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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment G is for Government IT Written in a coffee shop in Mountain View CA and dispatched the next day from a free wi-fi service in the hotel. What could be easier? Take that old paper passport and add some electronics to turn it into a super-secure means... [21 Aug 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment And with many government and financial services increasingly being delivered online it's serious stuff people are being excluded from - not just throwing sheep at friends on Facebook or watching videos of Mentos and exploding Coke bottles on YouTube. [23 May 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment What we need, other than the exercise of common sense, is to adopt a more universal view of the dangers of unrestricted personal information flow than simply have government warn us all to use paper shredders and regularly check our credit ratings. [08 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment The world has moved on in terms of how innovative projects that use technology are delivered, so must the NHS and the government. Because of the government 'Degrees for All' policy, even the dumbest, most unpromising students get rubbish degrees... [20 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Most recently it was the news that government departments had lost more than 1,000 laptops over the past 10 years. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably... [10 Mar 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty handbrake u-turn as the wheels started to come off and it... [07 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment That growing influence of serious and organised crime in cyberspace is the focus of representatives from business, finance, government and law enforcement agencies at next week's sixth international e-Crime Congress in London. [27 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday
Comment His message: move along commissioner, government intervention is not welcome. Long tails. I arrive at the Fira early to struggle through the be-suited throng and get my seat at the big name keynotes. Not early enough, however, to claim a space on... [13 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment I have to work for the tax money the government wrestles off me. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [07 Feb 2008]
What price compliance?
Comment Companies are wilting under the weight of increasingly onerous government and industry-specific regulations. But does compliance just add cost? Quocirca's Fran Howarth argues that rules and laws can provide companies with a business advantage if... [07 Jan 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment A key problem within the public sector is that of awareness - the government admitted that civil servants ignored, or possibly didn't know, their own security policies and procedures in copying database information to disk and sending it... [21 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?
Comment No-one trusts the government to manage a huge database.there will be leaks and errors and it's a huge target for identity thieves. The government has had years to provide a convincing argument for these, and their ability to properly handle the data. [13 Dec 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment The loss of the data has led some to call for the scrapping of the ID card project too and reinforced a sense government technology projects will always end in failure. The argument goes something like this: imagine what catastrophes they would be... [21 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 and the public sector
Comment In particular, the emphasis on participation in web 2.0 has important consequences for government. The move towards citizen-centric government takes on a new meaning when we have the facility for large-scale feedback and dialogue on government... [11 Oct 2007]
Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing
Leader And HMRC also added another - and probably most significant - ingredient: disclosure.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and improve the... [09 Oct 2007]
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