[ILUG] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[Niall Sheridan]

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 Niall

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:02, Niall Walsh <niallwalsh at users.berlios.de> wrote:
> Nice little piece spotted at http://paste.debian.net/plain/99996/
>
> While double checking that ILUG wasn't at the same game I noticed it does want
> to run javascript from twitter now on the homepage.
>
> More ironically (should that be moronically) the "Irish Council for Civil
> Liberties" can be added to the list.
>
> I didn't include the full contents for fear of making random recipients on the
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> Niall
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