Get 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 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 ArticleThe IOC effect?
The Streisand effect is well known in online circles. If you attempt to hide or censor something, you inevitably draw attention to it. The International Olympic Committee seems to have discovered, or...
View ArticleChina launches first quantum-enabled satellite
(… or, maybe not) Aside from the fact that it allows me to make a quantum joke, this article allows me to rant about quantum cryptography. Ever since I have started to research the security...
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 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 ArticleSecurity implications of quantum computing
Recently there has been a spate of media articles on how quantum computing is going to destroy the security world as we know it. These articles are all based on one report that has estimated how long...
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 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...
View ArticleThe IOC effect?
The Streisand effect is well known in online circles. If you attempt to hide or censor something, you inevitably draw attention to it. The International Olympic Committee seems to have discovered, or...
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...
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