Monday, January 11th, 2010
We Still See Security Through a Lens, Darkly
My latest BBC column was at the end of the year, as I only seem to manage 3 weeks out of 4 at the moment because of the pressure of other things. It’s about contact lens displays and our inability to design security in from the start, and can be read on the BBC News [...]
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Stop. Look. Change your Password
[I've been neglecting this space for the last few weeks... this was published on the BBC News site on October 9]
If you use a web-based email service then here’s a public service announcement. Tufty the Squirrel says ‘Change your password. Now. Before you read the rest of this column. And if you use your webmail [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Being Open About Secrecy
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website too]
It must be tricky to be an advocate of transparency when your job involves selling serious encryption tools to government departments, large and small companies, hospitals and people who are concerned about having their bank account details hijacked from a home PC.
After all, the [...]
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Don’t have nightmares
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website. Or on any of the spamblogs that rip off my copy and use it as linkbait.]
Anyone concerned about the security of their computers and the data held on them might sleep a little uneasily tonight.
Over the past few weeks we’ve heard reports of serious [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:
Web curbs for Olympic journalists – What a surprise…
Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown – Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… – nasty little piece of [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Shouting ‘bug’ on a crowded Internet…
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website, and it's also on CircleID]
In the last few weeks we’ve seen two very different approaches to the full disclosure of security flaws in large-scale computer systems.
Problems in the domain name system have been kept quiet long enough for vendors to find and fix their [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 13th through July 17th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 13th and July 17th:
iPhone problems – how carphone warehouse took my iphone & ruined my credit rating
Mac vs PC – YouTube – Mac vs. PC – Halo Style
Android – Google’s Android platform: not so open after all
Schneier on Security: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks – We need a firefox extension [...]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 10th through July 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 10th and July 11th:
Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online – Distance Degrees.com – Useful list of places to look
BBC NEWS | Politics | Voters' data 'should not be sold' – Another sensible report to be ignored by the UK government…
Personal Internet [...]
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 4th through July 5th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 4th and July 5th:
Folke Koebberling and Martin Kaltwasser- Amphis at Wysing Arts Centre – Worth a visit
Slashdot | Working Towards an Eco-Friendly Fireworks Display – Heavy metals, toxic chemicals, pretty colours in the sky…
Virgin, BPI at odds as first infringement letters go out – typical incompetence and [...]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:
Detecting SSH tunnels « coderrr – more detail here
Slashdot | Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling – bugger. but another reason why traffic analysis should be as closely regulated as other forms of surveillance
OFT Refers Kangaroo To Competition Commission, Delaying Launch By Months | paidContent:UK – [...]
