UK govt report on DRM

Surprisingly sane and balanced viewpoint...

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060605142442771

...now let's see if the advice gets followed.

BBC coverage of story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5041684.stm

ID cards

Couple of articles re: ID cards... one american and a few years old, one australian and recent, but both of interest to us here and now.

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0404.html#1
"everything I've learned about security over the last 20 years tells me that once it is put in place, a national ID card program will actually make us less secure."

http://techlovesart.blogspot.com/2006/05/last-card-youll-ever-need.html
"Take a look at how seriously we take security now [...] and say "that will never happen here" while keeping a straight face."

Practical experiments in theology

A man in Ukraine set out to prove that the Lord would protect him when he clambered into the lion enclosure at a Kiev zoo Sunday, The St Petersburg Times reports.

An official at the zoo said: "The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions."

The man got his answer when an affronted lioness grabbed him by the throat and killed him in front of horrified visitors.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/11/rzsl_week_4/
http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=17804