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Alec is an independent technologist, writer & security consultant who has worked in cryptography and host & network security for nearly 40 years, with 25 of those in industry, holding senio…

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Blog 17 days ago
France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s Reuters
Wow, France: France's Constitutional Council found that the ?bill, while requiring everyone to give proof of age, failed "to specify the conditions and limits" under which it should be provided, as well as infringing on freedoms and privacy. https://www.r
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Blog 22 days ago
#RUSI / Royal United Services Institute makes batshit proposal to socially engineer "nationalism" in Britain to foster "total defence" / army signups
If you're a Pratchett (or: Mary Shelley) reader you'll know the most dangerous people are those clever enough to uncork some tremendous power - a monster, dragon, civic unrest - yet hubristic enough to believe they can also control that power; thus comes
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Blog 26 days ago
Eventually @andyburnham @10DowningStreet must choose whether he wants British children online to be "safe" or "educated", 'coz we can't have "both"
This, attached below, is an inevitability. The UK Government strove for years to foster "tech" capability in British childen, and - although the "safety" community will push this as a "platform" responsibility - either we're going to have to leave the kid
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Blog 30 days ago
Remember, Kids: Cyberaugmentation is only for the less-abled!
The only people who should be allowed to buy Meta AI Glasses are visually impaired or blind; Facial Recognition & Live AI scene analysis is only moral if it would help you because you can't see. Such devices should only be sold to people with registered d
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Blog 2 months ago
RE: 1 BILLION
It is interesting from a sociological perspective that some people will go to great lengths to explain how big 1+ billion is in the context of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg having too much money, yet will consider similar numbers to be trivial in the matte
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