If you share information online and are not extremely careful on what you share, then someone somewhere will work out how to exploit that information. Now I thought people who used Strava understood this as there has been plenty in the past of Strava compromising military security let alone personal …
Another democracy does not like E2EE
End-to-end-ecryption (E2EE) seems to be an issue with many democratic governments – they dislike their law abiding citizens having it unless they can have the keys to the security. If governments have the keys to your E2EE it will not be long before the criminals also have those keys! Now …
UK Web Surveillance Increases
Here is an interesting article to read over breakfast this Sunday. How the UK Government needs to intrude into your privacy. The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up | WIRED UK I am not comfortable with the argument that if you have not done anything wrong, then you …
AirTag stalking – could it be a thing of the past?
I have written about the privacy issues surrounding Apple AirTags and similar gadgets. They were originally made to enable careless people (like me) find our keys and other things that get misplaced. It did not take people long to realise they could also track people with them. This is a …
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UK Emergency Alert System is a good idea
Many countries have a national emergency alert system, delivered to their citizens via suitable mobile phones – now there is a UK Emergency Alert System. These systems can be operated by region and issue emergency alerts for serious weather events, earthquakes etc.. Although false alarms happen the rapid warning of …