Tom Morris – Request for comment: a ‘Good API’ checklist and committee : Sane suggestions for good HTTP APIs
(tags: apis http rest open-data)Votomatic : Brilliant! “find out which political parties are compatible with you.” The app asks a few questions, you furnish survey-style responses, and it figures out which party is closest in published policy. It works quite well, determining that my optimum is Labour (correct)
(tags: policies politics ireland voting elections surveys)How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central | Magazine : the story of Ramnicu Valcea — Romania’s Silicon Valley of phishing
(tags: ramnica-valcea crime romania wired security spam phishing)U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’ | TorrentFreak : DHS/ICE domain seizures suffer a serious false positive problem, resulting in the seizure and shutting down of 84,000 subdomains of a free DNS provider, replacing them with a banner accusing the site of trafficking in child porn. whoops!
(tags: dhs ice censorship internet domains dns seizure false-positives child-porn)Israeli general claims Stuxnet attacks as one of his successes : ‘Haaretz reports [on a] video that was played at a party organized for General Gabi Ashkenazi’s last day on the job. The video contained references to the successes he achieved during his stint as chief of staff, [including] the Stuxnet worm attack on Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and and the nuclear reactor at Bushehr.’
(tags: israel iran stuxnet cyberwar via:slashdot malware)