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This is not the war you’re looking for

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Due to having had a bit of social life this weekend I’m a tad behind with the obligatory comment on the September 11 anniversary – but as it’s apparently compulsory I can’t let the date pass uncommented. On the bright side it also means I can largely just link to other people that have said what I want to say so much better than I would. Let’s start the ball rolling with Penn and Teller (H/T Angry Exile) From how we’ve reacted to that one incident and the subsequent nonsense in London – has basically meant that from the get … Continue reading →

Automatic fear updates

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Quite a while back I bemoaned the fact that MI5 weren’t kind enough to provide an RSS feed of the current UK threat level so I wrote a little script so I could know in real time if I should be more or less afraid, and so make sure that my fear and paranoia were at government approved levels at all times. Well it seems that they’ve finally* got round to providing an official RSS feed which is very nice of them and far more reliable than my efforts. You can find it here: https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/threat-level-rss.html Note it’s available over both … Continue reading →

TSA roundup

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Whilst the TSA “Scan or be groped” problem is currently restricted to the US, I’ve stumbled across enough articles discussing the matter of late that it seemed worth having a bit of a round up. If only because I know enough people that fly out there regularly and just as likely either the US will demand we have similar procedures (there being no point in having such procedures if people can avoid them simply by flying into the country) or we’ll copy them anyway. Over at Samizdata there’s a decent bit of discussion on if the searches are reasonable and … Continue reading →