When IT Meets Politics
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Correction: The Bletchley Crypto and Sigint operations were only 73% female
- Winsafe Ltd 27 Mar 2014 -
Google shows the NSA how to make surveillance socially acceptable - with a £30 TV Dongle
- Winsafe Ltd 24 Mar 2014 -
The internationalisation of the internet begins today
- Winsafe Ltd 24 Mar 2014
Hence my comment that Information Security is an unsuitable job for a man and my strong support for plans to organise trips for schoolgirls to visit Bletchley and start preparing for the jobs of ...
The hardest has been that for the study on how to balance privacy, security, consumer choice and a seamless Internet with the aspirations of suppliers to have global control over data on their ...
The global Internet community now has an opportunity to further strengthen the multistakeholder model. We can ensure the continued evolution of the IANA functions and security of the Internet. And, ...
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Have you sold your on-line soul for a mess of potage?
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Mar 2014 -
The Broadband Blue Tape Gambit: guest blog from Hamish Glenlivet
- Winsafe Ltd 10 Mar 2014 -
Agile is not enough, neither is "systems integration" - we need a new approach to Digital Government
- Winsafe Ltd 08 Mar 2014 -
What is the difference between John Wicks (expenses database) and Edward Snowden?
- Winsafe Ltd 08 Mar 2014 -
The social contract behind internet is broken and there is a conspiracy of silence
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Mar 2014 -
Is the great broadband logjam about to break? If so, who will be swept away?
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Mar 2014 -
How rural is Shoreditch, our supposed technopolis?
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Mar 2014
It is not just smart TVs that require you to agree to global surveillance by you technology or service provider and those to whom they decide to provide information. Do you care? What are you going ...
Begin with a Ten Minute Rule Bill which states that only the first 2,000 words of any Statutory Regulation or any Public Sector Terms & Conditions or Contract should apply to organisations with ...
Neither of the current approaches to Digital Government bridges the fundamental design discontinuity illustrated above. As a result, today's approaches can never be as effective, efficient or ...
we need to take a cool look at the developing roles of BDUK and Ofcom and their crablike progress towards the creation of a Fabian (alias Orwellian) world of "co-ordination", planning and ...
The way in which the Internet operates is based on an implied social contract between 1,400 engineers and 2 billion users. That "contract" has not been updated in over a decade. It is now broken. ...
In US local government politics it is common for candidates to use their broadband plans for the community to win the support of those concerned about local jobs and property values. We may be ...
I suspect we are about to see current broadband roll-out plans overtaken by a perfect storm, as market forces compensate for regulatory failure in the wake of an economic crisis triggered by events ...
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How relevant and practical are awareness programmes designed for a PC world to the mobile world?
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Feb 2014 -
What price net neutrality in a non-competitive broadband market
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Feb 2014 -
Entire NHS Hospital Episodes database already sold to insurance company
- Winsafe Ltd 24 Feb 2014 -
How do we ensure that public online services are fit for a democratic society?
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2014 -
The fight against Surveillance Society claims its first victory - against NHS not NSA
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Feb 2014
Where does John's advice to his friend appear on any of the mainstream "security awareness programmes"? Who do you trust to give similar advice to your local silver surfers club and, more ...
The time has come for thorough review of the role of Ofcom as a competition regulator if we really do want open, competitive access to the on-line world and of the role of BDUK if we want that ...
At this point I should, however, add that I personally would have much more faith in the security of an exercise done by a phamarceutical or insurance company in co-operation with Experian than one ...
I wondered how many "Digital Leaders" would agree with all of the above principles and recommendations but put them into practice, partiucarly with to regard to ensuring that their data is not ...
Perhaps our most valuable ally is, however, market forces. The "pay-per-click" advertising bubble looks set to burst under the weight of fraud and we know that consumers who actively exercise ...