A brief thread on a new feature we've rolled out at @vizlegal that we're particularly proud of! Apologies to any non legal types (but techies might like it too!).
One complaint we've heard over and over again from Irish legal practitioners is trouble with court rules. "Messy", "difficult", "might be out of date" and some more choice words have been used to describe them..
So Irish court rules are bit like the CPRs in England & Wales. They're the legal basis/rules for how practitioners interact with the courts. In Ireland they are based on Statutory Instruments that stretch back to at least 1986.
Just thinking about the Facebook hack again. Short thread I promise.
This is speculation and scenario speculation. But imagine for a moment it's a sophisticated attacker (which it might well be), and they have a purpose in mind.
First, build a target list of Facebook IDs you want to pwn. Let's say the top 2,000 people in the world whose accounts you want to compromise and see /exfiltrate their private Facebook messages, activity etc. We already know Zuck and Sheryl were compromised.
So the silence from @facebook over the weekend is.. deafening.
It's the biggest hack of Facebook ever. And is up there with the biggest (if not *the* biggest) hacks of all time.
What I imagine very stressed engineers were doing over the weekend: 1) trying to estimate how much data was exfiltrated from Facebook servers by hackers 2) Trying to establish with third parties who use FB SSOs to see how much other data was exfiltrated
he says he's "very familiar with the Irish border", and then confuses the customs union with customs and excise enforcement.
I was a barman in Dublin for 3 years. In Dublin, bars take euros. Sterling is a foreign currency. It's not complicated really. (bar *staff* would sometimes take sterling 1:1 when sterling was strong, but those days are long, long gone)