January 2012
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Among tech journalists, BlackBerry is considered to be “old-fashioned, lame,...
– Bill Wasik, Wired magazine, December 2011, #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You
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Unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are...
– Jack Straw in evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee, 2005-12-13.
(via The Guardian)
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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I live in Hollywood, and I can’t understand the idea of volunteering...
– Person of Interest creator Jonathan Nolan, io9 interview, 2011-10-05
Authorities believe the contacts were mainly between the U.K.-based suspect and...
– Glenn Greenwald (quoting Reuters), Execution by secret WH committee, Salon 2011-10-06
(part of me wonders which email header encodes that kind of information…)
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I have to say, it is genuinely unnerving to wake up in a Los Angeles hotel room...
– Marshall Sella, GQ magazine, October 2011
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Interestingly, there is one other theoretical option to ultimately get rid of...
– It’s 2011. We live in a world where armed drones can, apparently legally, bomb buildings - but sending a suicide command to a botnet is unthinkable.
September 2011
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The sisters sold their comparatively spacious two-bedroom house in Croydon to...
– ‘Shoebox homes’ become the UK norm, BBC News, 2011-09-14
The future is designing-out things, starting with your books.
[Peter David] Gibson, from Hartlepool, is banned from using the name...
– Anonymous and LulzSec case: four accused males appear in court, The Guardian, 2011-09-07
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August 2011
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Our spam filters use a few heuristics to determine what is spam and what is not...
– Don’t use the word Louboutin when commenting on the story about Christian Louboutin.
Another “please modify your behaviour for the benefit of the machines” moment.
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// NOW THIS LOOKS INTERESTING
// YOU BETTER BELIEVE WE CALLED release_inmate()...
– From the AntiSec release #ShootingSheriffsSaturday
July 2011
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Prince William and Prince Harry are now using more secure instant messages to...
– (Daily Mail)
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That was on Tuesday, September 11. It was the afternoon, less than three hours...
– Pottergate: we publish the secret tapes, Daily Telegraph, 2002-09-06