Stuff! And Things!!

[denny]

Herding:

Pimms In The Park - this Saturday, 2pm-ish, Regents Park (this bit, roughly). Meeting at Sainsburys in Camden at 1pm to buy food/drink, then walking or catching the tube/bus up to the park from there. Feel free to phone me if you need help homing in on us, my number is 07815 150811. BRING PIMMS AND LEMONADE! (or don't, but we recommend it for the full Pimms In The Park experience)

My birthdays! - see previous post - fill in the polls, come out and play :)


Links:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/19/gatso_deaths_link/ - 'safety' cameras?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qa-dev/2006Jul/0011 - developer quits W3C rather articulately

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39279134,00.htm - 'ASBOs' for suspected hackers?

Comments

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but ASBOs aren't the result of criminal proceedings - in fact, they can be issued as punishment for things that aren't even illegal.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I think his point was the use of the phrase 'organised crime', although it took me a while to notice the discrepancy (if that's the word I want).

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

That's something else that has just jarred. I could be incredibly naive here, but aren't hackers some of the most disorganised people going? The idea of the Serious Organised Crime Act being targetted at a bunch of geeks is vaguely amusing...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

aren't hackers some of the most disorganised people going?

No. Not the ones they're talking about here. These people take over hundreds or thousands of 'drone' machines with trojans, then sell that network on as a spam-sending system, or a system which can be used to DDoS attack a competitor's website. It's big business these days, sadly, which is why the situation is deteriorating rapidly.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. *Moves thoughts into 21st Century*
That could explain the high cost of decent anti-attack software.