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When IT Meets Politics
Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.
June 2013
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How vulnerable is your broadband? Why BT and Virgin should be referred to Competition Commission
- Winsafe Ltd 30 Jun 2013 -
Comment from "Jim Prideaux" on my last blog
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Jun 2013 -
The winning theory: Snowden was employed by the NSA, FSB, GCHQ and Unit 61938 to protect budgets
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Jun 2013
But that raises the question of what Ofcom was created to do, whether those are still its objectives and whether they are still the right objectives. Having helped organise the scrutiny process for ...
The security services need a mix of talent and the processes to nurture them and actively maintain their motivation over time. So your reviewers should also raise their glasses to disgruntled older ...
Hence also the importance of the Cyber Security Skills framework for which e-Skills is currently seeking employers who will review it with a view to customising it for their own use. In fact, if we ...
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How do we rebuild boardroom confidence in on-line security after the PRISM controversy?
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Jun 2013 -
Will Brazil see the first democracy toppled by a "Social Media" revolution?
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Jun 2013 -
Do the voters care about PRISM? You Gov Poll - Carry on Spying
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Jun 2013 -
PRISM Conspiracy Competition entry 4: would Snowden be safer in Ireland or Cuba?
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Jun 2013 -
Another PRISM conspiracy theory: publicity is to help taxpaying UK ISPs against US tax avoiders
- Winsafe Ltd 21 Jun 2013 -
The Entries for my conspiracy theory competition are beginning to come in
- Winsafe Ltd 20 Jun 2013 -
A bottle of Ledaig for the best conspiracy theory related to the non-story that is PRISM
- Winsafe Ltd 20 Jun 2013
This should be good news for heads of Risk and of Information Security but most are too bogged down with data protection, breach notification and ISO 27000 to make use of the unique window of ...
The PRISM approach means that the analyses will be available in time to be used by the secret police of the new revolutionary government after the period of anarchy is over.
tTe proportion thinking that it is not only normal but that they would be disappointed if we British did not spy on others at international conferences, outweighs the don't knowns and "would rather ...
The requirement under the ETSI Lawful Intercept Standards to be able "to hide the existence of other simultaneous wiretaps from each intercepting agency." was to handle situations where independent ...
Thus the theory that objective of the PRISM publicity is to boost the UK's position as a location for globally trusted, tax paying, cloud services. Now all we need is the investment in reliable ...
The third theory may have been blown sly high by Alistair Graham's splendid rebuttal this morning of attempts to use Data Protection to prevent regulators and civil servants involved with the Care ...
Or is it related to the budget spats between the NSA and the FBI (and their UK equivalents), with the former relishing in publicity that implies it is doing more than it is to help secure the ...
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Is the EU Network and Information Security Directive a bigger threat than Al Qaeda?
- Winsafe Ltd 17 Jun 2013 -
What's in a name ... ? Why does DCMS wish to redefine the creative industries?
- Winsafe Ltd 17 Jun 2013 -
What questions will the NAO report on BDUK seek to answer ?
- Winsafe Ltd 17 Jun 2013 -
Public choose security over privacy: but will the Communications Bill help?
- Winsafe Ltd 15 Jun 2013 -
Only 4 out of 11 former Home Secretaries publicly support the Communications Bill
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Jun 2013
The focus should be on making it much easier to report attacks to those who will take action against predators and those who have aided and abetted them, not to regulators who will merely penalise ...
It would be unlikely to benefit from a merger with e-Skills unless the resultant body were to receive significantly more funding on a permanent basis so that it was no longer dependent on drip ...
The charges to DCMS from well-known consultancies and law firms for staff with experience of neither telecoms nor local government procurement, compared to those to local authorities with ...
If so, we need to begin by making better use of the budgets and resources available to exploit existing sources of information and make it easier for telcos and ISPs, not just BT, to provide ...
Hence the also the reason why the blog entry quoted on the Today Programme concluded on the need for genuine partnership and a Communications BIll that really does address the obstacles to that ...