Interesting Links for 21-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• Edinburgh Reclaim The Night march rescheduled "for women's safety" in massive ironic fail from Edinburgh council.
  (tags: feminism women edinburgh)
• Apple Orders Technicians to Feign Ignorance About Mac Malware (and to not remove it)
  (tags: apple virus technology EpicFail)
• Barnes & Noble and Borders censor image of androgynous male model Andrej Pejic 'in case customers think he is a woman'
  (tags: borders censorship gender fashion magazines photography models sexism)
• Can Scotland pay its own way?
  (tags: scotland independence uk snp economics)
• Losing the AV referendum: a personal view from the Conservative Yes Campaign
  (tags: av conservatives)
• Me and Osama: Graham Lineham on creating a Twitter rumour about Bin Laden liking The IT Crowd.
  (tags: news socialmedia twitter socialnetworking grahamlinehan OsamaBinLaden)

Comments

Re: PEBKAC

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I agree that this is largely a PEBKAC issue. It is difficult to guard against that. But Apple perhaps haven't handled this situation well. Also how many pieces of malware do Apple techs have to be aware of compared to their Windows counterparts? It can't be that many.