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What do they have in common? Recently border officials have began a dubious practice of collecting mobile phones, PDA's, memory sticks, and even whole laptops and copying the information for 'security reasons'. No actual terrorists appear to have been uncovered yet, but I'm sure a lot of proprietary, sensitive and valuable information has been expo...
19 April 2008 /security /regulation
I've not had my daily dose of Dilbert today. It seems the site has been redesigned and gone all "web 2.0". This alone can be the kiss of death - but in this case it's even worse as it doesn't work at all on Firefox, whereas IE6 reports this exciting snippet: Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required site.inc/publ...
18 April 2008
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 phone - why don't we use it to let the kids prove they are kids on their chat sites? It might go some way to keeping the perverts out. There is no ab...
18 April 2008 /security
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 recently and need to be fined to teach you properly. Sort of charging a fee to stop and educate you. NOT your name, date of birth, home address, ... ...
17 April 2008 /security /payments
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 45 per cent of women were quite happy to give strangers (market researchers) their email password in return for a chocolate bar. The figures for men w...
16 April 2008 /security
Regulators are under pressure after reports at least 25% of executives have traded prior to announcements being made public, empowered with prior knowledge. Directors may be investigated over trading between the close of books and the earnings announcements and ahead of other major announcements. Mere observation suggests that there must be some r...
16 April 2008
A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a one in 50 chance that the Apophis asteroid ...
16 April 2008 /regulation
The Brockenspiel is a musical instrument that reads the information on a swipe card and converts it into heavenly music. So yes - your humble credit card can be a source of musical delight and joy. And it'll take your mind off wondering how it was apparently used to buy a big screen telly in Croydon Dixons when you know it's never left your vicini...
15 April 2008
UBS have created a musical game for the Nintendo Wii title. The game allows the console's controller - the Wii Remote or Wiimote - to be waved around and used as a conductor's baton. UBS recorded the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland (who they sponsor) and then devised software that speeds up or slows down the music according to the Remote...
As part of the 'War on Terror' Australian bosses will soon be able to legally read their employees email. Do we really have to? I can see some executive wage pressures. This is apparently neccesary to spot terrorist risks, according to the government. I can see a training opportunity here - someone will have to teach the executives how to read, in ...
14 April 2008 /security /regulation
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