I realised whilst at work today that my credit card wasn’t in my wallet, after hoping against hope that it would be in yesterday’s trouser pocket when I got home I had to accept that it was lost. Far from the brightest thing I’ve done today, especially given the time of year. So I did […]
Category archives: Privacy
Online Bank Cards
The reaction most people have when you point out people are naive enough to post pictures of credit and debit cards online is to laugh, surely no one could be that unaware of the risks. But the fact is that the situation has become that common place that a number of Twitter accounts have been […]
Securely wiping a drive with dd
Cleaning the harddrive of any machine, be it desktop, laptop or server, before either repurposing or selling (or even scrapping), should be a basic requirement of any organisation. But there is a seemingly unrelenting stream of reported incident, some of which coming from organisations that really should know better, MI6 and military contractors for example. […]
Phorm e-Petition Response
Quick heads up to anyone following the Phorm/privacy debates: The government’s response to an e-petition to ask the government to stop ISP’s from breaching privacy laws has been released. The full response can be read here, it’s fairly short so I won’t go into too much detail, but I’m glad to see the government is […]
Glad I'm not a BT customer
Once again I’m glad I don’t do business with BT(with the exception of line rental). First Phorm: now thisBT has begun transforming its commercial customers’ Business Hubs into OpenZone hotspots for any passing Tom, Dick or Harry to share, and leaving businesses to figure out how to opt out of the scheme after the fact.…snip…“Free […]
Satellite Hacking
Just read an interesting article on El Reg about Adam Laurie, who has supposedly been ‘hacking’ satellite feeds. Unless I’m missing something it appears to be more a case of sniffing unencrypted communication coming from and going to satellites, but it is interesting in any case. One of the parts of the article I liked […]