taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog

Apparently, I’ve just won a 3 broadband dongle. Sweet! Thanks Pat!

Now I need to recycle a mobile phone through the Jack and Jill Foundation to balance out the karma ;)

Tags: 3-ireland, competitions, mobile, mobile-broadband, mobile-phones

• Emergent Chaos: Certifiably Silly : Adam Shostack tells the truth re Firefox 3’s stupid self-signed cert bug. ‘imposing yet another security tax, based on a static analysis of attackers and some certificate authority pixie dust, isn’t going to help things for very long.’
  (tags: firefox firefox-3 security certificates ssl tls ca pki adam-shostack ui usability)

• Image Cerberus: a SpamAssassin plug-in against image spam : a new plugin, subject of a paper at this year’s CEAS conference it looks like
  (tags: plugins spamassassin anti-spam image-spam images ceas conferences)

• Twitter drops SMS-notification support for EU users : interesting, I haven’t received the mail, and it claims to still be sending updates to my Irish mobile (update: I’m not actually *getting* any updates, though)
  (tags: twitter phones mobile sms ireland eu uk)

Tags: adam-shostack, anti-spam, ca, ceas, certificates, conferences, eu, firefox, firefox-3, image-spam, images, ireland, mobile, phones, pki, plugins, security, sms, spamassassin, ssl, tls, twitter, ui, uk, usability

Adrian Weckler posts details of Vodafone Ireland’s new flat price datacard; costing 50 Euros per month, including VAT; fully flat rate (hooray, something useful at last!); and they claim that they’ll be rolling out HSDPA, which offers 1.2Mbps to 11Mbps rates, ’starting in Dublin in October’.

Those are great numbers, but further info seems thin on the ground; they haven’t bothered updating their own website yet, amazingly.

Anyone got further info? What rates does it offer right now? How would one order such a beast?

Tags: 3g, dublin, hsdpa, ireland, mobile, vodafone