Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Police officer shoots himself
AN elite police officer learning to teach colleagues how to handle the force's new semi-automatic pistol shot himself while reholstering it.
The 30-year-old water police officer fired a shot into his thigh at the Glen Waverley training academy yesterday, and had to be admitted to hospital.
Victoria Police confirmed the leading senior constable, who has not been named, was on the third day of a 10-day course in training other members in how to use the semi-automatic Smith & Wesson pistol.
An insider told the Herald Sun the officer, who is experienced with guns, did not apply the safety catch and kept his finger on the trigger while reholstering.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Keys to the Internet
These smart cards are the actual keys to the Internet. There are seven of them and they hold the power to restarting the world wide web “in the event of a catastrophic event.”
The basic idea is that in the event of an Internet catastrophe, the DNSSEC (domain name system security) could be damaged or compromised and we’d be left without a way to verify if a URL is pointing to the correct website. That’s when the holders of these smart cards would be called into action:
A minimum of five of the seven keyholders – one each from Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China, and the Czech Republic – would have to converge at a U.S. base with their keys to restart the system and connect everything once again.
A minimum of five people is needed because each of the smart cards contains only a fraction of the recovery key necessary to set things right again. This means that no single person will hold all the power to resetting our little cyber world.
Friday, July 23, 2010
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