Posts by EssEll

Going nowhere

This scumbag individual is going nowhere. Ecuador are highly unlikely to give him up now. UK police are not going in after him. He's unlikely to leave the building because at some point he will have to touch UK soil and then plod will have him. Ecuador can't currently make him a diplomat, because he's not Ecuadoran. He can't come out in a diplomatic bag because he's not a document.

There will have to be some fundamental change in the law, or someone will have to back down and eat some mahoosive humble pie before this toerag goes anywhere.

(Useful, if slightly old, background here.)

Dangerous precedent

This worries me. Whatever else Snowden is, he is an alleged criminal. He stands accused of crimes against his country and he is a fugitive from justice. He has not stood trial, and yet this person seems to be suggesting that he should receive immunity from prosecution on the basis of the crimes he has allegedly committed.

Where does the line get drawn?

Something you have, something you know

Based on the old security premise of "something you have + something you know", I use car registration numbers. I can remember probably about 10 of them, so my notebook contains reference to "Volvo" or "Volvo+BMW". They're already a reasonably randomised collection of numbers and letters which are reasonably unique to me, my family and friends and cannot be attacked through a dictionary attack.

And yes I agree with the Microsoft guys - I use cheap throwaway passwords for unimportant sites (like The Register ;-) ) but these much more robust passwords for more critical sites.

Dilbert. Of course.

I have a Dilbert cartoon over my desk, the punchline of which is: "One person's inability to understand often looks like another person's inability to explain".

It's funny 'cos it's true.

I reckon people are thinking about the Spectrum and it's keyboard through the rose-tinted, horn-rimmed spectacles of history. If and when they actually get their hands on one the horrible squishy have-I-really-pressed-it-or-not memories will come flooding back.

Sarah Jane

Surprised no-one's mentioned Sarah Jane. She got hit by everything and *still* went on to have her own series.