Monthly Archives: August 2009

links for 2009-08-26

Incompetence a bigger IT security threat than malign insidersThe Register Human error still the most prolific problem in IT provision, not purely security, which this report focuses upon. …..

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links for 2009-08-19

Ads body cuts off Skype ad after pic quality complaints • The Register •

In a minor triumph for common sense Skype has been slapped down by the UK’s ad regulator for running a TV ad which showed video and sound quality in excess of what viewers believed the VoiP service could manage in the real world.

(tags: skype performance advertising voip advertising-standards-agency uk common-sense)

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Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20100531083454/http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/links_for_2009_08_19
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links for 2009-08-17

I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist –

Care about civil liberties in the UK? Then you should support this. In a world where Google can take photographs of seemingly ever street in Britain, the individual deserves the right to photograph the world and events around them.

(tags: photography rights politics uk activism freedom police photos legal)

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Recovered link: https://horkan.com/2009/08/17/links-for-2009-08-17
Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20100531083454/http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/links_for_2009_08_17
Original link: ~~http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/links_for_2009_08_17~~