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The problem with NPfIT is the "NP" bit
Something interesting about the NHS NPfIT project. During my recently completed two-week conference binge, I spoke to people from a British telecommunications company who were fresh, if that’s t… more →
Alternate Seat of TYR
the problem with NPfIT is the "NP" bit
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yorksranter wrote 2 weeks ago: Something interesting about the NHS NPfIT project. During my recently completed two-week conference … more →
police and thieves
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yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: Bruce Schneier and Jason Sigger, usually sensible sources, both mock a study by some thinktank or ot … more →
know your spies
yorksranter wrote 4 months ago: A field guide to sinister Middle Eastern spy chiefs. … more →
did you know Twitter stimulates Shatner's bassoon?
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yorksranter wrote 4 months ago: Quite ridiculous microtale about the head of MI6’s wife being on Facebook. But what’s th … more →
Andy Coulson and the Law
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yorksranter wrote 4 months ago: Much fuss about the yellow press listening to voicemail through knowing the default passwords. I … more →
giant symbol crashes and overturns, killing billions of dollars
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yorksranter wrote 5 months ago: You thought the Hummer being put on the block was symbolism? This is symbolism: the bloated, militar … more →
HOWTO be a Cyberwar Expert
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yorksranter wrote 7 months ago: F-Secure Labs’ blog points to Cyberwar is Bullshit. I say yes! And I point you to Evgeny Moroz … more →
Chalabi: a place in history
yorksranter wrote 7 months ago: Interesting to see Ahmed Chalabi admit essentially everything I suspected of him back in 2004. This … more →
the science of drivel
yorksranter wrote 7 months ago: The impact of terrorism; new research demonstrates that people who survive terrorist attacks think m … more →
spybreak!
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yorksranter wrote 7 months ago: Here are two news stories whose contrast should tell you a lot, via Charlie Stross. Spy chiefs fear … more →
tearing up the astroturf
yorksranter wrote 8 months ago: Tim Ireland of Bloggerheads has a hell of a story. Now, I’ve not always been totally convinced … more →
meet the new boss...
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yorksranter wrote 8 months ago: Ruth Sunderland of The Observer (aka Decent Pravda) is on a campaign for more women on the boards of … more →
spies
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yorksranter wrote 8 months ago: “Londonstani” has a superb post at Abu Muqawama about Ed Husain’s The Islamist. Re … more →
down at Abu Asterisk's mobile phone shop again
yorksranter wrote 8 months ago: Mumbai privilege-escalation attack news. Dawn reports that a Pakistani colonel has been identified i … more →
stupidity quantified
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yorksranter wrote 9 months ago: A total disjuncture between cost and value; such was the problem facing Gorbachev. Consider this; Pa … more →
Bull
yorksranter wrote 9 months ago: This is wrong; Gitmo will be closed. Binyam Mohammed will be returned to Britain, or put on trial in … more →
your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation
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yorksranter wrote 10 months ago: So, we looked into the fake phone call to Mr 10%’s office. We even did a little HOWTO. If you … more →
be your own Stanislas Petrov
yorksranter wrote 11 months ago: Remember this post? Well, Geoff Forden at Arms Control Wonk has a brilliant series on the system tha … more →
ASATing with lawyers
yorksranter wrote 11 months ago: Here’s an interesting sidelight on the satellites post below – “somebody” is … more →
