"Hacking Web Applications: A Practical Demonstration"
Tomorrow I will be attending this lecture
"Hacking Web Applications: A Practical Demonstration"
by Martyn Ruks of MWR InfoSecurity (www.mwrinfosecurity.com)
I will take the laptop and try and blog from the lecture, I have no idea if I'll be able to. What with all the ridiculous censorship going on nowerdays who knows maybe it'll be a security risk.
What is this blurry image ? Well the other day when I was in London my coach station happened to be around the corner from Belgrave house. I thought, I'd pay a visit to the home of Google in Europe. So I approach the gorgeous building, wearing my geeky firefox hat. I walk through the automated spinning doors (So Cool) and head for the GIANT "Google" logo. I ask the present security personel, "Could I take a quick picture of the logo?" What for they ask, my blog I respond. Oh err after processing the word blog and coming up with nothing they decide to tell me "No" anyway.
Apparently it's a security risk. I am sick and tired of being stopped from doing normal basic stuff on the basis of security. This country is now so ridiculously tightly wound that everyone is so afraid to just let normal things happen.
The security guard even said that if I try to go in any public building in the capital now someone would stop me taking pictures. I nearly dragged his ass to Westminster Palace and photographed his useless self in the birth place of modern democracy, to remind him of exactly what it is all the "security" isprotecting eroding. Check me out... Shami Chakrabarti would understand.
Can anyone explain how me taking a picture of the Google logo is a security risk, how is this shot taken from the other side of the glass before running away, any safer. It's not like I shiftily approached and asked for some blueprints. Google EU HQ is hardly a state secret, it was funnily only just in last months GQ with an interview of the UK Director, that article gave the road name and everything - scary shit.
I didn't want photos of anyone else's logo (BAA are in the same building... shhh....) nor of the security personnel guarding the reception desk, just a bleeding logo.
As you can tell all this pissed me right off, coming only a week on the heels of being asked to leave a shopping center for again taking pictures... I'm beginning to spot a patten. I don't even remember the country being this crazy at the height of the 80s mainland bombing campaign b our Irish friends, you know when all the litter bins were removed from train stations platforms because of a REAL security risk.
Fine, rant over. Enjoy the picture.
ps To cheer myself up I went and had another coffee on my Starbucks card, thanks everyone, and then bought 12 Krispy Kremes... and I ATE THEM ALL (Not in one night).
I also found when walking through the subway that, the English Get a Mac Campaign was EVERYWHERE
"Hacking Web Applications: A Practical Demonstration"
by Martyn Ruks of MWR InfoSecurity (www.mwrinfosecurity.com)
I will take the laptop and try and blog from the lecture, I have no idea if I'll be able to. What with all the ridiculous censorship going on nowerdays who knows maybe it'll be a security risk.
What is this blurry image ? Well the other day when I was in London my coach station happened to be around the corner from Belgrave house. I thought, I'd pay a visit to the home of Google in Europe. So I approach the gorgeous building, wearing my geeky firefox hat. I walk through the automated spinning doors (So Cool) and head for the GIANT "Google" logo. I ask the present security personel, "Could I take a quick picture of the logo?" What for they ask, my blog I respond. Oh err after processing the word blog and coming up with nothing they decide to tell me "No" anyway.
Apparently it's a security risk. I am sick and tired of being stopped from doing normal basic stuff on the basis of security. This country is now so ridiculously tightly wound that everyone is so afraid to just let normal things happen.
The security guard even said that if I try to go in any public building in the capital now someone would stop me taking pictures. I nearly dragged his ass to Westminster Palace and photographed his useless self in the birth place of modern democracy, to remind him of exactly what it is all the "security" is
Can anyone explain how me taking a picture of the Google logo is a security risk, how is this shot taken from the other side of the glass before running away, any safer. It's not like I shiftily approached and asked for some blueprints. Google EU HQ is hardly a state secret, it was funnily only just in last months GQ with an interview of the UK Director, that article gave the road name and everything - scary shit.
I didn't want photos of anyone else's logo (BAA are in the same building... shhh....) nor of the security personnel guarding the reception desk, just a bleeding logo.
As you can tell all this pissed me right off, coming only a week on the heels of being asked to leave a shopping center for again taking pictures... I'm beginning to spot a patten. I don't even remember the country being this crazy at the height of the 80s mainland bombing campaign b our Irish friends, you know when all the litter bins were removed from train stations platforms because of a REAL security risk.
Fine, rant over. Enjoy the picture.
ps To cheer myself up I went and had another coffee on my Starbucks card, thanks everyone, and then bought 12 Krispy Kremes... and I ATE THEM ALL (Not in one night).
I also found when walking through the subway that, the English Get a Mac Campaign was EVERYWHERE
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