Whose bloatware is killing your on-line sales?
Internet marketeers appear to have only just discovered that half their audience "won't even wait three seconds" for a website to load. I was, however, more interested to learn that average response times are now...
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The battle for the heart of the Internet: advertisers versus users
The pledges in the Queen's Speech to use the proposed Digital Economy Bill to empower consumers and protect citizens (and their children) in the on-line world...
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Is Big Data leakage the new Asbestosis: uninsurable? If so ….
There is a growing gulf between those who think insurers should give discounts to those who follow "best information security practice" (whatever that is) and underwriters who have been burned by breaches at US retailers (for example) with supposedly "mature" approaches to security. "Cyber" is...
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Turning the Super Tanker: Francis Maude’s achievements to date – but its not over yet.
Francis Maude has announced that he is...
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2015: The Year of the Compliance-Created Cyber Confidence Collapse?
We are bombarded with messages to promote new security technologies when most organisations the lack skills to make effective use of existing products and services to protect themselves and their customers against fraud and abuse. Too many compete for supposedly competant and experienced experts,...
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Does Labour really plan to return to “delayed big bang” for government IT projects?
No wonder the cartel who brought us the NHS National Plan for IT, the re-creation of the BT communications monopoly, overpriced and inefficient PFIs and all those other massively expensive, wasteful and under-performing central government " 2 Comments
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Has President Obama just confirmed the status of the Internet as the US on-line Stasi State?
The actions announced by President Obama in response to the Snowden revelations have failed to put...
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“The Internet has been turned into a giant surveillance machine”
I have just received the latest ISOC newsletter with a link to the press release after the 88th meeting of the Internet Enginering Task...
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Never have so many charged so much to keep tabs on so few: what is the “real” cost of PRISM
I recently read a New York Times article on how the US drug enforcement surveillance database supposedly dwarfs that of the
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Have the “Turks” who destroyed DigiNotor also broken trust in the on-line world?
Like many others I am trying to make sense of what is currently happening in the on-line world with the rerouting of Domain Names and 0 Comments
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