How China Interferes in Australia|CFR

Fri 16/03/2018 Piotr Australia, China

Australia is pushing back against a campaign of political interference orchestrated by China.

Source: How China Interferes in Australia

Auschwitz guard goes on trial, says he shares moral guilt

Sun 03/05/2015

Lauren Weinstein: The more you know about this case, the more you realize it’s a ridiculous prosecution at this point. Nothing better to do, Germany? It’s too easy to seek justification for people who turned [...]

Poland’s New Majoritarians

Tue 07/06/2016

Long read, but a good backgrounder on what’s going on in Poland: Having seized formal political power with both hands, Kaczynski took the Party’s unprecedented electoral success as unquestionable justification to vehemently oppose any challenge [...]

Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services

Fri 15/04/2016

TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large number of Microsoft OneDrive accounts with private documents. Many [...]

Il grande torto di Renzi

Wed 19/02/2014

Renzi ha il grande torto di cercare il consenso invece del confronto a tutti i costi, soluzioni per il paese invece di battaglie donchisciottiane. Non glielo perdoneranno mai, quelli che preferiscono perdere le elezioni che [...]

Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot for the Middle East’s Mess | Foreign Policy

Thu 25/08/2016

Sometime in the 100 years since the Sykes-Picot agreement was signed, invoking its “end” became a thing among commentators, journalists, and analysts of the Middle… Source: Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot for the Middle East’s Mess | [...]