a commemorative clock on 1 October 1996 to having now tracked 10,000 virusesar

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The early anti-virus industry was doomed, @gcluley was told, because eventually all the definitions wouldn’t fit on the 356kB floppyar

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We are being reminded of boot-sector viruses that were spread by floppy drive and sneaker net. The old people are looking pained.

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So @gcluley’s first programming job was writing the Windows version of Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit. Solomon wrote OS/2 versiavar

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[Amusing and meandering story about Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit and a packet of cheesey biscuits.ar

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And now @gcluley is getting disapproving headshakes from the audience for having programmed in Pascal on his Amstrad.

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And now @gcluley is demoing the game 3D Monster Maze that he played on said machine. It had 3D* graphics*.

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He got a Sinclair ZX81, sold as being “powerful enough to run a nuclear power plant!” It has 1kB of memoavar

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In the summer of 1981, @gcluley really really wanted to be The Doctor. [He said he wants “to be Doctor Who”, but I will correct hiavar

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Lesson 1: Predicting the future is easy. Ensuring the predictions are correct is hard.

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Next up, @gcluley’s keynote, “What 20 years working in the Anti-Virus industry taught meavar

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STIX files (an XML format) are currently being posted manually. Once XML is agrees upon, automation will follow. .

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CERT AU now distributing Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) files to speed ingest of threat info. stix.mitre.org

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[I wont bother tweeting the rest of this organisational information ’cos it’s all readily available on an innertubavar

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CERT AU and Asia Pacific CERT is encouraging countries that don’t have CERTs to set them upar

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CERT AU has been working closely with QLD authorities to prevent disruption and embarrassment during the G20.

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ACSC is coordinating CERT AU, ACC, AFP, ASD and ASIO. [Not news, of course, just tweeting the background.]

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Clark runs through CERT AU’s role, says they’re “currently transitioning” to the Aust Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), replacinC. #avar

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@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je profite de l’entreprise des virus-pompiers. Et vous?

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First up will be Dr Andrew Clark from CERT Australia on Regional Cyber Security Collaboration.

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I am now tweeting from the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) conference, day 1. https://t.co/Y4AB90vBRP Mute #avar to avoid.

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RT @newscomauHQ Russian warships unlikey a response to PM Tony Abbott bit.ly/1zNnI5U pic.twitter.com/Ailrpw2Qxk [Gosh, you don’t say.]

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franksting Russia signs Nuclear energy deal with Iran. Half a column on page 16. Yep the Aussie media has its eye on the ball

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KotakuAU Cops Raided Game Studio Because They Thought It Was A Gambling Den - tinyurl.com/mv6vcrp

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And there are so, so many ordinary people.

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Arriving at Sydney Central like an ordinary person.

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MS14-066, eh? Well this is all a bit of a hoot.

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Has anyone suggested the band name “Clive and the PUPettes” yet?

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@leslienassar Is that a threat? It sounds like a threat.

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@LeftyMatt Ah, and this Saturday. First I’d heard of it.

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I’ve just discovered that there’s a by-election in the Blue Mountains City Council, ‘cos the Labor candidate is working the railway station.

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Thu plan: 0706 train to Sydney; 0930 AVAR conf day 1 https://t.co/Y4AB90vBRP; write for @zdnetaustralia, maybe; @5at5daily; return train.

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@juhasaarinen It’s more of a cyberhood these days, obviously.

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@juhasaarinen This describes most of the internet though. As long as it looks pretty on the surface, who cares what’s under the hood?

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@juhasaarinen So let me get this shocking news straight in my head. Alpha code is not suitable for production. MY GOD THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.

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RT @gregneuf: Blind leading the blind “@hyounpark: IBM is training 10,000 consultants on the anatomy of a tweet. #SWGAI http://t.co/OlIDed…

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fanfiction_txt “I didn’t know it was a contest of Sex with yor pokemon?” Ash asked her,

rubbing his hair, which was full of goo.

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@michaelneale Well he can’t see that on the phone.

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Oh great, now the taxi booker is judging my lifestyle. “6.45 this morning? Tsk tsk.”

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The latest AV-Comparatives test results are out. That should feed some conversation today. http://t.co/7dkb3C1qfF http://t.co/wpqQaNqD4W

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Thu plan, draft: 0706 train to Sydney; AVAR conf day 1 https://t.co/Y4AB90vBRP; write for @zdnetaustralia, maybe; @5at5daily; return train.

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Thursday. If yesterday was the pre-wash, then today is the spin cycle. That’s right, the wash itself failed. Everything is filth. Thursday.

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Having set the alarm for 0500, just over four hours away, I shall now attempt slumber. I have departed.

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@SnarkyPlatypus The Good Lord invented razor wire for a reason.

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@semibogan You made your choice with eyes open, did you not?

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I am told that the World Parks Congress worldparkscongress.org and G20 refugees are the cause. Even the Mountains are booked out.

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Tomorrow morning I shall be catching the 0706 train back to Sydney. The city’s accommodation shortage is an embarrassment.

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It is after midnight again. But I will be arriving at Wentworth Falls in five minutes, and a taxi will be waiting for me.

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