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Making sense of the referendum

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We have looked in the shop window, and want to find out more about leaving the EU. We now need to explore how that might work, before making an Article 50 decision.

June 27, 2016 General, Life

Action Fraud: it might help if you used a valid security certificate

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You’d hope that the UK police online fraud reporting system would use a valid security certificate. But they don’t.

March 3, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

BT and the largest UK Internet failure?

With “hundreds of thousands” of customers left without Internet connections for several hours, BT’s massive outage is too unimportant for its own News site.

February 3, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Bricking up windows on privacy

Benefits to the loss of privacy proposed in the UK are ebbing away as Internet behaviours change, but this is not considered in its justification. Is it too late?

November 7, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

The draft Investigatory Powers Bill has a zero-day vulnerability

Already it looks straightforward to circumvent the surveillance proposed. And you can rest assured the Bad Guys will.

November 5, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

After RIPA, IPA: the UK’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill

After much, and often misdirected, speculation, this crucial draft Bill has been published. Is it so bad after all?

November 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Prepare for IPv6: it’s on its way in 2016

More than 6 million routers will need to be replaced in 2016 to prepare for switching to IPv6. Are you affected?

September 26, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

RIP MacWorld in print – the UK edition (corrected)

More sad news this morning: the UK print edition of MacWorld has ceased publication. The announcement makes it very […]

September 9, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Time and tide wait for no Mac

What a mess the UK has made of tidal prediction: two different agencies, each charging us for information that we paid for in our taxes.

July 16, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Good Lords! How UK government has ignored online crime

Perhaps this shocking litany of lame excuses and perpetual procrastination is reflection of a covert policy to take crime off the streets, and put it onto the Internet instead.

June 25, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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