Month: August 2013
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One time pad + more news
One time pad technique In surveillance era, clever trick enhances secrecy of iPhone text messages | Ars Technica – kind of like the one time pad technique, but created on the fly. The one time pad (OTP) is an encryption technique that cannot be cracked, but requires the use of a single-use pre-shared key that…
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The Steve Ballmer Post
At the end of last week Steve Ballmer announced his imminent retirement and the formation of a committee to find his successor. The narratives that went out with the media painted a picture that was a decade or so of opportunities squandered. As with most narratives it hides a more complex truth that doesn’t neatly…
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Global Village TelePort modem
TelePort and PowerPort modems Back in the early through to late 1990s Apple computers weren’t as ubiquitous as they are now. If you had a Mac back then you were struggling to find compatible peripherals, you shopped at Mac specialists and often used specialist brand products. In the case of sending a fax, dialing into…
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NSA + more news
NSA China mulls probe into IBM, Oracle, EMC after NSA hack claims – report • The Register – they won’t be the only people looking carefully at US hardware and software after the NSA revelations Windows 8+TPM: Germany Warns of ‘Loss of Control’ – Open Enterprise – concerned about NSA back door People Are Changing…
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Slack + more news
Slack Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield’s new Slack signed up 8,000 companies in 24 hours | VentureBeat – psyched for Stewart Butterfield. met him once during a press junket to Sunnyvale and he was a gracious host for the media. Slack is a messaging client that allows groups, internal and external. It facilitates moving a lot…
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Chip market growth + more things
Chip Market Projected to Grow 7% | EE Times – chips in mobile phones and tablets will drive a significant portion of the growth in the semiconductor market this year. PC demand continues to wane, but strong memory growth and higher average selling prices (ASPs) in DRAM and NAND will boost the semiconductor market in 2013,…
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Jose Padilla + more stuff
This week mean’t late nights in the office to the sounds of Jose Padilla courtesy of the legends at Test Pressing. Jose Padilla is responsible for the Ibizan sound and its place in modern club culture Complex magazine have been delving into the story behind some of the great hip-hop records. I was switched on…