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I don't intend to debate the censorship laws or drinking ages, but it is absolutely neccesary to enable children to prove they are childen, and young adults to prove they are of age. Enter the mobile ...
If you can take horror movies, you may like to view this stomach churningly awful video. Apparently it was made to help Microsoft folk not take themselves so seriously all the time. Would it help th...
Talking of Microsoft - it seems they're currently enhancing Vista security by disabling mice and keyboards. Accidentally. Oops. Do take care Chris! I digress. One criticism I have of the current c...
When you fail to indicate and get pulled over by a Police Officer, what do they want to know? whether you are a licensed driver if you are 'wanted' whether you were warned about not indicating r...
Any new rival to Visa and Mastercard should seriously consider ditching the card concept altogether and utilising customer's mobile phones. A solution which didn't require the current EFTPOS system mi...
Futures trading has entered the investing mainstream thanks to a long list of innovative, low-cost online brokers. What has for some time been the province of large institutions is now accessible to t...
Thought I was having deja vu again, but it turns out they ran this survey last year too. Infosecurity Europe polled office workers outside Liverpool Street Station here in swinging London and found 4...
Last October I presented at a meeting in London during RSA Security Europe. I was asked to come up with predictions for 2008 online financial threats. My first prediction was that Phishing will more t...
How would you like to be invisible? From The Invisible Man through Lords of the Rings to Harry Potter, the concept of not being seen fascinated people. Invisible security, on the other hand, is a bit...
Have you seen www.urelife.com? I thought this was a Nathan Barley-style spoof at first. Surely a web site can't be this bad? Not even BBC3 looks this 'yoof'. What crack team of marketing geniuses t...
A great idea to have the proof of age card. At least you won't be able to use someone else's will you? I do think it's an good attempt at improvement, but it's a bit too much for status sensitive youn...
It's pretty obvious really. The main reason is 'because we can'. Next comes 'because more people choose or aspire to carry one than other any item in history'. Mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous an...