Android phones can be crashed using simple wallpaper
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Google acts as judge, jury and executioner after it falsely accuses breach of its “guidelines”
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Brexit data blockage is a bigger threat to UK businesses than borders and tariffs combined
Read MoreEveryone knows a story or several about the salesman who told a whopper in order to clinch the sale. In my industry (IT) it is sadly still too common to find suppliers promising “features” in software that don’t yet exist – there’s even a name for such features … phantomware. But telling lies is not […]
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This article follows my original article that set out the essentially 19th century design and manufacturer of electric wheelchairs foisted on to disabled people by an industry motivated more by greed than desire to improve their products or the health and well-being of their customers. In that article I explained several problems with currently available […]
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ZDNet yesterday reported (https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-group-names-mozilla-internet-villain-for-supporting-dns-over-https/) that an industry group of UK-based ISPs (Internet Service Providers – the companies that make money selling you your broadband or other Internet connection) voted The Mozilla Foundation, developers of Firefox – one of the most private and secure web browsers available – this year’s “Internet Villain“ What? To the increasing […]
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If you use Windows 10 (why?) you will be familiar with the almost constant succession of disastrous updates and flaws Microsoft pushes out to all users of the operating system. One of the latest to be found is that Microsoft disabled Registry backups in Windows 10 some time around October last year. Apparently Microsoft disabled […]
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Yesterday I wrote a l-o-n-g post discussing how governments are trying to steal our fundamental right to privacy from us – the spurious arguments they are using and why they must not be allowed to get away with it. Today I want to talk about the other players in the anti-privacy game. There is a […]
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If you are one of “those people” who respond to any discussion around online personal data privacy concerns with the statement “Well, I don’t do anything wrong so why should I care if Big Brother is watching what I do?” this article is definitely for you. Even if you are becoming concerned after recent scandals […]
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Our right to privacy is a fundamental human right enshrined in law in every civilised country on the planet. Yte the governments of those same countries are claiming the right to open every private communication we make – email, text, phone call, video – all in the name of “fighting crime, terrorism, child sex abuse …”. Is this reasonable? Do they – should they have the right to act like this? What are the dangers that arise from them doing so?
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