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When IT Meets Politics
Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.
April 2009
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Number 10 Petition for HMG to support the fight against E-Crime
- Winsafe Ltd 30 Apr 2009 -
Who Should Police the Internet?
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Apr 2009 -
Information Security Industry or e-Protection Racket?
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Apr 2009
If the Treasury is looking for rapid payback investments, they do not come much better then cutting the duplication of effort across its fragmented security operations and organising ...
Today the Chinese devote far more effort to policing the Internet than any other nation while the self-tasking groups of the US NCFTA (National Cyberforensics and Training Alliance) are probably ...
That action is being driven by Boards asking whether they are getting value from paying £3 billion a year protection money and £30 million on policing - or whether they should be changing the ...
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Death by Data Protection: those lethally secure databases
- Winsafe Ltd 22 Apr 2009 -
A Rapid Payback Budget
- Winsafe Ltd 21 Apr 2009 -
Copyright Wars and the future of Digital Britain
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Apr 2009 -
UK recession wipes out business case for Offshoring - and more
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Apr 2009 -
Why we need a Rights Agency for the Digital Age
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Apr 2009 -
How does Guido Fawkes acquire his e-mails?
- Winsafe Ltd 12 Apr 2009 -
Why were we wrong? Lessons from 1980 predictions for 2000
- Winsafe Ltd 07 Apr 2009
data has to be regularly used and validated if it is to remain fit for purposes. Otherwise it can become out-of-date and useless, like the fingerprints of a bricklayer, the address of an itinerant ...
Personal spend on retraining, including by independent contractors, to be fully offset against tax and trainees following professional accredited programmes to be wholly or partially exempted from ...
A picture comes to my mind when reading the report, of a new King Canute (the Rights Agency) commanding the waves of internet distribution and file sharing to turn back; when it would be much ...
The survivors will have little choice but to focus on rebuilding their own skills base, focussing on in-house integration and self-sufficiency, using low risk, mature, commodity ICT products and ...
Finding a acceptable digital sampling methods would still be a challenge. P2P monitoring is contentious and can be spoofed. He wondered if a voluntary scheme such as the TV viewing stats would work.
Should you be similarly concerned about those who might pass your e-mails and web searches to who-over is willing to pay? And is a cheap or even "free" service worth the price?
"Free" standards expedited change in a way I never expected. Even so, voice over IP and Skype video-conferencing are still well short of the switchable, editable videophone that I have expected to ...
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Which is the biggest threat: Nosey Parker or Big Sister?
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Apr 2009 -
Are you a bigger threat to privacy than Government or Facebook?
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Apr 2009
Whatever your answers to those questions the on-line world and the "real" world are rapidly converging and action on the recommendations of the final report of the EURIM-ippr Partnership Policing ...
One of EURIM's former directors used to say that he would never send anything across over the Internet, regardless of the cla\imed security, that he was not willing to shout across a crowded room ...