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 …
Because It’s Friday – I know It’s Thursday!
We are closing the office for the holidays, later today – although we will be working from home if there are any big cyber security stories to report on or if a client has an issue – so you get the Because It’s Friday and weekend reads on Thursday. So …
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