taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog

DRI’s formal launch is next Tuesday:

December 6th sees the formal launch of Digital Rights Ireland, with a press conference in the Conference Room, Pearse St. Library, Dublin 2 at 11.30am. We would like to invite to you to come along - we’d welcome your support, and the chance to chat with you about your concerns after the main conference. Please feel free to invite anyone else who you think would be interested in digital rights. To give us an idea of numbers, we’d appreciate an email to <contact AT digitalrights.ie> to let us know if you’re planning on coming along.

Tags: conference, december, digital, dri, launch, pearse, press, rights, room, tuesday

Spam: I was just looking back through the archives here on taint.org, and noticed this entry from December 2 last year:

A huge 300 ft. high ocean wave is moving towards your continent. Your and many other cities are in a real danger. Approximate wave moving speed is 700 km/h. cmoym eaaa yypbzz

Please read more about this catastrophe here: (link)

We are strongly urging you to evacuate yourself and your family as soon as possible, even though you may live far away from your city. The tsunami will reach the continent in approximately FOUR hours.

It appears that the spam was a phish attack — the site in question is full of Internet Exploder exploits. It was ‘targeted’, at least as well as such things ever are, at Australian readers. AUSCERT issued a warning about it at the time.

But how’s about that for timing? Spooky! What did those phishers know?

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My googlism: apparently I’m a tool to autoretrieve news from popular, or am I scheduled to be tried on those charges in december? yikes.

Tags: autoretrieve, december, googlism, news, tool

More pics up on jmason.org, from the Casio watchcam over November and December, including two trips to Philip Island to see the penguins. BTW, “I am not lazy, I am surviving” is my new life motto.

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