The concept no longer exists in English law, all offences are arrestable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrestable_offence

A new one, hardly. They've been using it for 50 years. http://www.salon.com/2007/06/07/sensory_deprivation/

Interesting that this book was published about 10 years after 'Neuromancer' covered the same ground. Gibson must have done his homework well.

Unfortunately, they made the written offer via Snapchat, so it disappeared after 10 seconds.

If developers are using it today, then you will be next year, and the year after, when attack are more feasible.

I'm not a cryptography expert but if SHA-1 is too weak, and SHA-3 not quite there yet, why not SHA-2?

I don't believe you need to qualify that: they get to keep their voting rights, period. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11674014

In your obscure corner of the world, it may be big news. For the 95% of us who've never used it, sorry it's not, really.

Shrug. Chambers only gives Hallowe'en as the spelling, doesn't list Halloween as an alternative at all. Being annoyed about an alternative spelling seems a trifle odd to me, especially when it's the earlier one.

Aren't you about 40 years too late to be flabbergasted by an optimizing compiler?

Which reminds me of the sinister connection to Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov: http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/ft158.html

British police tend to say very little, to avoid being accused of prejudicing a future trial. The arrests were Sunday evening, and the suspects can be help up to 48 hours before being charged or released.* There isn't really much to add to the story until then; expect a further statement in a few hours. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24530867

*Although they could apply for a magistrate for an extension, in terrorism cases.

Well, you can't really blame Putin for preferring an evil dictator that sort of keeps the country together to letting the crazies in. It's pretty much what the West did with Saddam Hussein.

Because chemical weapons stocks are often poorly maintained and dangerous to handle and dispose of. Because working in NBC suits in a desert is a shit job to start with, without having to do it in a warzone.

Thankfully, the days when our admin people wanted a fax on headed notepaper before they believed a business was legitimate are long gone. However, the ways that legitimate business people identify themselves to you are still very primitive. If you're lucky they send you a notification that you can pick up a PM. Banks are often the worst, where they robocall you and want you to provide personal details before they tell you why they called.

Changing a DNS record is small beer, though. Social engineering by fax can acheive much more than that: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18251472/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/prison-releases-felon-after-getting-phony-fax/

He was a privy councillor and member of the National Security Council, so would have been security vetted. There's ten members of the latter at the moment, so it's a fairly exclusive club.