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Interesting
www.auroracoin.org The name of the creator is also a nice reference for those reading between the lines: Baldur Óðinsson.
Angry terrorists
… playing Angry Birds. Right, NSA? Yes, please keep up your show of “it’s about the evil terrorists”. It’s working. Really! Honestly! No, really! Work’s for me … 🙄 // Oliver
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So …
… when under constant surveillance , will we have to give a reference whenever we quote someone, NSA? Just curious. After all some politicians in Germany stumbled over the lack of references in their theses. Also, I am unsure about … Continue reading
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Five Eyes
The Five Eyes, aka UKUSA Agreement, begs one giant question. Given that this exclusive “club” stretches across Anglo-Saxon exclusively countries and given the light Ed Snowden’s leaks shed on the relationship between GHCQ and NSA, where one wonders who is … Continue reading
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Schneier briefed Congress
Bruce Schneier, a well-known cryptography expert and one of the few with access to the documents leaked by Snowden, briefed six Congress representatives on Thursday. Probably still a more honest speech than Obama’s. ON another note, here’s a fun quote … Continue reading
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Hach wie schön
Das Handy der Kanzlerin wird also nicht mehr abgehört – sagt Obama. Zurück zur Tagesordnung, denn jetzt wird ja nur noch der Rest der Deutschen … mithin der ganze restliche Plebs auf der Welt abgehört. Well done, Mr. President! Sie … Continue reading
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Will more nations shift right thanks to the NSA revelations?
Think about it. The logical thing to do is to go national and build up infrastructure (hardware and software) that is under full control of each respective national state. Having national routing was already raised as an idea. The logical … Continue reading
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A list of links
… in no particular order: nullifynsa.com and offnow.org thedaywefightback.org taskforce.is Hashtags: #NullifyNSA and #StopTheNSA // Oliver
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Impressions of a Sunday morning
So I woke up a few minutes to five and got up 5:04. I then drove my significant other to the airport at Keflavík and returned to the city. On my way back I was listening to some US radio … Continue reading
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What’s the hype about VS 2010 through 2013
Finally I’ve gotten around to work a bit more with those versions. They are nice with PTVS, but heck they’re unstable. I encounter frequent crashes and hangs with all of those versions as well as slowness compared to VS 2005 … Continue reading
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Refreshed the binaries for arrived, lsads and looklink, updates to looklink
You can download all of them on Bitbucket: arrived looklink lsads looklink now also understands “placeholder files” introduced with Windows 8.1 which are placeholders for files on a linked SkyDrive that are marked online-only. All executables are code-signed and a … Continue reading
Windows 8.1 continued pains …
So, in order to add some stuff specific to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 I end up working a bit on Windows 8.1 these days. Mind you, it’s only for testing and therefore by no means the full horror experience. … Continue reading
SlikSVN (Slik Subversion) is a bit painful to start with on Windows
It took me quite some time to find out why SlikSVN, one of the SVN clients recommended on the official project page, fails to establish the SSH tunnel when using Subversion over SSH. For some strange reason setting SVN_SSH to … Continue reading
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Nice idea
In the past when you created a new virtual machine in VMware, onto a virtual disk that would grow, that disk started out empty on the host file system. Now with VMware Workstation 10 ((although I cannot say whether this … Continue reading
ClassicShell rocks, but MS forbade them to use a start button that rocks as well …
How to replace the ClassicShell start button by the one from Windows 7. Continue reading
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“Why are you spying on Grandma?”
… just got to read these two gems earlier today: Former Top NSA Officials Insist Employees Are Leaving Because Obama Is Mean, Not Because They Object To NSA’s Current Activities NSA Sent Home Talking Points for Employees to Use in … Continue reading
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Uh oh …
George Clooney sent this video message to the Klichko/Klitschko brothers. A few tidbits: […] that true democracy cannot exist without a free and fair and honest election. Mr. Clooney, I hope you didn’t have the Florida supreme court decision from … Continue reading
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Bye bye MSN
I’ve been using MSN in parallel with some other protocols in Miranda IM and as MS had announced last year, they retired it in October this year. Well, bad luck. The old protocol was a defacto standard and open. The … Continue reading
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Let’s think about this …
… if the US is spying on an ally from their embassy in the respective host country, they are spying on and from US soil. Wouldn’t that affect how this should be looked at legally, if there is a need … Continue reading
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Fuck you very much, Peter King (R-NY)
The United States has done so much through the NSA to save lives in Germany. We have done much more for Germany through the NSA than the German army has done for itself since WWII said one Peter King, Republican … Continue reading
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