Tag Archives: security

Nokiana: the one about the CIA, Syria, and the N95

Matt Kane resurfaced on Bristol’s underscore mailing list  with this intriguing snippet, after some travels around the middle-east: ” … discovered N95s (not mine) cannot be taken into Syria”.
I asked for the backstory, which goes like this:
Quite a palaver. Got the train from Istanbul to Syria (amazing trip!). At the border they didn’t search [...]

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MySpace open data oopsie

Latest megasite privacy screwup, this time from MySpace who appear to have allowed users to consider photos “private” when associated with a private profile, while (as far as I can make out) have the URLs visible of guessable. Whoopsadaisy.  Predictably enough someone has crawled and shared many of the images. Wired reports that the site [...]

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