Farewell 2020 Edinburgh Drone Display
The Edinburgh Hogmanay 2020 videos were taken near the remote area of Spean Bridge and others capturing Edinburgh’s skyline. Show drones take off and forming various shapes, including a luminous stag seen flying across the sky. The software used to choreograph the drone movements in the sky to form the Continue Reading
Don’t Blame Social Media?
What happens when you mix Law with Social Media? This two part documentary shown in the UK on C4 Real Lives, and on Channel 5 from Hey Buddy Films. Here is a compendium of misjudgement and poorly thought out decisions that brought attention and often public humiliation. Many people break Continue Reading
Tutte and Flowers – Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes
It all started with the German Lorenz machine – Hitler’s state of the art encrpyting communications machine – Enigma had been broken in 1941, but this time his new machine was almost un-decypherable The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army Continue Reading
Spying on the Scammers
Tonight’s Panorama looked at the fast-growing ‘scam’ call centres that offer employment to previously legitimate call centre employees turning to the allure of high earning computer-scamming criminal operation setting up across cities India – in particular New Delhi. A professional Scam baiter Jim Browning (his alias on Youtube) had managed Continue Reading
Scrap Digital Tax, or no Free Trade Deal
The US will not negotiate a free trade deal with the UK unless a new digital services tax is dropped, according to a newspaper report – Source: Sky News The measure, which was proposed in 2018 by then chancellor Philip Hammond in response to fears that technology giants were not Continue Reading
What now for GDS? Announcing Sprint 2018
Photo: GDS; Article Source: CWS (Civil Service World) The digital transformation of government is critical to the successful delivery of public services. As the world’s number one digital government, the UK leads the way in this. The Sprint 18 event – which is coming up on 10 May – Continue Reading
Eternal Blue was a NSA tool
Source: BBC News Dave Lee, North America technology reporter The huge cyber-attack affecting organisations around the world, including some UK hospitals, can be traced back to the US National Security Agency (NSA) – raising questions over the US government’s decision to keep such flaws a secret. Elements of the malicious software used Continue Reading
Germany angered at NSA and GCHQ Intrusions
An intelligence-sharing dispute between Britain and Germany, which was sparked by revelations about Anglo-American espionage against Berlin, is turning into a “burgeoning crisis”, according to German media reports. Relations between Germany and the United Kingdom worsened in September, after the revelation of TREASURE MAP, a top-secret program led by the Continue Reading