The Shady Project

From Politics | Mother Jones
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Pretty much the best explanation of the current Greek/Eurozone financial crisis I’ve been able to find. And with a notable lack of the typical morality play nonsense that goes in to a lot of these discussions.

From Strange Maps | Big Think
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I’m always a bit jealous that I never think of these interesting geo visualizations first.

From Friendly Atheist
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We all know how much Jesus loved money.

Reminds me of this guy I used to work with back in Buffalo. He was a reverend at a local church, who always wore this large, ostentatious gold cross. Every time I spoke with him I made sure to mention how much Jesus loved gold. He never seemed to catch on.

From Schneier on Security
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I wonder if the Verisign VIP access software is based on RSA tech. If not, the relatively sudden move to using that software internally (as opposed to the RSA secureID) that was used before makes sense. If the VIP access tech is based on the RSA tech then why switch at all?

And since Symantec owns Verisign, I wonder what this information leak means for Symantec.

From Boing Boing
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This is utterly unsurprising, and in fact is what everyone with half a brain said would happen when the PATRIOT act was passed.

From Boing Boing
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Very interesting questions, with no good answers available. And don’t even get me started on the Private Student Loan lenders.