The spiders are not insects, but in a war they will side with the insects. Traitors, traitors, spider traitors - they'll betray us and they'll make us human slaves, in an insect nation!
Gokna noticed, too. "Poor babies. They're the only ones she can scare. Watch! I'm gonna Give Ten to the Honored Pedure."
She turned away from the window and ran to the side wall—and then up the rack of audio tapes. The girls were seven years old, much too big for acrobatics. Oops. The rack was freestanding. It swayed out from the wall, tapes and assorted junk sliding to the edge of each shelf. Gokna reached the top before anyone but Viki realized what was happening. And from there she leaped out, grabbing the top molding of the soundstage window.
The rest of her body swung down against the glass with a solid splat sound. For an instant, she was a perfect Ten splayed out across the window. On the far side of the glass, Pedure stared in stupefied shock. The two girls shrieked with laughter. It wasn't often you could give such a perfect Ten, flaring your underwear in the target's face.
It's not every day you can "BA" an upstanding public figure :-)
Guess it helps if your parents are the alien equivalents of say a "Tesla" (quirky scientist/inventor) and (a big black widow version of) a "Doolittle" (general promoting modern warfare tactics).
>that right now GCHQ is monitoring spider threats from high end adversaries against 450 companies across the aerospace, defence, energy, water, finance, transport and telecoms sectors.
Soo... German Samsung, Boeing, Iranian power plants, Gemalto?
"And so inspired by Jennie Rigg’s brilliant tweet, here are extracts from George Osborne’s speech today, with “cyber” replaced with “spider”.
And it makes just as much sense."
No it doesn't. That's crazy. "Spiderspace"? The term "cyberspace" may be prone to abuse but it does mean something. "Cyber security" means something real. "Cyber-age" means something real. I'd prefer "computer" for the latter two, but it doesn't change the fact that "computer/cyber security" is a real problem. Nobody's going to hack into a spider and break all your grid electrical generators by over-revving them.
This is clearly just "I don't like X therefore all negative claims about X must be true". The claim that this speech makes just as much sense is so transparently ludicrous I can't imagine where else it comes from.
It would be far more effective to replace it with "public transportation" or something... except then it would be far more obvious that it doesn't work. Yes, it's a political speech, but no, it's not that vague.
What does it mean exactly? It's not a real place. It's a term from pre-mass-internet science fiction. It's not a term of art. It's not how people in the business talk about it. Talking about "cyber-" is nearly always a giveaway that somone doesn't know what they're talking about.
Computer security, yes. Or information security.
Part of the problem is that the UK government is trying to pass a law to enable their own use of "targeted equipment interference", i.e. state sponsored hacking. This prevents us having an honest conversation about who is defending against whom and how.
We could really do with a "cyber" Geneva convention globally prohibiting the use or secret development of hacking tools by governments against civilians, including their own civilians.
I am reminded of a scene at the end of the Sci Fi novel "The Mote in God's Eye" (note: title describes appearance of a local asterism - the book is a "first contact" type story). The alien ambassadors come back to meet the human politicians who throw a parade and start speechifying. The boss alien asks the translator minions "What is he saying?", to which they respond ... "but he has said nothing!"
Or like in the movie "Wing of Honneamise", a character goes to meet with officials and speaks for awhile in the standard language. One of the officials says, aside, to him "you can switch to vernacular if you like". The character responds, "oh, well in in that case I'm done speaking."
Joking aside, I think it's a fundamental problem to allow secret spy agencies to be in charge of a country's digital security. A cybersecurity agency should be easily reviewed for abuses. That's not possible with a spy agency. Not to mention the whole conflict of interest between offense and defense. How many times will the GCHQ decide to let some defenses compromised in order for it to maintain its offensive capability? That's an unacceptable conflict of interest.
You woudl rather a bunch of ex plods (ones who had to take medical retirement nudgenudge) who will sell juicey bits to their News international mates down the pub.
I know the type, met some of them British telecom when they tried to kibosh the internet as just some fad the "girls " in marketing where keen on.
Or Would you rather put Talk Talk in charge as they have done so well.
This is hilarious. I dislike how the word cyber has been used for things far from its original meaning. But I'm not sure I like "computer attack" any better than "cyber attack". Information ware fare? Offensive data war?
But this also makes me want to name some cyber security app "Shelob".
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I'm sure there's an appropriate time and place for spidersex, as long as it doesn't impact our cold war...
In the deep places, as the atmosphere snows down in the cold above.
She turned away from the window and ran to the side wall—and then up the rack of audio tapes. The girls were seven years old, much too big for acrobatics. Oops. The rack was freestanding. It swayed out from the wall, tapes and assorted junk sliding to the edge of each shelf. Gokna reached the top before anyone but Viki realized what was happening. And from there she leaped out, grabbing the top molding of the soundstage window.
The rest of her body swung down against the glass with a solid splat sound. For an instant, she was a perfect Ten splayed out across the window. On the far side of the glass, Pedure stared in stupefied shock. The two girls shrieked with laughter. It wasn't often you could give such a perfect Ten, flaring your underwear in the target's face.
Guess it helps if your parents are the alien equivalents of say a "Tesla" (quirky scientist/inventor) and (a big black widow version of) a "Doolittle" (general promoting modern warfare tactics).
Soo... German Samsung, Boeing, Iranian power plants, Gemalto?
And it makes just as much sense."
No it doesn't. That's crazy. "Spiderspace"? The term "cyberspace" may be prone to abuse but it does mean something. "Cyber security" means something real. "Cyber-age" means something real. I'd prefer "computer" for the latter two, but it doesn't change the fact that "computer/cyber security" is a real problem. Nobody's going to hack into a spider and break all your grid electrical generators by over-revving them.
This is clearly just "I don't like X therefore all negative claims about X must be true". The claim that this speech makes just as much sense is so transparently ludicrous I can't imagine where else it comes from.
Cyber is a trendy cliche but its a useful shorthand to the problem area.
What does it mean exactly? It's not a real place. It's a term from pre-mass-internet science fiction. It's not a term of art. It's not how people in the business talk about it. Talking about "cyber-" is nearly always a giveaway that somone doesn't know what they're talking about.
Computer security, yes. Or information security.
Part of the problem is that the UK government is trying to pass a law to enable their own use of "targeted equipment interference", i.e. state sponsored hacking. This prevents us having an honest conversation about who is defending against whom and how.
We could really do with a "cyber" Geneva convention globally prohibiting the use or secret development of hacking tools by governments against civilians, including their own civilians.
"Then you shall respond in kind."
I know the type, met some of them British telecom when they tried to kibosh the internet as just some fad the "girls " in marketing where keen on.
Or Would you rather put Talk Talk in charge as they have done so well.
But this also makes me want to name some cyber security app "Shelob".