Oh. PS, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner isn’t a bad bit of kit. Bye!
I can cope with this. Transmitters off. See you in Sydney. pic.twitter.com/ArbIeIl0AK
The view from 27L. Exit row, no idea where my baggage is. Whatever. See you in Sydney, kids. instagram.com/p/BQuRzzfg_mq/
No wi-fi in this part of the airport. But I have an exit row and no clean underwear. SO MUCH WIN.
So, a status report: Aircraft: OK. Card: Cancelled, new one Wed (express). Baggage: Completely unknown. Usual bar: Closed for renovation.
Dammit I’ve just jinxed it, haven’t I.
The only thing that seems to be working is that we have an aircraft. pic.twitter.com/JoNXs9LXuE
@ummjackson Hah! I’ll let you know where I am once I’m off the phone with the bank.
Even more betteror, my credit card has been lifted. I LOVE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL.
Hang on. UA863 SFO-SYD from gate 100. This is the flight I usually catch.
That said, I’m airside and have a valid boarding pass to SYD, so I really don’t care.
HAHAHAHAHA This is going to be so excellent.
Bad news: UA222 is delayed. Good news: I’ve been rebooked SFO-SYD direct. Bad news: We’ve lost my checked bag.
Of course if you know Star Trek original series, a BART train is just an extended version of the Enterprise’s shuttle craft.
One of the things I truly love about BART is that the on-train announcements are utterly incomprehensible.
OH, at Powell BART station:
“So, Catherine the Great ha…”
“Horses.”
“Horses!”
I love BART. It’s like the 1970s never ended.
Gin: Finished. Bar tab: Closed. Jacket: On. BART ticket: Found. THE ADVENTURE BEGINS.
@ErrataRob @gattaca Now look, Rob, I was in your presentation on Mirai and I don’t think you’re in any position to judge.
Wow, @Cyber_Roo, this is… I can’t even begin to think of the implicationstwitter.com/wommibat/statu…zp
Email just received: “ALL HAIL @Cyber_Roo!” I work with idiots.
@gattaca Apology accepted.
Shit. I need to finish this gin and BART to SFO and get some work done, or I am so going to annoy the people with purchasing authority.
@gattaca That’s OK then.
riskybusiness @thegrugq @davedittrich @scanlime I kinda miss the fan art tho. pic.twitter.com/efjt5NXDKp
amyquispe startups while this uber story is blowing up pic.twitter.com/wGU2gvRpG6
@gattaca Wait. You were still in SFO? Goddam we went all Nike-Hercules yesterday! twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@kofeyh You are a problem child.
A young Hispanic woman at the next table in San Francisco is studying for the police acceptance exam. I’ve wished her, and America, luck.
Mind. Blown. twitter.com/jeamland/statu…
Yeah so while I should really be in Monday-working-hard mode, I’m in a Sunday-arvo-drinking-gin reality. In America. You need gin here now.
WORD PUZZLE: Changing one letter at a time, turn KALANICK into CUNT. #trickquestion
sham_jaff In solidarity with #lastnightinsweden pic.twitter.com/b6sOvWYvun
@jdub Clearly there is no God.
This is true. New Zealanders only have eight fingers each. twitter.com/juhasaarinen/s…
Well, OK, I wasn’t. But I was kinda hoping.
Seriously. “OMFG OUR OVERPAID ‘STAR’ IS PUTTING HIS LIFE AT RISK.” Yeah well I never saw reports of his death. And I was looking out.
Sadly it’s just a metaphor. I should call some people… twitter.com/SteveMolk/stat…
@drzax OK, so you’re playing a straight bat on this one? I can deal with that.
@gattaca I’m gonna give you 47 bonus points for the choice of GIF there.
gattaca It’s amusing watching people screaming on twitter that an account, clearly labelled “parody”, is fake. pic.twitter.com/6w83NdDWQg
Man, that’s a shitload of annoying Twitter bots. twitter.com/PDChina/status…
ParkerMolloy You know, I’m starting to think Trump wasn’t being totally honest with us when he said he didn’t know about this…twitter.com/i/web/status/8…ZG
Yes of course I’m sure they’ll let me back into Australia. Why do you ask?
This is assuming that a meeting with PM Turnbull is still of any value. #justsayin twitter.com/drzax/status/8…
StephensWSJ The New Yorker cartoon for our age. Just change the number of the week. pic.twitter.com/l3YFWo4N6t
coreyspowell 93 years ago #today, Hubble revealed proof that our galaxy is just one of a vast multitude. bit.ly/2kM3vIH pic.twitter.com/pscwFspS5f
@mtc01 @TraceySpicer [Shakes head] There’s some high-grade arsehattery happening all round there. Sigh.
Also, @mtc01 @TraceySpicer, illustrating a story about female media presenters with a picture of a bloke? Well, of..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…0O
CombatCavScout Repeated, forceful hammer blows.
Next question. twitter.com/TaskandPurpose…
@techoglot Not me. But for a price I can tell you who it was. Or, also for a price, @crdavies can ensure I don’t tell you who it was.
What sort of idiot answers a phone in an elevator and then, between bursts of static, shouts “I’m in an elevator! I’m in an elevator!”?
@dobes I’m trying not to think about that. I have to hit my cyber count in today’s stories. Fortunately, @RepMcCaul is on my side.
No, I have an app for that. twitter.com/dobes/status/8…
Now this — THIS! — is one of the most important email security classification tags of all timetwitter.com/dev_dsp/status…Ve
keith_ng mind blown twitter.com/felixsalmon/st…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. twitter.com/oberonsghost/s…
@voltagex Now you’re talking. Maybe we need a whole new system for classifying our comms. [SEC=IRRESPONSIBLE]
@voltagex Nothing in that tweet surprises me. And no I’m OK. I have enough government email for one day (except for the data I’m expecting).
It’s one of those days when nearly every email reply I get has an addition to the subject line: [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
OK, I have to do some writing now.
@ResignInShame Not the flight itself, obviously, but I really like this town. What’s happening over the other side, not so much.
There is nothing “sort of” about this whatsoever. twitter.com/RageCook/statu…
@nonya_bidniss Sadly, it’s starting to look like your skills may be needed again.
Excellent. The US Defense Secretary knows who he enemy is. #offtoagoodstart #butitisonlysundayhere..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Ur
@alexkidman @crdavies @benkepes @Mich11775 @Cyber_Roo Indeed.
@Bobosphere Apropos of generally, keep fighting the good fight, Bob.
@stewak2 @NuclearAnthro @daviottenheimer That’s the one. Site SF-88L. Brilliant tour led by Nike veterans.
@nonya_bidniss That must’ve been a time of mixed emotions.
@crdavies @benkepes @Mich11775 @alexkidman “I love you, @Cyber_Roo!” #notexactlypikachu
@Luiz0x29A @NuclearAnthro @daviottenheimer Beautiful stuff, isn’t it. I hope you scrolled back for the electro-mechanical computer too.
@nonya_bidniss I seriously hope you’re not saying we have live nukes here? Actually, I do hope that. ;)
[Also, I know the real answer.]
@NuclearAnthro Oh man! A Nike-Hercules loaded onto the elevator, sent “upstairs” as they put it, and raising it to firing position! #nukejoy
@NuclearAnthro @daviottenheimer Yep, site SF-88L. A solid 2-hpur tour led by Nike veterans.
“Cyber who? Cyber Roo!” twitter.com/terencehuynh/s…
@brisvegas1 @joshgnosis @FakeDanTosello Indeed.
Hey @NuclearAnthro, did you see this thread? #mygoditsfullofnukes twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@riskybusiness @joshgnosis Belay that. I misunderstood for a moment.
@riskybusiness @joshgnosis Orly? FFS.
@joshgnosis @FakeDanTosello Which is, of course, a conflict of interest. Sigh.
@FakeDanTosello @joshgnosis Well it’s standard for email. ;)
@FakeDanTosello @joshgnosis Of course the way around that is to have FOI-able data archived off the device daily or whatever.
@FakeDanTosello @joshgnosis Sorry, yes, I was miles away. And yeah, that’s a valid point, if FOI processors are to limit their viewing.
@FakeDanTosello @joshgnosis Well the tools I’d seen were from Virginia or Maryland or somesuch place. Wisconsin maybe. Penrith. I dunno.
@riskybusiness @joshgnosis Oh. Yeah. I was assuming the phone backups were encrypted. As you were.
@joshgnosis Yeah I know, I’ve been following your saga. Their argument seems to be there’s no faster way that the way they know.
@joshgnosis The forensic tools I’ve seen demonstrated then give you a browser to view and search the data.
@joshgnosis Well it shouldn’t be. Unlock, attach standard forensic tool to data port, wait as long as a backup takes.
@joshgnosis Interesting. Unlocking the phone is in theory the only way, though my understanding is that Certain People have their ways.
@joshgnosis I’ll also admit I spend more time looking thru the natsec lens than the anti-corruption and transparency lenses.
@joshgnosis I was thinking it must look bad thru your lens. Dunno that WhatsApp changes that, tho ASD and Archives have diff viewpoints.
@joshgnosis True. I reckon it comes down to what is/isn’t “ministerial comms”. We still have to trust humans to keep them separate.
@alexkidman We need to run this question past @Mich11775, I think.
Sun plan, draft 3: Write for @zdnetaustralia x 2; 1930 PT UA222 SFO-LAX; 2245 UA839 LAX-SYD, arriving 0845 AEDT Tue; blog en route.
I’m pretty sure this is why we can’t have nice things. twitter.com/Cyber_Roo/stat…
Hey Australia, be proud! The @Cyber_Roo is officially a thing! #ozcyber #cybercyber #verycyber pic.twitter.com/ZnsL79wUEm
@KiwiLandingPad @benkepes Deal! And now to help make @zdnetaustralia’s Monday happy.
@KiwiLandingPad @benkepes Definitely. My brief with @zdnetaustralia can cover NZ and the rest of APAC should I choose. ;)
@munin @RachaelHasIdeas Yep, it’s an old trick. It just came up ‘cos we noticed that SFO’s problem is the worst we’ve ever seen it.
A thing I learned in San Francisco yesterday: Nevada just dumped its mental patients here with one-way bus tickets. sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400…
NewtonMark What is the actual difference between this time and the time he was PM and could actually do it? twitter.com/adamgartrell/s…
CharlesFinch If it can happen in Sweden, it can happen in Narnia. Sobering thought.
@KiwiLandingPad @benkepes I’ll definitely do so next time in town, but I fly out this evening. And of course it’s Monday in Au/NZ now. :)
@KiwiLandingPad @benkepes Thanks, Sian, but I’m good. I’ve settled into a Starbucks for now, and will shortly move to a hotel foyer.
@benkepes @KiwiLandingPad Hah! Well the @AusUnlimited landing pad has a “Locations” page with no addresses. Sigh. kiwilandingpad.com
@benkepes Indeed. But does @KiwiLandingPad admit random and slightly damp Australian journalists on rainy Sunday afternoons?
@benkepes Oh hang on, the Google confused me. It’s (down the bottom) at 981 Mission. kiwilandingpad.com
@benkepes Except yours is over in Santa Clara, it seems. I’ll have to count that one out for this visit.
@benkepes Well that’s a thought, and there’s also an AU Landing Pad here. Though I suspect @crdavies has eated it.
I suspect I may, but it’s still pretty fucked up. twitter.com/jeamland/statu…
@united They’ll survive, NJ. Maybe. Anyway, that’s not your problem. Thanks for your help. Have a good one.
@garystark @irelandsusie Yeah OK, but let’s be clear, tho. @united will be just fine for their part. They can’t control time and space. Yet.
Sun plan, redraft: Write various things, somewhere in SFO (suggest!); 1930 PT UA222 SFO-LAX; 2245 UA839 LAX-SYD, arriving 0845 AEDT Tue.
@united Thanks for that, NJ. I figured that’d be the case. All good. I’ll just strangle my colleague who routed me through LAX today. ;)
@irelandsusie Yep. Got that. I’m pretty sure I’ll have to re-check at LAX because reasons.
@garystark @irelandsusie @united Hmmm. I need to confirm that before BARTing my way there, otherwise I’ll have a miserable afternoon.
@irelandsusie @united This is all good info, thanks, but timing means I need to work in SFO first. No matter, I’ll find a spot.
It’s OK, @united, I have used the internet, and the answer is “No”. :) united.com/web/en-US/cont…
@marcuskelson It is, actually, and I think there’s some hotels nearby that I’ve a loyalty card for.
Is the @united lounge at SFO accessible from domestic departures? I’m going through LAX before transferring to the SYD flight.
It’s just like being back in Australia.
Trying to use a shopping centre wi-fi network. It’s shit. Why? I see the guy at the next table talking to his girlfriend on Facetime.
And yet Karaganov says he’s more optimistic about the world order than only a few years ago. Make of that what you will.
Karaganov says the post-WWII “US-led world order” (presenter’s words) has become the world disorder.
Karaganov: “Trump is unpredictable but at least he offers the possibility of some fresh air.”
Karaganov: “I hope Russia is [very?] good at cyberwarfare.” (I didn’t quite catch the quote.) I see.
Current @CNN strap: “FLYNN FLAMEOUT: THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW”, and they’re interviewing Sergey Karaganov, former Putin foreign policy advisor.
@marcuskelson And by contrast, on Saturday I’m heading to Ho Chi Minh City for a week.
@marcuskelson Indeed. I’m writing a brief thing today. I’ll send you a link.
Kosmogrrrl Increasingly impressed with anyone who manages to write near-future SF under these conditions pic.twitter.com/pGWT69EeZB
@marcuskelson Right now it’s San Francisco, as… yeah, I’ll say it… as it says in my profile. But not for long.
@AlecMuffett @mjos_crypto That’s possible, I guess. That said, I’m happy to do it from the command line. [Shrug]
questingvole Jeepers. Mailonline contains, I discover because research and stuff, has 1,772 instances of the phrase “pert posterior”.
WernerTwertzog The iPhone 9 will be charged wirelessly by the level of global income inequality.
@mjos_crypto @AlecMuffett Thank you, though that still only gets me to viewing the certificate, no? Not exporting / copying it?
@marcuskelson Not here, alas.
It now seems to be slightly later than I’d planned, but I think I can get away with it.
Sun plan, supplemental: You don’t have a copy of the list, but I do.
Sun plan, draft: File wrangling; write various things (see list); 1930 PT UA222 SFO-LAX; 2245 UA839 LAX-SYD, arriving 0845 AEDT Tue.
Sunday. Before there are 40 days, there are 39, and you know what that means. Sunday.