The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable helps provide internet connections to more than a dozen countries, from India to Greece. When the cable was cut on June …
The cost of free speech or what happens when you spread “hate speech” across the media in the name of “free speech”.
The Infowars, shock jock, Alex Jones, broadcast and then repeated, hateful unsubstantiated lies, about the tragic events at Sandy Hook – now he will have to pay… a lot! The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect | WIRED UK Sandy Hook review: anatomy of an American tragedy – and the obscenity …
Here is the fallout for Indian privacy…
I have reported previously on India’s new laws that will weaken the privacy offered to users of VPN technology: The new laws require the VPN vendors to record identifiable information about the users, and then make that information available to organisations authorised by the government, so effectively removing privacy from …
Windows 11 automation tools open to abuse
Automating tasks on a computer used to be hard, but today it is very easy with a range of drag and drop tools available. Obviously the Power Automate included into Microsoft’s Windows 11 will be among the most popular – I know I use it. Now researchers at Zenity have …
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High School Prank – Are you still using default passwords?
It was a prank, but it was also serious hacking. The only thing that stopped it being a criminal case was that the school IT support had not reset default passwords and if they did they used the example password in the manual and that the hackers acted in a …
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