The judge knows that it's impossible to remove all copies from the Internet but he has ordered Google etc to work on the problem and demonstrate that they have spent some effort in trying as punishment for not being helpful earlier when the plaintiff asked them to clear his name.

I have worked in information security for 25 years and am always amused when people say something is "physically impossible". There is almost always a way. I have worked on forensic engineering for chip manufacturers, finding production faults by etching off layers using warm nitric acid and reading the secrets out of the circuit using a microscope. That technique can be used to make many copies of a card but nobody bothers because it's too time expensive and there are easier ways.

Ross Anderson's group in Cambridge are real experts in the chip and pin technology, they know that security implementation flaws often make cards vulnerable, for example see http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/09/10/chip-and-skim-cloning-emv-cards-with-the-pre-play-attack/

Many parts of the world still use only the magnetic strip. For years while Europe waited for the US to deploy chip and pin we saw European CC numbers being used in the US. Now NFC will make it easier for US based cloners to get just enough data from your cards to send to their cousins in other countries.

whose job it is to listen to all of the above people and produce a coherent design that both meets the requirements and works.

$ curl -vIs https://www.windowsazure.com/ 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep "expire date"
* expire date: 2013-11-15 18:15:53 GMT

Call this from a cronjob script which should then take suitable action if the date is too close.

The Gaelic/Celtic Calendar's new year's eve is still celebrated in many parts of the world although you now know it as Halloween. You can find out more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_calendar

was a Kinsale Coderdojo session in the Lilly factory canteen. Here's a video we shot of the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMODHilE4qk

I was working on public key cryptography in the late 70s while doing my undergrad degree in maths and electronics and got to know some of the people in that field. I have talked with PZ face to face about his experiences with PGP and government. I believe him.

http://www.tamersahin.com/mssecrets/hotmail.html TL;DR it was not easy!

Most companies that do this type of SSL inspection at their Internet gateways can get Internet Explorer (and such companies often standardize on IE) on the user's PCs to trust the fake certificate by pushing the fake Certificate Authority Root Cert through their Active Directory.

I help out at the local CoderDojo, it's like a youth club and we show them everything from Scratch through HTML & Javascript up to developing Android apps (for the older kids). The company I work for just donated 100 old laptops to allow kids without their own (or parents) laptop to take part.

Here's what it looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMODHilE4qk

They're looking for intelligence on Facebook? That should keep them searching for a while :-)

Here in Ireland we follow a Celtic calendar. Autumn (fómhar) is defined as the three month period with the Autumnal Equinox as midpoint. For simplicity, seasons nowadays align with the months of the Gregorian civil calendar so Autumn starts on the first day of August.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar

Kevin Mitnick was able to get mugshots of police that were investigating him by buying a police yearbook claiming it was a present for a relative who was a police officer.

"At one point, he went to a police station and found a Los Angeles Police Department yearbook for sale. It included photographs and names of the very undercover squads seeking him. He said he wanted to buy a copy as a gift for his police officer uncle. With no questions asked, for $75 he walked away with a photo guide to his pursuers."

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/hacking-the-system-because-he-could/question-2086111/

Please do not give the five trillion dollar coin to Mr Burns to deliver it ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Trillions