Comments for ChristopherWhite.info/blog http://christopherwhite.info/blog Some of Chris's musings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:16:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Minority leaders by Jimmy Rigid http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/11/05/minority-leaders/#comment-51200 Jimmy Rigid Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:09:15 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/11/05/minority-leaders/#comment-51200 Our PM ain't black - he's Brown. Parp! Mind you, we didn't elect him per se, did we? Our PM ain’t black - he’s Brown. Parp! Mind you, we didn’t elect him per se, did we?

]]> Comment on “Dick” is about right by ceri http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/10/06/dick-is-about-right/#comment-47534 ceri Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:31:58 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/10/06/dick-is-about-right/#comment-47534 Oh dear, I better take a look at the Met website and check I don't look like a wanted criminal. I may be a blonde female, but you can't be too careful. ANYONE could be a terrorist. I sit next to a guy from the Czech Republic at work, should I check out his background just to be sure? He is foreign, after all, and he may have walked past a mosque once. UPDATE - he owns a backpack! Maybe I should dob him in. Oh dear, I better take a look at the Met website and check I don’t look like a wanted criminal.

I may be a blonde female, but you can’t be too careful. ANYONE could be a terrorist. I sit next to a guy from the Czech Republic at work, should I check out his background just to be sure? He is foreign, after all, and he may have walked past a mosque once.

UPDATE - he owns a backpack! Maybe I should dob him in.

]]> Comment on Info security part 246735 by Christopher White http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/10/02/info-security-part-246735/#comment-44993 Christopher White Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:27:06 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/10/02/info-security-part-246735/#comment-44993 It is indeed Huw. And it's not the malice about ID cards that worries me most (though it worries me enough). It's the potential for fuck-ups just like this. Was watching an (old, I think) episode of Mock The Week the other night, and had to chuckle at Frankie Boyle pointing out that retina-scans-and-fingerprints ID cards won't stop identity theft*, but they will mean people needing new eyes and a wrist transplant. *Or fuck-ups. Bear in mind also that the ID and Passport service, in response to an FOI request of mine, claimed not to know whether they know of any ways in which it's possible to compromise ID-card security. Mind you, Cameron'll probably drop them after he walks the next election, so maybe it doesn't matter. It is indeed Huw.

And it’s not the malice about ID cards that worries me most (though it worries me enough). It’s the potential for fuck-ups just like this.

Was watching an (old, I think) episode of Mock The Week the other night, and had to chuckle at Frankie Boyle pointing out that retina-scans-and-fingerprints ID cards won’t stop identity theft*, but they will mean people needing new eyes and a wrist transplant.

*Or fuck-ups. Bear in mind also that the ID and Passport service, in response to an FOI request of mine, claimed not to know whether they know of any ways in which it’s possible to compromise ID-card security.

Mind you, Cameron’ll probably drop them after he walks the next election, so maybe it doesn’t matter.

]]> Comment on Info security part 246735 by Huw Davies http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/10/02/info-security-part-246735/#comment-44989 Huw Davies Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:43:22 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/10/02/info-security-part-246735/#comment-44989 Sigh. This kind of stuff just keeps happening, and while I don't want to get all Daily Mail about it, it's got to stop. And I completely, completely agree with you that ID cards are wrong. Very wrong. (I assume that's what you were referring to.) Sigh. This kind of stuff just keeps happening, and while I don’t want to get all Daily Mail about it, it’s got to stop. And I completely, completely agree with you that ID cards are wrong. Very wrong.

(I assume that’s what you were referring to.)

]]> Comment on One small step for science, one giant fart in the face for science journalism by Christopher White http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/09/10/one-small-step-for-science-one-giant-fart-in-the-face-for-science-journalism/#comment-41703 Christopher White Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:58:08 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2008/09/10/one-small-step-for-science-one-giant-fart-in-the-face-for-science-journalism/#comment-41703 Yes. But not from this. Yes. But not from this.

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