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Recently I travelled to York on Grand Central Railway. I really like their train service because you pay the same fare whether you buy your ticket in advance, at the station, or on the train. I really dislike the terms and conditions for using their on-board wi-fi.
“Grand Central reserves the right to include the name, [...]

Back in 2008 the government announced that they were going to reform some of the ways the disabled parking / blue-badge scheme worked to reduce the amount of fraudulent use. When I heard this discussed on the radio, the government’s spokesman talked about providing £10 million towards a data sharing scheme to enable a council [...]

Bruce Schneier spoke on the subject of The Future of Privacy at the Open Rights Group on Friday. The ORG is the ‘UK equivalent’ of the EFF and I’m proud to be one of its founder members. I’ve heard Bruce speak a few times, most recently at WEIS 09, and I’ve always been impressed at [...]

There’s been a lot in the press for the past few days about the recent T-Mobile breach. Basically it appears that a number of staff at the mobile phone company have been selling customer data which included the customer’s name, their mobile number and when their contract expired. There hasn’t been a great deal of [...]

Yesterday I heard Andy Smith, the Chief Security Architect for the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) speak at the BCS Central London branch meeting about the security behind the new National Identity Register which supports the National Identity Card.
On one slide he highlighted what he considered the three biggest threats to Information Security:

Complacency
Apathy
Inattention (Andy called [...]