It does indeed, but it seems I can no longer read the code.
Perhaps something like +FU2, +FU2 ... ?

A dog-shaped robot? Loyal to which master?

[Having a little first-hand experience, I inferred the architecture under the cosmetic changes to be a work of late 1970s brutalism from the Ministry of Works…

Ah, NZ Police comms, all is clear. The…

Prominent on entering the town via the Napier Road = Main…

The NSA does. In Utah.

[[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/14/nsa-utah-data-facility|Welcome to the Utah Data Center, a new home for the NSA's exponentially expanding information trove. The $1.7bn facility, two years in the making, will soon host supercomputers to store gargantuan quantities of data from emails, phone calls, Google…

Another one for fans of 1970's schlocky dystopian future type stuff:

Colossus: The Forbin Project

First ten minutes here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjebwUrhvc

The press conference from 6.20 onwards makes very interesting watching, given current events. I also remember watching this as a pre-teen, and being…

You can't control hardware if it isn't even there. There is no onus on any manufacturer of Android phones to put this IR thing into the camera, or any other feature for that matter. They…

The software does. These things are never implemented in ASIC, they're always done in software.

As for corporates outnumbering individuals, that's not necessary. Apple has a focus on gaining market share in business, which is why they provide superb "fleet" management…

Yes, and also they don't…

That is rather predicated around…

Why so disbelieving? In 2009 Apple patented a way to block photos being taken through the use of an infra-red signal being transmitted to their phones. They’re definitely interested in finding out ways to disable their…

They mentioned that they do this about 100 times a week. And that 99 of those visits turn out to be nothing.

I don't know which is more troubling; armed US agents visiting 5000 household annually or 50 searches per year turning up 'something'.

Rich's comment aside, perfect randomness is not required. Random enough adds enough complexity to make it secure.

And yes, the entropy key will make pwgen more random, on a suitable system.

Oh, you mean Spy Valley...?

Now, there's a thing. Random is statistically impossible as the input will always out-weigh the output. ie. there will always be outside influences, like... the name of your first dog as…

Lysdexic.

Y'know, if we rearranged those letters, we could turn him into our very own butler. Except we'd have an extra r. He's not of Southland or Beijing origins, is he? Cos I think butlerr would work just as well, and I rather prefer the idea…

The new information we forced Key to release this afternoon. shows that the PM’s office had access to the full Emails between the journalist Andrea Vance and MP Peter Dunne, without their consent. Link below.
Backgound: On Thursday in the House I forced Joyce to admit to…

Alistair MacLean was so right
Fear is the Key!
(or was it Yoda)

News Flash: A prominent rock guitarist was earlier today investigated by authorities on suspicions of paedophilia. The authorities justified their investigation from the following sentence found on a Web forum he frequented: “I snapped a G-string…

Key: This is more private. Besides, I rather like it. The dark . . . the silence. Helen told me these caverns extend for miles but I’ve never taken the time to…

Billboard?

Just Relax Ian. They're watching out for you.

"In New Zealand there are people who’ve been trained for al-Qaeda camps who operate out of New Zealand, who are in contact with people overseas, who have gone off to Yemen and other countries to train.
from that Herald article

I suspect he is talking truthfully……

And not long before that, Annie Thracks got a surprise visit from the authorities.

MWDs.... umm.... Mollycoddled Wastrel Delinquents?

#tui

Anyone here with friends, family, coworkers ‘training’ in Yemen?

Basically, no. They have all the other information to match with, which cuts past the noise.

It's a reason they are now more interested in mapping who you communicate with, rather than what words you use.

Metadata..

Or perhaps we'll have worked out that it is very real, but we need to do a little rectification of names and call it the “war on democratic freedoms".

maybe we'll have worked out that the 'war on terror' is also largely 'virtual'

We'll drain their data crystals. But that might leave us vulnerable to the Faceborg!

Which seems to get a few perfectly harmonious sites blocked in China because they share hosting with something the lads in Zhongnanhai would rather we aren't allowed to see, just in…

I don't think anyone has explained why this is happening, so here goes:
It's very common for web hosting to share multiple sites from a single IP address, what's called "name-based…

Our bold Cap. Kirk puts a stop to this by hitting the Big Red Button; detonating all the missiles at once and 'killing'…

Whenuapai is probably a good bet.

More important is the claim that they are basically recording all TCP sessions, recognising the SMTP (email) ones, reassembling the packets into emails and storing them indexed into…

Have a read of Micha Glenny's 'McMafia' book sometime if you want exactly this in detail,…

Steganography, with junk data! I think I have a new hobby ;-)

Don't trust that to be secure! If you must DIY your cryptography, at least generate your own random keys!

Well any way, perhaps we should all start…

See, now extra secure.

Jung pbhyq cbffvoyl tb jebat?

I was thinking about this the other night, about encryption and cyphers.
The simplest form of encryption could be considered is assigning a number to the letters of the alphabet, like…

Major international syndicates all appear on the top 20 criminal target lists of Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Britain and Canada. "The results were telling," Clare said. "We are all targeting the same people."

Funny these particular five countries would be listed...…

Exactly but I wonder how many of that brigade stand by JK"s secret deals with Sky City or Warner Bros.
Double standards or what?.

that was the argument, yes. Privileges Committee should be able to unravel this – if all its members cooperate.

(That the business of Parliament requires a degree of confidentiality that doesn't sit well with the presumption of openness in the OIA.)

The current constitutional outrages? Er, not so much ...

@PeterDunneMP now says Henry Inquiry was aware of cell ph calls he'd made despite never asking for his cell ph call records

and the pendulum swings acording to the mood of the politicians and media over time

deliberately made that way by our politicians.

It took me a while to untangle it all ...

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Accuracy and attention to detail are important for both
journalists and politicians, not…

I wasn't really following it, but on the radio news this morning, someone from the parliamentary press gallery said something like "having to use a Parliamentary Services supplied phone they…

Iain Rennie came to me and recommended Fletcher or the GCSB job

I told Cabinet that I knew Ian Fletcher

I forgot that after I scrapped the shortlist for GCSB job I phoned a life-long friend to tell him to apply for…

(Un)Official Merchandise Of The GCSB

I can't see why a journalist – any journalist – would use Parliament's phone system rather than his/her own cellphone. Are Parliament…

And now Dunne has said without qualification that Henry told him he was requesting his phone records so he could compare them with Vance's. There's no other way way to read that…

You'd think given recent history they would learn to treat everything said to them by politicians or their staff as a well-planned lie needing further questions and verification. #tame

Idiot/Savant notes Carter first claimed that records were requested but not supplied, and now supplied but not requested.

Henry claims that he never requested those records, and had instead been seeking records of Ministers. But its hard to see why they would have been supplied except in…

Speaking of which, Halliburton has just been pinged big time for destroying evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Very Yes Minister-esque, e.g. "There is no evidence Jon Stephenson was spied on .. we've made quite sure of that".

Gets…

One of the games played in our household at the moment is "With what technicality can this denial be true, while…

A minister always takes the salary, but never the responsibility.

Thank goodness for outsourcing, I say!

Henry had been called in by Key to investigate an unauthorised leak to Vance of a report on the Government Communications Security Bureau.

It has previously been confirmed that Henry was provided with electronic records tracking Vance's movements in the parliamentary complex.

Carter said today he became aware…

Answers to questions from Russel Norman indicate that Parliamentary Services DID hand over Andrea Vance's phone records to David Henry.

How and why were we told otherwise in the first place?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/what-the-ashcroft-hospital-showdown-on-nsa-spying-was-all-about/

Seriously though telling someone at the bank "there's a hole…

The problem is that the current centralised system takes care of much of what we need quietly behind our backs but it provides a single point of failure…

“Strongly encrypted data are virtually unreadable,” NSA director Keith Alexander told the Senate earlier this year.

Unless, of course, the NSA can obtain an Internet company’s private SSL key. With a copy of that key, a government agency that intercepts the contents of encrypted communications has the technical ability…

It should also be remembered that government and government-controlled organisations are in the trusted certificate authority lists of your typical browser. That means that they can redirect your internet traffic through…

"Minister hears what suits him"

Have they actually denied spying on him in any way? The report I heard said they denied any unlawful/illegal surveillance. Given that the legality of what the GCSB et al have been doing is one of the points at issue, y'know....

Yep. Which was my point, but poorly made.

a safeguard not available with warrantless mass surveillance

I was discussing this on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Zagzigger/status/361664892014567424

Where RussB suggested I check in here.

Hi!

I haven't yet caught up but here is my thought.

We have a secret order…

I'm not arguing because I have a strong sense that I'm right – I hope I'm ... er... trying to discuss what I think is actually a really complex issue.

I think there is a mixture of…

Or should that be unpersoned by the Ministry of Truth?

I guess they terminated him.

"Because I want to sell a story to a magazine" is clearly different to "because I want combat a subversive threat to the state".

Who is objective
Why is subjective

Who is doing the spying and why is an objective difference.

Yes, you're right. I'd argue this is what made it more pernicious, in that the security organs of the state were compromised and so…

You don't have to be sorry, but you're…

Unless they get their allies to do it for them.

I'm sorry but I disagree. I think we've seen ample evidence of the harm, personal and political, that can be done by a tabloid newspaper. It's worth noting that some of the media empires have…

No they just record the entire conversations – or had you forgotten the recent events in Britain.

Don't get me wrong I think the NZDF failed completely when they chose to target Jon Stephenson, who has a record of fair and…

And power. There is literally no comparison to be made between a Nation State and tabloid newspaper.

This is an important point. For an agency whose oversight is secret, how can a counter-argument be made? In this case an Inspector-General has a duty to ensure that all actions are scrupulously legal. We should all have a pony…

I agree but that is the key difference. There doesn't appear to be an objective measure that defines one spying as innocuous tattle and another as a threat to personal freedom.

Instead it's the intent that makes the difference.…

There was a chap in the US who did…

(Not driven at all by a desire to see it make 1000 requests this week)

Oddly, when I connect to https://publicaddress.net it tries to use a certificate for www.simpsongrierson.com and then redirects to http://publicaddress.net.

A journalist with a telephoto lens is not an arm of the state.

And of lesser importance, a B-list Celebrity! Naked! Sunbathing!, is not a journalist…

Most papparazi don't get to steal your telephone metadata, and can't call up a drone strike on you if you offend them.

Someone also suggested on Saturday at Parliament that we should commit a DOS upon the GCSB through the FOIA -…

I had an epiphany when chatting to a colleague last week. We were discussing Sir Paul Condon talking about institutionalised racism in the London Met.

The people who work in these services are…

How much difference is there between the NZDF spying on Jon Stephenson and a journalist with a telephoto lens spying on a B-list celebrity?

I think because of the value of Stephenson's work in revealing practices most kiwis would…

Our very close friends, who no doubt help when asked, have a garden big enough.

You probably were. But ... bless.

My beloved told me I was being too intellectual...

But NZDF weren't spying on Stephenson's communications, they were spying on his metadata. While there's no statutory authorisation for that, there's also no statutory prohibition either – something the Police at least seem to have regard as…

I can tell you you're being harvested daily by a state agency.

On the upside, that agency is the National Library. So that's cool.

But the rise of what Kim…

The hostility to investigative journalism is an outcome of the ongoing politicisation of the public service. When parliamentary and departmental staff are driven by the imperative to Protect The Minister From Embarrassment – to the point where…