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PeterDowley
Still catching up on blogs and podcasts after my 3 weeks away in China last month ...
| PeterDowley @noony Yes, NAB's email system wouldn't let me set any longer ;) |
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| PeterDowley Saudi Arabia has obivous parallels with prohibition USA; haven't seen Elliot Ness yet tho |
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| PeterDowley @rmogull Brian Krebs must track them because he publishes some stats annually. OS X alone must be towards 100 vulns in the 4 sec updates |
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| PeterDowley @DDrazic my ADSL bandwidth is quite poor here tho, so it might take a while for the sun to upload ... |
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| PeterDowley @DDrazic We've got some spare sun here that you could borrow ... get well soon mate |
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| PeterDowley Although most of the good security blogs were available thru the Great Firewall of China; I only found personal blogs blocked |
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| PeterDowley Only downside of a 3 week holiday is that I'm SOOO behind on podcasts |
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| PeterDowley Woo-hoo - an apartment has become available at one of the compounds; heading there tonight |
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| PeterDowley I expected the football passion here in Saudi, but have been very surprised to see so much cricket on Al Jezeera Sport. |
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| PeterDowley Damn, sometimes your lost luggage gets to better places than you. My suitcase has just returned from a holiday at Langkawi in Malaysia. |
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| PeterDowley Woohoo - just heard that my baggage has arrived! It took 5 days - I wonder how far it got? |
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| PeterDowley Turns out that they were expecting a westerner at that time, so the guards waved me through. Also skipped their normal bomb checks. |
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| PeterDowley Overcame some serious security today; taxi driver took me to the wrong armed gate and I was accidentally let into office of a Saudi prince. |
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| PeterDowley Lunch by the pool; you can see why people like the Saudi compound lifestyle. Need the A/C though! |
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| PeterDowley @DDrazic Compounds don't have security guards as per western countries; they look military (helmets, flak jackets, etc). |
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| PeterDowley BTW the physical security measures at the residential compounds are very impressive; guards look to be armed for a small war! |
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| PeterDowley Will be visiting some residential compounds in Riyadh today; quite an important decision |
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| PeterDowley Ahh, Hong Kong. It's so nice to be back in the world of proper broadband internet speed again after our time in mainland China. |
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| PeterDowley Interesting using the Octopus smart cards in HK; wonder if they're as hackable as the Oyster cards in London & Europe? |
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