Reporting online terrorists

There was a small ripple around the internet this morning caused by the Home office opening up the Beta terrorist reporting tool. To what extent the reports from this tool are monitored is unclear, but I suspect this will cause more problems that it solves. Even before we consider the rather broad definition the government […]

Marcus Povey

There was a small ripple around the internet this morning caused by the Home office opening up the Beta terrorist reporting tool. To what extent the reports from this tool are monitored is unclear, but I suspect this will cause more problems that it solves. Even before we consider the rather broad definition the government […]

Fake police at Canary Wharf

A few days ago my father – a passionate amateur photographer – fell foul of Canary Wharf’s pretend police. His crime? Taking a photo of a shadow of a tree on a building. Initially it was two fake police which challenged him, demanding that he show them what photos he took on his camera. This […]

Marcus Povey

A few days ago my father – a passionate amateur photographer – fell foul of Canary Wharf’s pretend police. His crime? Taking a photo of a shadow of a tree on a building. Initially it was two fake police which challenged him, demanding that he show them what photos he took on his camera. This […]

Elgg 1.0 gatekeeper functions

This is just a quick post to introduce a pair of functions I wrote today while working on some of the Elgg 1.0 access control code. Namely, call_gatekeeper($function, $file = "") and callpath_gatekeeper($path, $include_subdirs = true), both of which return a boolean value. call_gatekeeper() This function tests to see whether it has the given method/function […]

Marcus Povey

This is just a quick post to introduce a pair of functions I wrote today while working on some of the Elgg 1.0 access control code. Namely, call_gatekeeper($function, $file = “”) and callpath_gatekeeper($path, $include_subdirs = true), both of which return a boolean value. call_gatekeeper() This function tests to see whether it has the given method/function […]