Link blog: security, crash, apple, cfit

The Sad Futility of Trying to Stop Planes Crashing | VICE | United Kingdom

“There’s a rule of thumb when you’re designing a complicated system, which says that when you get to a point where you’re applying fixes to fixes it may be time to step back and reconsider the whole thing.”
(tags: flight 911 aviation terrorism crash cfit security)

Doing Mathematics Differently | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science

“Explanation is a form of compression. If a theory is smaller than the data, then in that case, as in so many others, less is more. A successful explanation is a matter of covering a large debt with a much smaller one.”
(tags: mathematics philosophy science computation)

Apple vs the FBI: Whoever wins, it’s a mess – Franklin Veaux’s Journal

A good look at the technical detail of what the FBI are asking Apple to do.
(tags: apple FBI security encryption)

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Goodbye Delicious, hello Pinboard

Delicious have started adding spam to their RSS feeds, which probably means they’re circling the drain and are desperate for cash. I’ve moved all my bookmarks over to Pinboard instead, following in Andrew Ducker’s footsteps. I’ll delete the Delicious account in a few weeks, so if you happened to be following the RSS feed there (and getting the annoying spam), you should follow the Pinboard one instead.

I’ve hacked on the bookmark posting script a bit, and the regular bookmark postings on this blog (which are also copied to my LiveJournal) should be working again.

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