The Guardian sums up the Camerloon proposals, personally I welcome the digital czar and his furry paws of security. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/cameron-ban-encryption-digital-britain-online-shopping-banking-messaging-terror

http://falkvinge.net/2015/01/14/hilarious-activists-turn-tables-on-political-surveillance-hawks-wiretaps-them-with-honeypot-open-wi-fi-at-security-conference/ The linked article shows just how trivial it is to use metadata to identify the entity associated with the connecting device and start to unpick further details of their life, work and the supposedly secure stuff they’re working on.

If the ‘good guys’ have a backdoor then so do the criminals If the ‘good guys’ can crack your encryption, so can the criminals Having weak encryption would not have stopped the Paris attacks as the security services had already stopped monitoring them. If you think “I don’t use encryption” then think again, when you…

Well that’s some epic work by the dev guys, beta 2 dropped late on Tuesday, and we’re four patches on from there.  I suspect the overtime bill is going to be impressive.  Anyway, I think it’s pretty pictures time.

*sigh* –[ – ]– “It’s worrying to see that so many think they’d struggle paying the mortgage should the base rate rise by as little as 2%. What’s also clear is that the understanding of how interest rates affect payments is incredibly low. Simply put, a rise in rates from 1% to 2% is a…