“Britons more exposed to internet harms than ever before” The Internet Society has joined the growing number of respected and well informed organisations that are condemning the UK Government’s proposal for an Online Safety Bill. UK Online Safety Bill Set to Weaken Encryption and Put UK Internet Users At Risk …
Abuse of privilege – French surgeon charged
A member of the medical team who gave care to survivors of the Bataclan attack has been caught selling x-rays of a survivor as a Non-fungible token (NFT). Bataclan survivor finds NFT of her X-ray for sale online – BBC News This is a really distressing case of a surgeon’s …
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E2EE – a new acronym for you – is it good or bad? Or why privacy is difficult.
Speaking purely with my cybersecurity hat on – end to end encryption (E2EE) is a very good thing, even an essential thing to preserve your and my privacy. It is a communications link method where only the parties at either end, for whom the communication was intended, can read and …
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A little light holiday reading!
I am on leave/writing retreat at the moment and one of the things I like to do when away is read. Bruce Schneier’s blog put me on to this very interesting work. Bounty Everything by Ryan Ellis & Yuan Stevens – (datasociety.net) “Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug …
AI is the future and we cannot avoid the consequences – but what are we going to do about it?
The final part of Stuart Russell’s Living With Artificial Intelligence series is out: The Reith Lectures – Stuart Russell – Living With Artificial Intelligence – AI: A Future for Humans – BBC Sounds I have really enjoyed these radio programmes – I hope you have as well. Here is something …
