The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable helps provide internet connections to more than a dozen countries, from India to Greece. When the cable was cut on June …
We used to recommend iPhones…
The lack of repairability of Apple products – I no longer buy Airpods as they are expensive e-waste – was always an issue for us. This was outweighed by the reassurance offered by Apple with its “walled garden” app store and the security features built into the devices. Although neither …
26 words written in 1995 that shape the Internet
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as thepublisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. Jeff Kosseff. Cybersecurity Law Professor at the United StatesNaval Academy This means, that unlike a newspaper or magazine who would be legally responsible for what …
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Child protection
The government’s Online Safety Bill is an important piece of legislation. I have not changed my point of view on the removal of law abiding citizens privacy in the name of child protection – follow the link below to look at other stories I have written about that. I want …
Cold War spying is a long way from today’s cyber-espionage weapons but they both successfully stole information – #BeCyberSmart
This article comes via Bruce Schneier, and fits nicely into the Weekend Project – it is about security and has some connections to the posts we run here at Smart Thinking. Both Clive and I have attended Bruce Schneier speaking events, and through Clive’s links with Edinburgh Napier University have …
