Yearly Archives: 2013

egypt-flags_2608121bCairo, Egypt, last night.

Those debates are largely academic; what happened could be said to meet the definition of a coup, as well as that of a revolution.

But even though both words might apply, neither is in itself enough to describe what happened: It was both a coup and a popular movement, both the expression and subversion of Egypt’s democratic experiment.

And although some academic literature finds that coups can be democratizing that doesn’t make them democratic.

Is what happened in Egypt a coup or a revolution? It’s both (Washington Post)

Mohamed Morsi ousted in Egypt’s second revolution in two years (Guardian)

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Bluebox Security, a stealth security startup claims to have discovered a flaw in Google’s Android operating system which can enable rogue apps to gain full access to the Android system, read all data, harvest passwords and create a botnet and also turn any legitimate application into a malicious Trojan, completely unnoticed by the app store, the phone, or the end user.

Potentially, this could affect any Android phone manufactured in the last 4 years, some 900 million devices.

The flaw enables a hacker to modify the Master Key or APK code without breaking the cryptographic signature. A hacker could have access to any or all permissions on a device.

Everyone stay cool.

Uncovering Android Master Key That Makes 99% of Devices Vulnerable (Bluebox Security blog)

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Aidan Coughlan, editor of the buke and no stranger to bike-related calamity, has a  friend called Rachel (get him, etc.) who tonight had her Apollo Etienne 700C Trek 19, like the one above, pinched.

Aidan writes:

Nicked at Sandymount Strand [Dublin]. It was so new – less than two weeks old – that we don’t even have a picture of it. Yes, it was properly locked. Yes, they got it nonetheless. Little shits scamps.

 

Anyone?

dail dail2Within the last hour.

(Pix: Oisín Kane)

UPDATE: well that escalated quickly…

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UPDATE:

gatesJohn Gallen writes:

Somebody’s kid tried to climb the gates. When the guards pulled him down off the railings the Sinn Fein protestors started swiping the Gardai with their flags. The crowd responded well with chants of “peaceful protest”. Normalcy has resumed.

 

Update:

1044116_550216981690486_977480415_nPaul Reynolds writes:

Not a kid and not Sinn Fein supporters…

Enter Ming…

mingprotest3 ptotest2 feckprotestAbove: property tax hunger striker Tony Rochford.

(Pix: Oisín Kane)

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Brendan Grehan SC, defending Mr Whelan told Judge Martin Nolan that a matter has come to his attention which may jeopardise the trial in January or the trial going ahead at all.

 

Upcoming trial of Anglo’s Sean Fitzpatrick ‘may have been jeopardised’ (Independent.ie)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

9030617390306182903061759030618390306174President Higgins hosts Magdalene survivors at Aras an Uachtarain this afternoon.

From top: Bernadette Fahy, Geraldine Cronin and Mary Condon; Group shot; Mary Smyth; Miriam Malone and Geraldine Cronin.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)