by Alex W. | Sep 19, 2016 | Cybersecurity, Quirky
Poodle Vulnerability Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) The poodle vulnerability has been around as an exploit since 2014.It led to an attack which led to completely disabling SSL 3.0 on the client and server-side to prevent hackers from making...
by Alex W. | Jul 19, 2013 | Crime, Fraud, Government large and small, Individual and Personal Resilience, Organisations, Quirky
A culture of entitlement is corrosive in a government agency or any organisation I’ve just come across a USA government document which is both fun to read and educational. Its called the Encyclopedia of ethical failure 2013, its published by the US Defense...
by Alex W. | Apr 30, 2013 | Community and Society, Identity, Quirky
Is Privacy overrated, or should we just think about it in a more balanced way? Richard Posner (US Judge) in an opinion piece in the NY Times has responded to NY Mayor Bloomberg’s view that there should be a more welcoming attitude towards surveillance cameras....
by Alex W. | Sep 4, 2012 | Biometrics, Cybersecurity, Identity, Individual and Personal Resilience, Quirky
A legislative approach that defines as ‘sensitive’ any biometric measurement shows a lack of common sense and understanding of the science. A better approach would be to protect those aspects of sensitive personal information (eg sexuality, political...
by Alex W. | Aug 22, 2012 | Community and Society, Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Quirky
I’ve been thinking for the best part of the last decade about Internet governance and its impact on national security. In that time, little has changed to improve security for users. The Internet as we know it today can be compared in many ways to the high seas...
by Alex W. | Jul 10, 2012 | Community and Society, Government large and small, management and leadership, Organisations, Quirky
The quote above has been often misattributed to Charles Darwin. But according to the Darwin project, it is actually a quote from Leon Megginson* in the 1960s paraphrasing Darwin in a management journal. Now that I have done my bit to put that meme to bed, it is worth...
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