[Bradford] Meeting notes

[Alice Kaerast]

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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