Number 10 Petition for HMG to support the fight against E-Crime
The taxpayer is by far the biggest victim of E-Crime: both directly and indirectly: from £150 million looted from the Individual Learning Accounts to a £billion or so from automated VAT and Benefit fraud to the computer-managed mortgage fraud that helped bring down the...
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Who Should Police the Internet?
Today is the first day of Infosec. In my article in the Guardian supplement, I refer to comparisons of the Internet with Railways and the Wild West. The first police force in England was created by the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company to...
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Information Security Industry or e-Protection Racket?
What other industry would collectively spend over £3 billion a year on protection and less than £30 million a year on tracking, tracing and removing the predators who are milking them? Come to 0 Comments
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Death by Data Protection: those lethally secure databases
More patients die because their medical record was wrong than because it was not available. More suffering and injustice are caused because police, justice and care records are not fit for purpose than because they are insecure. There is a very old rule of thumb that about 10% of records...
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A Rapid Payback Budget
Industry is now focussed almost entirely on "stopping the bleeding" with forward thinkers looking at what can be done on positive cash flow. Hence my suggested three point plan:
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Copyright Wars and the future of Digital Britain
Last week saw the Digital Britain Summit and the conviction of Pirate Bay The stakes could not be higher. The UK comes bottom of the 16 nations looked at by Consumers...
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UK recession wipes out business case for Offshoring – and more
The April 2009 quarterly survey from Salary Services Limited (SSL) indicates that recruitment advertising has more than halved over the past year. Last...
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Why we need a Rights Agency for the Digital Age
Andrew Yeomans, who occasionally posts comments to this blog, sent me some very thoughtful comments in response to my entry on...
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How does Guido Fawkes acquire his e-mails?
Leaving aside the issues of concern to the Westminster Village", for which Guido Fawkes is one of the prime on-line gossips, there is an overdue need for more realistic and informed debate on whether the...
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Why were we wrong? Lessons from 1980 predictions for 2000
We all like a good laugh at past predictions of the future. I have just been given a copy of "Twenty Years On: Life with Micro-electronics in the Year 2000 - text of an article to appear in the September 1980 edition of Video-world: the magazine of electronic...
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