[Bradford] Meeting notes

[John R. Hudson]

Hi Alice

What about adding at least part of this post as a comment to the meeting
notes?

John
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On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 19:02 +0000, Alice Kaerast wrote:
> Hi Bradlug,
> 
> 
> There's been some interesting updates to some topics covered at this
> month's meeting in the past few days.
> 
> 
> David's woes with formatting dates accurately have been felt by
> Twitter, who had a partial outage last night.  It was caused by some
> code simliar to the following:
> 
> 
>   scala> new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("w YYYY").format(new
> java.util.Date)
>   res0: String = 1 2015
> 
> 
> Oops, the java year-end leap week raises it's head again.  This is
> actually the first week of 2015 in java world, so Twitter was sending
> headers for 365 days in the future.
> 
> 
> This might be a good place to
> mention http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time and the linked follow-up post.
> 
> 
> And following on from t'other Dave's talk,  at 31c3 this week we
> learnt that security of the GSM mobile network is horribly broken (4G
> is marginally better).  And that the NSA can break at least some
> implementations of SSH and VPNs.  But it's believed that PGP, Jabber
> with OTR and RedPhone are probably still secure.
> 
> 
> Also at 31c3 was a talk on data flows at airports, nothing terribly
> new - but a decent slide deck I can use to do a powerpoint karaoke
> talk next month if people are interested.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Alice
> 
> 
> 
> On 21 December 2014 at 21:44, John R. Hudson
> <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>         Hi all
>         
>         Meeting notes from last Monday, complete with links - thanks
>         David and
>         David - are now up; I have also changed the Meeting page to
>         reflect the
>         fact that meetings in 2015 will now be on the second Monday of
>         each
>         month.
>         
>         John
>         
>         
>         
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