Daily Archives: 05/10/2024

More cyberstrange

Posted on 05/10/2024 by Jon Garvey

Five and a half thousand hits on The Hump from Phoenix, Arizona, this last month, according to my web-stats. They’re sucking off all the WordPress “embed” files on the site, apparently. Anyone there like to explain the interest, or is it just the eight cybersecurity firms in Phoenix doing their espionage thing and wasting electricity? I await men in black at my door…

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The demonising of authority

Posted on 05/10/2024 by Jon Garvey

I heard an interview with the Battle of Britain fighter ace Ginger Lacey the other day. Since it was recorded in the enlightened 1970s, the interviewer felt it mandatory to ask if Lacey had ever had doubts about the justness of the war, and consequently whether he had been troubled by strong emotions of hatred, or alternatively guilt, about shooting down and killing German airmen.

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