I have been away on leave for the last two weeks – well actually more of a chance to research and write in some nice places, rather than the office. But I did get some walking in: Get to the point… I have had trouble with the washing machines in …
Because It’s Friday – NASA 2022
It is still early enough in the year to post retrospectives of 2022. Here is one by Chris Impey, (University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona) in The Conversation about the missions NASA ran in 2022: NASA’s busiest year in decades – an astronomer sums up the dizzying array …
Because It’s Friday – Loud rockets
I was planning to write about the Virgin Orbit launch, from Cornwall, of an air launched rocket putting satellites into orbit. However although the separation and power up from the 747 jet was successful the rocket had issues and the payloads did not make orbit. There is a good video …
Because It’s Friday – Just another CAPTCHA
This is a follow-up to Bruce Schneier’s earlier post – Bruce Schneier on CAPTCHA. Just a bit harder: As Long as We’re on the Subject of CAPTCHAs – Schneier on Security Because it is 2023 Lets look aback at 2022… Here are two of my favourite “look back” articles and …
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Breaking encryption
Encryption is a fundamental element of our security and privacy online. Without it you could not shop online using your credit card or have a private conversation. Encryption is is encoding of your information using computational methods – the more complicated the computations the more secure the encryption is. But …