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Dampening the Hacker’s Fire
Ten to fifteen times a day, seven days a week, I receive a mail from my server - where this small blog is hosted - warning me that someone, somewhere, is trying to break into my system and take over what I have built during the last few years. I could, perhaps, feel a certain level of pride that my server, out of all the servers in the world, has been selected for this elite attention....
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Looking For a Hero
It is going to take a long time for constitutional lawyers to work through the 6-3 Supreme Court judgement handed down yesterday, but one thing is sure: the decision of the six judges giving the President of the United States, regardless of who it may be, immunity from many actions otherwise illegal, will have far-reaching consequences. Those consequences do not remain within the borders of the United States, but have far wider implications: if the President cannot be prosecute for actions taken which might be loosely termed as National Security, the ramifications for other high officials and their countries disagreeing with the corporate, capitalist, nationalist values of the USA becomes…
