Cameron’s Fecking Controls
There are two problems with this image. The first is obvious. BT is blocking LinkedIn. LinkedIn? Really? The second is perhaps only immediately obvious to me. It is this: I don’t have fecking Parental...
View ArticleThe other drug money
This is from Science Daily yesterday: Are these the same scientists that we educate with our money to be paid by the drug companies to produce statistics that will persuade the politicians who we pay...
View ArticleThe agony of indecision – Windows 10
It’s just sitting there. Mostly it’s being quiet – but every now and again it pops up: ‘Here I am. What are you going to do about me.’ Well I don’t know. Do I install Windows 10 and obey the business...
View ArticleSection 94 – the UK Section 215
Julian Huppert, lecturer at Cambridge and formerly a Lib Dem MP, has written about a disturbing piece of legislation that most of us don’t know exists: Section 94 of The Telecommunications Act 1984. It...
View ArticleHave Lynch and Europol just set in motion a solution to the Microsoft problem?
It’s a conundrum. Microsoft is caught between two masters: Europe, where it is desperately seeking to increase marketshare against the dominant Google; and the US, its homeland overlord that it must,...
View ArticleWho are you – scammer or victim?
I believe that paranoia should be part of everybody’s security armoury. It is free. It scales up and down automatically in reaction to different circumstances. And while it should never be relied upon,...
View ArticleECJ Says Safe Harbor Is Not So Safe
‘A milestone’ or a ‘historical’ decision cry the media around the world. It is like a deluge of comments and articles. The Open Rights Group speaks of a ‘Landmark victory for Privacy rights’. Like a...
View ArticleGet ready for some serious DoubleSpeak
Two mutually exclusive principles continue their collision course: the European demand for privacy and the US demand for access to personal data. On Monday this week the European Justice Commissioner...
View ArticleTalkTalk’s Failure over Incident Response
TalkTalk’s incident response has been an unmitigated disaster. Let’s look at some of the facts… CEO Dido Harding told the Sunday Times (after earlier admitting that she did not know if the stolen data...
View ArticleThe European Parliament Demands Protection for Snowden
The European Parliament, that is, the only elected and democratic part of the European Union, has passed a new resolution: Calls on EU Member States to drop criminal charges, if any, against Edward...
View ArticleAshley Madison Site Has Been Hacked And Why Should It Matter?
This week in the UK, the first news came from the Mumsnet site taken down by DadSecurity ‘Mumsnet’s co-founder suffers ‘swatting attack’ Titled BBC News. After OPM, Sony, Anthem hacks, after...
View ArticleTyupkin gang arrested by Europol
Europol has disrupted an East European gang using the Tyupkin trojan to steal from bank ATMs. Eight people have been arrested following house raids in Romania and Moldova. Few details have been...
View ArticleNorse – and a lesson for all of us
Hearing that Norse is apparently on the verge of imploding (see Krebs) reminded me of a conversation I had with Ilia Kolochenko, founder and CEO of High-Tech Bridge, last year. The gist of that...
View ArticleiPhone and the FBI backdoor
Much is being written about the FBI’s court order instructing Apple to provide a backdoor into a terrorist’s iPhone. And much praise is being heaped upon Apple for its disinclination to do so. This...
View ArticleWhat future for BT Openreach?
What should be done with Openreach? Tomorrow Ofcom will present its conclusions from a review of the UK telecoms industry. In advance of the Ofcom announcement, this post considers some of the options....
View ArticleIf you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear
If you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. I have often expressed surprise and dismay at the apathy of the British voter. It’s almost as if we have a built-in desire to believe our...
View ArticleWho are you – scammer or victim?
I believe that paranoia should be part of everybody’s security armoury. It is free. It scales up and down automatically in reaction to different circumstances. And while it should never be relied upon,...
View ArticleECJ Says Safe Harbor Is Not So Safe
‘A milestone’ or a ‘historical’ decision cry the media around the world. It is like a deluge of comments and articles. The Open Rights Group speaks of a ‘Landmark victory for Privacy rights’. Like a...
View ArticleStatic on the line means uncertainty for broadband industry in wake of Ofcom...
As the UK regulator, Ofcom, wags its finger at BT, the UK broadband industry remains in a state of uncertainty. What prospect is there for a strategic leap to super-fast broadband as a national...
View ArticleGDPR’s new rules on privacy – will the UK play ball?
In October of last year, the EU’s longstanding Safe Harbor agreement with the US was overturned, ultimately thanks to the activism of Maximillian Schrems, an Austrian law student. Known as the Schrems...
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