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“Today, we see constant attempts by cyber means to steal the nation’s secrets, as well as information vital to the effective operation of critical national industries and infrastructure, not to mention commercial intelligence and criminal fraud,” said David Irvine, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).

“The cyber world will be a principal mechanism of warfare in the 21st century [and] has the potential to reduce the conventional and nuclear weapons advantage of a country.”

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Last month Canada’s Treasury Board confirmed there had been an unauthorised attempt to penetrate its networks after broadcaster CBC reported China-based hackers had attacked government computer systems.

This month the French Finance Ministry shut down 10,000 computers after hackers using Chinese internet addresses hunted for documents about the G20 group comprising the world’s biggest economies, which France is this year chairing.

Chinese hackers suspected in email breach – Connect – NZ Herald News

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Matt Fraction at w00tstock, ruminating upon the various meanings of comic books. He goes through his childhood experiences with comics, why comic books work as a medium, and how he went about killing a villain when he was first given the chance. This presentation is equal parts hilarious, insightful and entertaining.

(via Chad Collier – The Batman Dreams of Hieronymus Machines – TwitVid)

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Keynote: MarkPesce (by linuxconfau)

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They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born.

A group of 70 or so “books”, each with between five and 15 lead leaves bound by lead rings, was apparently discovered in a remote arid valley in northern Jordan somewhere between 2005 and 2007. (via BBC News – Jordan battles to regain ‘priceless’ Christian relics)

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Here’s what we learned during the Great Depression, when our view of economics was revolutionized by John Maynard Keynes. In a recession, private individuals like you and me, perfectly sensibly, cut back our spending. We go out less, we buy less, we save more. This causes a huge fall in private demand, and with it a huge fall in economic activity. If, at the very same time, the government cuts back, then overall demand collapses, and a recession becomes a depression. That’s why the government has to do something counter-intuitive. It has to borrow and spend more, to apply jump-leads to the economy. This prevents economic collapse. Instead of spending a fortune on dealing with mass unemployment and economic break-down, with all the misery that causes, it spends the money on restoring growth. Keynes called it “the paradox of thrift”: when the people spend less, the government has to spend more.

The biggest lie in British politics : Johann Hari