Here is something new to think about: Meta brushes off risk of account theft via number recycling • The Register I must admit I had never thought about this type of leak in a cyber security plan. I am not sure how relevant this is in the UK, but it …
Because It’s Friday – Copying
The whole time I was writing for my Masters I was concerned that the “Plagiarism Police” would jump up and say I had copied. There was even a tool you could use – provided by the university – to check papers before you submitted them, which was of marginal help …
Because It’s Friday – Is it a space story?
I am going back to little green men this week with a story about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) – but now according to the US military we have to call them unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The article is written by Beatriz Villarroel an Assistant professor of Physics, Stockholm University, who has …
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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 …
Because It’s Friday – What is Portable?
This is a follow-up to an article Martin wrote about a computer he found whilst helping a client move offices. It is surprising what you can find in the back of cupboards. Whilst helping him find out more details about his portable computer I came across this video by The …
