Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I am in Scotland this week, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Ayr, for work so my life contains a lot of motorway driving. That reminded me of this BBC archive video, from Blue Peter in 1965, of what motorways were like when they were first built. How many of you used to …
This video starts off a bit odd – “…by the time I actually met Michael, …I didn’t care what he looked like”. “It [email] could rival the use of the telephone [in corporate business] by 1995.” This is where it all started and not one mention of spam or malicious …
I must start with the headline today: The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs Into Secret Code | The War Zone (twz.com) The first thing I did was verify the publication date – 3 July 2022, not 1 April. Then I realised that this story was “on message” for …
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“Because It’s Friday”, something to ease you into the weekend, after a week of “bad” cyber security news. This week something quick from Randall Munroe. Scary Triangles – xkcd Have a good weekend – I am spending mine building IKEA furniture! Clive Photo by Adrien Olichon
I just had to use that quote. I came across this page from the BCS looking at computer adverts from the 1960s. 11 classic computing adverts from the 1960s | BCS My highlights were the IBM disk pack, the computer terminal we used at college had this style of storage …
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