TikTok is a Chinese company and concerns over the influence and access the Chinese government has to the information held by Chinese companies has led to official requests for the Prime Minister to ban the use of TikTok within government. Rishi Sunak faces calls to ban TikTok use by government …
Artificial Intelligence the debate
With the capabilities of ChatGPT being in the main stream news recently here’s an essay by Bruce Schneier looking at some of the issues. Grab a coffee and have a read. Defending against AI Lobbyists – Schneier on Security Unfortunately the other essay referenced is behind The New York Times …
Bruce Schneier on AI and Hacking
The very capable ChatGPT AI has been in the news recently for writing human quality code, essays, novels and even academic papers. Whilst it was free it was even used for hacking – of course – and it may still be used for malicious purposes even though it is now …
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 …