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Hangover cure: The Micro Men repeat - OTT but fun

By Philip Virgo on January 1, 2010 10:02 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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I thoroughly enjoyed the repeat of Micro Men on BBC4 and have just read some of the reviews and comments made when it first came out. I was annoyed by the OTT portrayal of Clive Sinclair, albeit the vignette of the Mensa groupies does not do justice to some of the drop-dead gorgeous redheads who clustered round him at the party he hosted that night. Perhaps the biggest "slander" is, however, the portrayal of their long-suffering bank manager. 
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Surgery for the rotten heart of the Internet?

By Philip Virgo on February 13, 2009 6:55 PM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks
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Today was the deadline for comment on the ICANN consultation  on the Initial Report on Fast Flux Hosting. This is the "technology" used by spammers, phishers, botnet herders, denial of service extortionists and cyberwarfare practioners around the world. It also has some, but not that many and decreasing, legitimate uses. ICANN meets in London next week to discuss what comes next.  
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Do Digital Diapers Deter Data Diarrhoea?

By Philip Virgo on November 1, 2008 7:08 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
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The shut down of the Government Gateway after an apparent compromise may influence your response to the NHS consultation on other uses of oatient data, on which I blogged on Friday. It should not. There is whole array of privacy enhancing technologies that can be used to prevent such failures. The problem is not hardware or software. "Its the wetware stupid".

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Data incontinence needs potty training not just e-nappies

By Philip Virgo on October 25, 2008 10:43 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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The Economist report on the Future of Information Governance puts debate on the power of information, data protection, surveillance and retention into business context but stops short. We have crossed a watershed.The electronic equivalent of nappies on every end-user system and rubber sheets under every bed of corporate servers may have been very lucrative for suppliers and consultants but is no longer sustainable     
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Recycling personal data as "aid" to Africa

By Philip Virgo on October 12, 2008 10:42 AM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
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The current turmoil will lead to redundant corporate workstations and laptops being sold cheap or donated for charitable purposes. Computer Aid cleanses systems to the highest standards, using routines certified by CESG. Others do not - thus providing a source of potential earnings that will more than make up for any drop in cash donations
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Who do you trust to rebuild confidence in the on-line world?

By Philip Virgo on July 15, 2008 10:00 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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The Data Sharing Review from Richard Thomas and Mark Walport brings a breath of fresh air to a feotid debate. Now comes the campaign to prevent the recommendations from being obfuscated and watered down by those who do well out of the current confusion as well as those making serious money from the acquisition, aggregation and resale of personal data without informed consent, let alone choice, on the part of the subject. . 
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How do we rebuild trust in the on-line world - not just Government?

By Philip Virgo on June 28, 2008 9:46 AM | 7 Comments | No TrackBacks
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The messages in the Cabinet Office, HMRC, IPCC and MoD reports and recommendations released on 25th June will keep security experts occupied years. But the responses to the recommendations of recent Parliamentary reports and its own Independent Reviewer, raise far wider questions.
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Another day, another laptop lost

By Philip Virgo on June 25, 2008 9:36 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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Recent repots of laptops lost by doctors stolen from hospitals appear to indicate that medical records on personal computers are less secure today than when the NCC Microsystems Centre tested six systems under contract from the DTI over 20 year years ago. Why? 
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Another day, another data loss: its the wetware stupid.

By Philip Virgo on June 16, 2008 10:21 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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This time its yet another paper file left on a train. Do read the report of the Home Affairs Select Committee in full. Then re-read it, remembering that the largest single death toll from a data leakage was when a Columbian Drug cartel analysed the billing records of the local telephone company to identify the location of the Drug Enforcement Agency Safe Houses from the calls from the US embassy. They then slaughtered everyone in them, including most of the DEA team.   
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Usable by ordinary human beings: the route to e-inclusion

By Philip Virgo on May 15, 2008 11:13 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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Most government on-line systems are inaccessible to most of those of those they are most intended to serve - was my personla summary of the of the introductory discussions at the EU workshop on Ethics and e-Inclusion that I attended on Monday. The consequences are not only unethical, they are indefensible by almost any measure other than technophilia.

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