@OaaSvc @joshgnosis The methodology is all in the Akamai report. Grab it from their website. It’s an excellent read.
Ahmad_Fraz9 #Muslims are controlling the weather in Britain. In some places it’s Sunni, but mainly Shi’ite. #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/fXzpIPXofa
R_Chirgwin One thunderstorm, and the Telstra tech told me there were 600 line faults in the Blue Mountains.
@AbrasiveTeapot @SnarkyPlatypus (ACL replaced the Trade Practices Act some years back.)
@AbrasiveTeapot @SnarkyPlatypus Nation-wide Australian Consumer Law. Goods or services advertised at a certain price.
So British prime minister David Cameron is a fan of the back door. I see.
@ndrewreid Thank you. Your words are excessive, but a fresh one is being baked on Friday.
RT @RealNickHodge: I once lived a few blocks from @shiftkey in Adelaide [You had your chance, soldier, and you blew it.]
@_DaveKnowles They watch you. They are watching you now. I’ve seen the reports.
PTrumpton According to @Trumpton_NHA ‘Dr Mopp The Only Difference Between An Oral And A Rectal Thermometer Is The Taste
@jonoabroad How very 1970s.
Yeah, this interview with a cartoonist from a certain French magazine is a fuck-right-off to every other story. lesinrocks.com/2015/01/10/act…
sylmobile OH NO!!! ANYONE WITH AN EMAIL OR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT ON THE INTERNET COULD BE HACKED!!!
Oh FFS, my tweets from this morning are being retweeted by the tinfoilers.
Cameron/Clegg slashfic. Excellent. rhaegal.dreamwidth.org/23404.html HT @SnarkyPlatypus
@SnarkyPlatypus More the Cameron / Brandis stuff. I self-censored some tweets after that.
RT @duckbytheoboe: It seems a lot of tweeps have never heard of the Usenet *plonk*. #plonk [Well, we’re 1.5 decades into the 21st century.]
Apparently this morning I tweeted some rather complicated sexual fantasies which you should probably ignore.
SnarkyPlatypus Is Tim Wilson the most useless homosexual ever? All signs point to ‘yes’, despite some very tough competition (LOTS OF COMPETITION)
It’s a shame that @joshgnosis has presumably, like me, been banned from using the word “fibretards” in our writing.
RT @drearyclocks: “Hey sorry I had my phone stolen recently so I don’t know who this is.” #sext [Inbound or outbound? Also, got my number?]
MarkDiStef Let’s go through some old Hottest 100 number ones:
Dennis Leary - Asshole
Offspring - Pretty Fly For A White Guy
Alex Lloyd - Amazing
jonkudelka Some people have worked out things like quantum entanglement whilst everybody else has been arguing which cartoons it is ok to draw,
RT @joshgnosis: @stilgherrian mostly angry tweets from people who didn’t read the article. [So situation normal then.]
You should pay attention to @joshgnosis because he’s a proper journalist and is smart and wins awards and shit.
MT @R_Chirgwin: There’s currently 3 Telstra vans trying to locate cables to restore *one* copper service. [Workers, spooks, counterspooks.]
“Australia’s broadband ranking isn’t Turnbull’s fault”, writes @joshgnosis, who doubtless got hate mail. zdnet.com/article/austra…
ZenSaiyuki a message we can all take to heart pic.twitter.com/CcQx2fnWDw
Daddy issues.
@AshGhebranious Fuck, as they say, off.
mrkoot Lizard Squad has been pwned, and now the source code for their bots got leaked (Jan 12) seclists.org/fulldisclosure… Here: github.com/pop-pop-ret/li…
The internet will be bringing me food.
Hippopeteamus US cardinal blames radical feminists for pædophile priests. For connoisseurs of elegantly demented logic only. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
@bigbadave @R_Chirgwin And that’s just the first three items on a very long list.
@R_Chirgwin No, the correct phrase to use when talking about Freedom Boy is “useless cunt”.
@R_Chirgwin I continue to be happy that I’m IN a choose-your-own-adevnture game. One of Ian Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks.
@drearyclocks Look, can’t you just throw yourself into a canal instead?
I WANT TO LOOK GOOD UP TOP.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: @stilgherrian Are you at university again? [Um, I have a university staff number. Does that count?]
bennyfactor Step 1: wrap around head RT @indystar How a roll of tin foil could protect you from credit card fraud. indy.st/1DQHMDQ
Suddenly realising that when I went shopping this afternoon I didn’t buy any actual food. But I do have cider and wine.
OH, radio advert: “If you want to look good up top, don’t buy your bra from a regular shop.” [Makes note.]
“Suspected entertainment.” pic.twitter.com/ISFZbFICv8 HT @stuflu @timothy_mcd @Colvinius
One day @R_Chirgwin will use a picture-posting service that works properly in Twitter clients.
Yay, @R_Chirgwin, the Internet of Gravel!
RT @R_Chirgwin: And this, I kid you not, is the current Telstra fix: individual copper pairs dragged along the road. moby.to/wzpl3w
@dobes Motivational imagery is a help, yes.
@reubenacciano Yes.
jeamland @stilgherrian Hang on, you managed to find nuance in a Pickering piece? You’re either on drugs or… look I’ll just make an assumption here.
@havyatt Yeah I’ve heard Pickering on both @NewsTalk2UE and @3AW693 now. He’s… he’s a piece of work.
RT @GreenJ: What even is a pindick? [Well, a pin is not a large prick…]
Pollytics As if terrorists would take out Larry Pickering. The purpose of terrorism is to make a target society a worse place
I think Larry Pickering just said “What’s the difference between pedophilia and Islam?” So there’s your nuance.
@dobes I approve of your avatar.
Larry Pickering seems to be doing proof-of-life radio spots this afternoon.
@Spoonyman @NewsTalk2UE My pleasure. As I said before, it’s great that all this cyberstuff gets an airing on the mainstream media.
@Dean_Matthews @3AW693 Sure. Grab my phone number from my website and let’s sort the time.
And the @NewsTalk2UE spot is done. Audio to be posted later.
@damncabbage Yes, I understand. I have a strong stomach.
On hold with @NewsTalk2UE to explain why US @CENTCOM wasn’t “hacked by ISIS” thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/… Listenify at 2ue.com.au
I’d like to congratulate the Australian government for “reforming” the health system without all that wasteful “thinking” and “analysis”.
So the NSW Attorney-General just conflated the Paris massacre with the Martin Place siege. Zero stars for critical thinking.
“People… who think it’s acceptable to have a different view.”
“These people.”
@RealNickHodge @mpesce Not just racist, but also sexually perverted. There’s some sick, sick psychology at work here.
@dananimal Thanks. I’m pleased that @NewsTalk2UE talks about stories like this. The crossover of cyber into mainstream is happening.
RT @dannolan: we must all be destroyed pic.twitter.com/ZKaFSGvdon [I’m sure this is traditional Islamic dress for female warriors. So sure.]
@dananimal That’s not a defence, merely an explanation.
@dananimal Well they take this stuff at face value. And for so many do-everything journos, this is all the weird cyberworld.
@drearyclocks Seal hoopla sounds like a good game.
I’ll be talking about why US @CENTCOM wasn’t “hacked by ISIS” thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/… on @NewsTalk2UE at 1710 AEDT. 2ue.com.au
RT @semibogan: pic.twitter.com/EPzPDRaPvT [Well the man has a point.]
5at5daily 5at5 number 135: New York aerial photos, Japanese TV commercials, oil prices, the Silk Road trial, and the Cold War. tinyletter.com/5at5/letters/5…
I heard that Larry Pickering had been assassinated by jihadists, but sadly it turns out to have just been a potential threat.
DSMacLeod Billy Joel playing harmonica looks like dying Anakin Skywalker imgur.com/gallery/smS0mHq pic.twitter.com/GfBE21Pwcq
evanwilliamsss Sometimes God wonders whether humans even use their God-given gifts and then he sees a Chips On A Stick van and he’s like hell yeah they do
monsieurarion This. Is. Amazing. #taipei pic.twitter.com/UmNjvL25U5
I am having a cybercry right now, @dobes @mrgrumpystephen. I am awash in my own cybertears.
OH: “I don’t know if it’s a DSM condition so much as, you know, a hobby.”
I predict that 2015 will not only be Year of the Cyber, but also Year of the Utterly Inaccurate Cyberlanguage. We will all cry very much.
Kinda funny that US @CENTCOM talks about its “Twitter and YouTube sites”. centcom.mil/en/news/articl… Surely “accounts” were compromised.
emergency_capy other creatures play pranks on capybaras while they sleep. little do they know the capybara welcomes all creatures pic.twitter.com/DbjK86lGD9
dobes 🔥🔥🔥🔥 RT @jrhennessy: Never forget the greatest US Senator tweet of all time pic.twitter.com/lgylWAXvny
paulcarr So, Uber drinks are at Beer Hall at 1 Polk st? Free lifetime Pando membership to anyone who crashes and reports back who is there.
thegrugq Instead of banning crypto, they could just legally require that everyone is only allowed to use PGP. Effectively the same thing.
darrenpauli Here’s What Happens When You Install the Top 10 Download.com Apps (Ouch) howtogeek.com/198622/heres-w…
HuffPostUK #foxnewsfacts Fox News anchor suggests skin colour helps identify ‘typical bad guys’ huff.to/1xfv0Ji pic.twitter.com/M30qB98GKc
If @mpesce ever offers to take you on a yachting holiday, just… just don’t, OK?
@mumbrella So they’re looking for trainee journalists too?
I bet it’s just Christopher Pyne in a suit.
RT @joshgnosis: @stilgherrian Where’s the seal’s passport? [This is an important question, and should find out.]
Tony Abbott, who likes swimming, is on holidays. Sydney Harbour seal turns up again. Makes you think.
“America’s over-policing bombshell: How new data proves ‘stop & frisk’ critics were right all along” salon.com/2015/01/10/ame…
“George Brandis still struggling with metadata”, writes @jon_lawrence of @efa_oz smh.com.au/digital-life/c…
“‘ISIS’ Hackers [of CENTCOM] Love American Folk-Punk, Don’t Know the Name of Their Own Terror Group” thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/…
“Paris attackers: If there’s a difference between ISIS and al-Qaeda, it’s lost on self-styled jihadists” theatlantic.com/international/…
“Why ‘We must not allow terrorists safe space to communicate with each other’ is fear-mongering garbage” medium.com/@tommycollison…
It’s not a real seal, you know. I’ve seen that sort of thing in Thailand.
RT @dannolan: mongo [I think we’re meant to say “differently abled” now, or something.]
It’s only lunchtime and I’m already getting dangerously close to breaking out the David Cameron photos.
RT @BlogsofWar: Senators press Iraq prime minister to supply Kurds goo.gl/7EEOBh [How many Kurds do the Senators need? Can I bid?]
@nzherald In what sense it that a “selfie”?
“Japanese TV Commercials [ 2015 weeks 01 & 02 ]” youtube.com/watch?v=C_6CGa… HT @RealNickHodge
It’s tricky of Queensland to schedule a state election before anyone has sobered up after Christmas. Bloody tricky.
Gosh, what an inspiring slogan. “A Britain living within its means.” That’s the stuff of Empire right there, that is. pic.twitter.com/HS7NZVCtoC
@Drag0nista Wow. There’s a question. I guess it’s all about the long-term pay-off. And instant gratification, obviously. #conflicted
RT @bengrubb: This selfie stick madness must end [Why? What have you been doing with it? And did it hurt?]
Tue plan, draft: Sort out the mess on this table here; software installations; @5at5daily; evening TBA, but let it not hurt too much.
2015, the year that a hashtag changed the world forever.
@helveticade Member? Or employee?
It’s an easy gig that @timwilsoncomau’s got for $389k. Compare that with a policy wonk in an NGO who’d be luck to get a fifth of that.
Still, it fits the profile of @timwilsoncomau being happy to say any goddam thing to score a $389k salary for doing, essentially, fuck all.
And all of @timwilsoncomau’s perceived risks to “freedom” are risks to middle class white men and their business interests. What a yawn.
I seems like @timwilsoncomau has memorised a few scripted talking points that he can repeat on cue. But does he have any other party tricks?
What purpose does @timwilsoncomau even serve, apart from being Brandis’ sock puppet on convenient occasions?
swearyanthony Amazing how @timwilsoncomau is invisible when say, surveillance is being discussed. An opportunity to bemoan 18C? Whoosh, here he is.
1040 AEDT and I haven’t decided on my plan for the day. That’s telling.
normative Hey, you! Yes, the one sitting there quietly “thinking.” WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE?
normative Terrifying new “brain” technology allows verbal conversations to be stored in a format police can’t access… EVEN WITH A WARRANT.
Is Essex an actual place?
aptronym Did they run out of advice? Was their advice no good? Does noone need advice anymore? pic.twitter.com/Sz9MQ9gpkX
@0x1C Can’t you do both?
So now, @BBCNewsnight @CasparBowden, what does “tracked” mean? What is the spectrum of attention-paying activities? #newsnight
BBCNewsnight David Anderson, independent reviewer of terror laws: Numbers being tracked by security services are “in the low thousands” #newsnight
marshontap Wearable tech catching on. #IoT. “@evankirstel: “Man Caught Wearing 94 iPhones As Underwear wp.me/p2L7Ik-GLpf pic.twitter.com/lIye9snA1B”
@0x1C I see. And who are these people? WHAT IS THEIR AGENDA?
How do we know the cartoon is a depiction of Mohammed if we’ve never seem images of him?
When the spooks already have the legal power to walk through fucking walls, the Bad Thing happening probably isn’t down to lack of power.
So, “we need more powers” is just letting the spooks avoid having to think about whether they competently use the powers they already have.
KathViner In wake of Paris attacks UK spy agencies need more powers, says David Cameron gu.com/p/44nqx/stw
dobes Non jon, non RT @jonkudelka: not a lot of takers on the #jesuispickering hashtag at this juncture
I think it’s important that you all wildly speculate about “how it would work” when you have no facts or detail, just the PM’s brainfart.
@SOSpodcast @aral Well even if it were a real proposal, there’d doubtless be things like key escrow for banking etc. “Ban” is news-speak.
RealNickHodge Or a Telex from CIA Langley “@mollous: remember when we would change prime ministers with a quick 4:30pm caucus meeting”
@aqualung Yeah, there’s not really anywhere else to go after that.
RT @BrianHonan: Oh dear, so it begins. “UK’s Cameron won’t “allow” strong encryption of communications” gigaom.com/2015/01/12/uks… [#popcorn]
Right. That seems to have created a certain atmosphere for the morning. I might have breakfast and consider my plan for the day.
gsuberland A picture paints a thousand hypocrisies. pic.twitter.com/Md2Y2b5YpH
Oh this is good. So good. I have never felt this good before.
RT @wolfcat: @stilgherrian Looks like he is way ahead of you… pic.twitter.com/p0QSrdqoel [Oh no I’m there. I’m right there right now.]
Oh mind is taking me down this David Cameron / George Brandis rough, dirty sex visual imagery rabbit hole far faster than is advisable.
Imagining David Cameron and George Brandis having very special pillow talk about the evils of encryption and police brutality. #roughtrade
RT @theRealLaRocca: Those who are not compliant will be responsible for displaying their interior for government inspection and spanked.
RT @theRealLaRocca: Skin will be replaced by a TRANSPARENT epidermis. We’ll look like those Invisible Man and Woman toys from the 60s.
Well, that’s all pushed a few buttons. Keep up the good work, comrades. Get those slogans and cartoon-like political thoughts out there!
@NewtonMark I believe the correct term is “shaggin’ wagon”. Airbrushed surf-related artwork optional.
@NewtonMark You know too much. Get in the fucking van.
P0TUS BREAKING: Patriotic Americans being forced by Muslim jihadists to wear burqas and burn their crosses. #FoxNewsFacts pic.twitter.com/q8PIAeJLhG
RT @carolduncan: @wolfcat @stilgherrian I once had a chicken kebab that had terrorism in it. [Yeah I know that kebab place.]
Sigh. Some mornings you just KNOW that by the end of the day you’ll inevitably end up masturbating to photographs of David Cameron.
JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND BE AFRAID OF ALL THE THINGS.
Oh that’s right. It’s an election year in the UK. The whole fear / protector strong daddy / come to daddy process is being rolled out.
Shaking my head in a mixture of pity and wry laughter at the wisdom* of PM Cameron’s vision for the world.
Cameron straight up says that “the spooks can read it” is the key framing issue for structuring society. I don’t say “police state” often…
RT @latikambourke: PM Cameron wants to ban Snapchat and WhatsApp if spooks can’t read ‘em: latika.me/1KDmdLz [What a moron.]
FFS, you morons, instead of IT MIGHT HAVE TERRORISM IN IT, maybe remember that it is EXTREMELY UNLIKELY anything has terrorism in it.
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO HAVE A THING THAT MIGHT HAVE ANOTHER THING INSIDE IT BECAUSE TERRORISM.
WHENEVER THERE IS A THING THAT YOU CAN’T SEE INSIDE, IT MIGHT HAVE TERRORISM INSIDE IT. SO YOU MUST BAN IT.
In further news, UK government wants to ban cardboard boxes and hessian sacks because you can’t see what’s inside them.
Oh here we go. “UK government could ban encrypted communications with new surveillance powers” theverge.com/2015/1/12/7533…
@PaulbernalUK @MsLods Your blog post was brought to my attention at a fortuitous time, Sir.
Me at @zdnetaustralia Monday: “Brandis takes the data-retention debate beyond logic” zdnet.com/article/brandi…
@nyunggai @AltLJ @zdnetaustralia I think it’s all more subtle than a binary support / don’t support. Where’s the discussion of options?
Yes, @will_ock, “CSI: Cyber” will doubtless be excellent in all the ways that make excellence so good.
will_ock @stilgherrian A must watch for you! RT @jbrooks_: No doubt, this will be the best TV show of 2015: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI:_Cyber. “Cyber-Hacker”.
The curry was an inspired choice.
Tuesday. Every single decision leads to a mistake. With luck, none of them will kill you. Tuesday.