If you trust someone with your passwords, their security needs to be very good – the popular online password bank LastPass has had some security problems recently and I have made my suggestions for an alternative way to store your passwords. Here is an opinion piece from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols …
Encryption is safe (for the moment)
You can carry on shopping online… At the beginning of the year I ran a short story on some Chinese research that said it had taken a step towards breaking the encryption we all depend on the use the internet and electronic communications securely: Breaking encryption – Smart Thinking Solutions …
AI – you knew I would post this – just look at the title…
What killer robots mean for the future of war (theconversation.com) …and there is the obligatory TLA – LAW Lethal Autonomous Weapon. The title may be sensationalist, but the content is interesting, well written and thought provoking – a look at the state of AI/robotic warfare. It also challenges you to …
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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 – A flying car video
Let’s finish the year on one of my favourite Because It’s Friday topics – flying cars. Here is a video from Adam Savage – of MythBusters fame – looking at a flying car that is very close to production and commercial use as an air taxi to feed regional airports …