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Month: June 2006
Patrick Henry College
Last night I watched God’s Next Army a Channel 4 programme about Patrick Henry College. PHC is a christian evangelist college which takes largely home-schooled teenagers from religious communities and turns them into people who they believe will be at the forefront of the fight to “re-christianise” the USA. It was all very worrying. These… Continue reading Patrick Henry College
Talking to GLLUG
The nice people at GLLUG (the Greater London Linux User Group) have invited me to speak at their meeting on July 24th. I’ll be giving a slightly revised version of the “What’s Wrong with ORM” talk that I gave to london.pm in March. The meeting is free and there are a couple of other (far… Continue reading Talking to GLLUG
MPs in Digital Downloads Warning
The All Party Internet Group of MPs has been looking at DRM and has now announced it’s results. Their main recommendation is that all digital content should be clearly labelled with details of what you can and can’t do with it. I think this is a great idea. Record companies have been slowly introducing DRM… Continue reading MPs in Digital Downloads Warning
Typepad Update
As I mentioned yesterday I raised a bug report against Typepad because of its insecure password handling. This is the response that was waiting for me this morning. Thank you for your feedback on this. We will keep this in mind for future updates to the system. While we cannot share specific technical details on… Continue reading Typepad Update
Broken Password Handling
It’s six months since I wrote my rant on password handling and, of course, there are still companies out there who don’t seem to care about handling customers’ passwords with respect. Today I was surprised to find that Six Apart were one of the worst offenders. Following on from my earlier post I had a… Continue reading Broken Password Handling
Moving Elsewhere
I’ve been running the blog here for almost four years, but the recent spate of comment spam has made me reconsider my options. The comment spam seems to be under control for the time being, but I know it’s only a matter of time before it comes back again. So I’m thinking that maybe I… Continue reading Moving Elsewhere