Strangely Perfect

Much merriment is being made about the Spanish  presidency website being hacked and Mr Zapatero’s image being replaced by that of Mr Bean.  See Mr Bean replaces Spanish PM on EU presidency site However, the images also seem very similar to those of France’s President Sarkozy.  Are they all, in some way, related?

This is not a rant comparing the US military against others for effectiveness.  It’s purely my observation of events and appearances surrounding the current (10 years!) piracy problem on the high seas. This is the homepage of the US 5th Fleet above. All clean and big and modern and powerful and heroic (Take My Breath [...]

In an interesting twist to the news today, both the UK military, the US military, the Russian military and the Ukrainian military have shown themselves to be totally useless! The UK have had RAF personnel files stolen from a high security base in Gloucestershire!  Personnel records stolen from MoD In the current climate, this is [...]

The latest in the long-running sage that the British Government is trying to spell out called: Why We Will Win The “We Are the Best People to Put All Your Information in an ID Card and Lose It” Competition. http://www.itworld.com/security/54342/uk-justice-agency-loses-45000-personal-records goes the story.  In a FOI release the Department of Justice has said it’s lost [...]

My recent post email-spam-trojans-hiding-on-websites-as-msnbc-breaking-news-items led with the effect and infection method for the Win32/Agent.ETH trojan.  Well now they’ve changed their attack a bit but the Trojan is the same… :-? Now the emails have the following identifiers: From:     Top News Agency Subject:  Weekly top news The sequence of events shown at the beginning of the [...]

Yet again, there’s been another swipe of the axe at the great lumbering hulk of the UK’s ID Card scheme.  Surely it must be ditched as the biggest monstrous waste of money and eroder of personal freedoms for normal folk ever seen in history? Hijackers escape with bundles of UK passports: Guardian Blank passports stolen [...]