perils of online anonymity and accountability

Jekyll and Hyde had it easy

strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Profound Whatever on flickr

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde had it easy – they only had each other to worry about. I have so many alter egos now that I need a database to keep track of them all.

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open invitation

invitation2participate by micala on flickr

Too many wireless networks are implemented without even rudimentary security features being implemented. How do we know this? Continue reading article »

Is your precious data running wild?

Picture credit: n0r

Chief Executives should ask their CIOs a very important question: do you honestly know where our data is tonight? Continue reading article »

Mashups – tasty recipé or difficult to swallow?

The proliferation of “mashups” (software services created by combining disparate components into a new configuration) shows that they are becoming increasingly popular and have already entered the Enterprise domains. Some of these are not only useful but also fairly quick to develop and deploy. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. The facility of mashup development and deployment must Continue reading article »

Latest Government data fiasco

There has been more broughaha this week about the latest embarrassing loss of highly sensitive UK Government data  (prisoner and convicted persons data), which was blithely downloaded (unencrypted) to a USB memory stick by a PA contractor and then misplaced/ lost. 

Home Office Minister Tony McNulty was promptly trotted out to expiate departmental responsibility for this latest evidence of appalling Continue reading article »

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