I recently wrote a series on the often overlooked cyber security tool encryption. Encryption – A Primer | Smart Thinking Solutions But you have to be able to rely on your encryption and you need the vendor to fix issues quickly as another word for encryption with out a working …
In Support of Encryption
The idea for this article on encryption came to me whilst reading Joe Haldeman’s The Hemingway Hoax (see the disclaimer at the end of this article) – written in 1990 it was slightly ahead of the computer revolution. In the book, three people are involved in a fraud to produce …
Who are you texting with?
This may seem to be a strange question but how can you be sure who is actually texting you? Your phone may show you that you are texting with your friend or company IT support but there are ways for hackers to spoof who they appear to be or even …
Here is a privacy story for the weekend…
I often post things at the weekend, that are a bit outside the regular Smart Thinking articles, are possibly a longer read, but they give usually give context to our cyber security and privacy stories. here is one of the increasing use of facial recognition by the authorities in the …
The UK’s Online Safety Bill is now Law
The Conservative Government’s Online Safety Bill is now law. Online Safety Bill: divisive internet rules become law – BBC Do you have an opinion on it? I do. Let’s see if Big Tech does leave the UK in protest to being asked to compromise our privacy or will they follow …
Just as the Online Safety Bill becomes law – who is going to be safe?
Benjamin Dowling, a lecturer of Cybersecurity at the University of Sheffield has an article on The Conversation looking at the UK Online Safety Bill and who it will protect and who it will harm. The UK just passed an online safety law that could make people less safe (theconversation.com) I …
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The UK’s Online Safety Bill and Big Tech, you and me…
Before we start i have written a lot about the Government’s Online Safety Bill – I think some of the bill will address serious issue of bad online activity and disagree that the weakening of end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) for everyone, to enable law enforcement to catch criminals and particularly child abusers …
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