Interesting Links for 04-09-2014

[andrewducker]

• How the Celebrity Photo Theft was carried out
  (tags: photos nudity theft celebrity computers )
• The holdout who made a mall build around her.
  (tags: design shopping construction )
• Man arrested over Jim Murphy egg incident
  (tags: Scotland independence assault )
• Government bans all existing and future Academies and Free Schools from teaching

Comments

[bart_calendar]

So, if you are a celebrity when you sign up for an email address or cloud based storage lie about your date of birth is the takeaway I got from that security article.

[andrewducker]

Lie about _everything_ when using an online service, I'd say, Mr Calendar.

If that is your real name.

[drdoug]

:) Don't tell everyone, but I'm not the sort of doctor who makes you better, either.

More seriously, a lot of sites require you to give honest answers to personal identification questions as part of their T&Cs, so it's not The Right Answer to online security.

[andrewducker]

I am by no means convinced there _is_ a right answer.

Any properly secure system is too onerous for most people to put up with.

(I would like a nice federated key system to be used rather than passwords - which is why I'd hoped Persona would catch on.)

[andrewducker]

I wonder if this is a disease of large countries - that they don't feel they have to play well with others, and that all countries around them must fit in with their wishes, rather than all sides making compromises.

[amaebi]

Really tangential: back under Common Law, which all of the United States except Louisiana inherited from Great Britain and continues to hold where legislation has not superceded it, is a doctrine called Ancient Lights. The tall walls around Edith Macefield's house obviously cut off light from her house-- but then, Ancient Lights has been superceded pretty well everywhere, on grounds given by the Coase Theorem's conditions.

I need to know which of these things is more annoying

[andrewducker]

Still very-much applies in England/Wales. Not so much in Scotland.

[amaebi]

Interesting! It would certainly be an aid to preservation of village life. Is it cited directly?

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

But I was just reading about it on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_light

[apostle_of_eris]

“Why Nato-Russia relations soured before Ukraine”?
more like How America (aka "NATO") fucked relations with Russia.
Russia remembers Hitler's invasion. They remember Napolean's invasion, too. A substantial buffer is a completely reasonable cornerstone of national security. Recruiting former Warsaw Pact members into NATO, which was a defense against the Warsaw Pact, which is now totally history, was a really dick move.