Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The BBC Inside Science, radio show, went to their archives to look at science and technology over the last 70 years. BBC Inside Science – A Reign of Science – BBC Sounds I was also born in 1961, and it is interesting to listen to the bit about “…back then, …
I have written before about the security limitations of “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. Many of them are simple devices, possibly based on older tech, they tend to lack the hardware to allow for regular security updates, etc, etc etc. At least the UK Government is enacting laws to make …
In 1952 one of the first computer games was programmed and run on a computer the size of your house! Alexander Douglas was studying at Cambridge University for a PhD, when he wrote a simulation of Noughts and Crosses (known in other places as ‘Tic-Tac-Toe’), as part of his thesis …
Continue reading “Noughts and Crosses. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.”
There was a time, in TV and movie history, when if you needed to show a really powerful computer, then it needed lots of big cabinets with big spinning tapes – for example have a look at the image above from the 1964 film Dr Strangelove or the example below …
Continue reading “IBM 726 dual tape drive. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.”
The quote is from an article by Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security, outlining how Google sees it’s role in making it a more secure world. Building a secure world (blog.google) I always have a seed of doubt when I read anything like this from …
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