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There are not many silver linings on the cloud sitting over Information Security experts who work for the UK Government this Christmas.  Following the loss of personal information on welfare recipients by HMRC (twice), learner driver information by the DVLA, personal information on policemen binned in an unencrypted and intact form by Devon police, and […]

Ever since John Gage of Sun first offered the phrase “The Network Is The Computer” to the world, people have been using it as inspiration. Sun use it to explain that they mean Social Networking without actually using the phrase (they prefer the old fashioned “community”).
I think web 2.0 developers are offering a new […]

For months, ISPs in Europe have been campaigning to preserve their ‘mere conduit’ status, or in English they have been fighting to prove that they should be able to treat all packets, between customers and the resources that they want to access equally.  This means, no content blocking, monitoring, and fundamentally no commercial favouritism - […]

I spent some time last night making some cards for the LugRadio Key Signing event. I’ve used pgp for a while (since 2001 - I am now on my second key) and have not worked on building up the number of signatures I had on my first key.
I understand that PGP works best with […]