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For those of you that think that there's a lot goes on that we don't get told about, there's a programme about Porton Down on BBC 4 tonight. It's a repeat and from watching it before I think the word that stuck in my mind was 'unsettling'.

After that, the utterly magnificent Edge of Darkness. It's getting on a bit now but if you're old enough to remember the 1980s and you've not seen it before, you've missed out. There's a scene a couple of minutes long in the first episode with no words, just some music in the background, which ends with Bob Peck holding a teddy bear and a revolver. It's a spellbinding piece of acting, but the whole thing remains one of the landmark TV dramas.

I'll watch them with a glass of wine this evening, having first checked that it isn't full of anthrax, novichock or polonium.

T.

In reply to Tony Buckley:

then you weren't doing it properly! 

In reply to Tony Buckley:

Last night's Storyville on the Israeli's Pegasus spyware programme was decent too 

In reply to Forest Dump:

That program was very interesting for several reasons.

How does Pegasus get installed on a phone in the first place? Is there any technical analysis of it available?

In reply to Tony Buckley:

I was thinking of doing exactly that, Edge of Darkness felt really groundbreaking to a teenage me.

In reply to Rob Parsons:

Tends by be via zero click exploits iirc.This paper does a fairly in depth analysis.  If you can't get the full text then drop me a UKC pm and I'll send you the full pdf.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9799180

In reply to Rob Parsons:

See below! Also found it interesting how it was bandied about as diplomatic sweetener, no different to traditional arms really

In reply to Tony Buckley:

Watched Dark Water with my better half. Now that was thought provoking. I knew a little about DuPont"s duplicitous disposal of dangerous chemicals,  but not anything about pdfa's/C6 chemical bonds. Mark Ruffalo stars in an absorbing drama. I'll never buy a Teflon pan again.

In reply to Tony Buckley:

A good programme and I agree about 'Edge of Darkness' - one of the best dramas of British TV.

Dave

In reply to Sean Kelly:

Absolutely cracking film.

In reply to Sean Kelly:

Read and/or watch A Civil Action. Similar stuff and equally well told. Don't be put off by Travolta starring in the adaptation. He's good with a great ensemble around him. The book is maybe a bit dry, but readable. 
I really liked Dark Water but there was one minor distraction....

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Now I am intrigued!

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Yes do elaborate, I thought it pretty good.

In reply to Sean Kelly and Pedro50:

Mark Ruffalo's age and appearance. He's a good looking chap etc but he can not pass for a young lawyer in his early-mid 30s at the start of the film  

Dang. Sean you got ME calling it Dark Water too. It's Dark Waters. Dark Water is a 2005 remake of the Japanese Honogurai mizu no soko kara, starring Jennifer Connelly.

In reply to Tony Buckley:

Cheers for the heads up. The excellent Edge of Darkness is always worth a rewatch. The Iplayer is linking 2 episodes into one, which confused me a bit. The paired episodes continue for the next two weeks.

In reply to Tony Buckley:

I'd like to see Bird of Prey again (the early 80s "techno thriller" with Richard Griffiths).