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Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment The success of data encryption in preserving the confidentiality of information was demonstrated recently by the discovery of a confidential Home Office disc found hidden in a laptop sold via online auction site eBay. [27 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…
Comment Advertising in this manner as is done online is intrusive, interferes with what we are already trying to do, and is ultimately counterproductive. Seems a safe bet that it would be higher than the figures for either laptops or mobile phones. [21 Feb 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment That's what's enabled them to do things like become the biggest online retailer with the vehicle licensing service. Julian David, IBM's vice president public sector business, has been with the company 26 years, with previous roles seeing him... [05 Dec 2007]
Leader: Where was Northern Rock's technology?
Leader The bank's website has been brought to its knees by the weight of online customers trying to get out of Dodge. Surely the bank has a duty to provide online customers with access to their accounts and should have laid in emergency capacity to cope... [19 Sep 2007]
Leader: Too many still fear the net
Leader The answer clearly is better education - an aim of Get Safe Online, the government-sponsored body behind the research. This is bad news indeed for both the purveyors of those services and for e-government initiatives which aim to provide public... [09 Oct 2006]
Q&A: Jeremy Verba, CEO, Piczo
Comment Verba sat down with silicon.com to talk about Piczo's appeal, guaranteeing safety online and how enterprises can get in on social networking.silicon.com: Why are so many teenagers writing about their lives? [24 Aug 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The work/life balancing act
Comment However, this is not simply the personal phone call or email to friends for a chat or a bit of casual surfing but increasingly the need to conduct personal or domestic activities online or using the mobile phone, as retailers and domestic service... [19 Jan 2006]
Leader: Why we still applaud the idea of 'Get Safe Online'
Leader The problem we have here is that the 'Get Safe Online' initiative is a great idea. By putting the ball in their court, Get Safe Online could have injected more momentum into a trend which is already seeing ISPs accepting they will have to embrace... [27 Oct 2005]
Opinion: Online security school now in session
Comment Today marks the beginning of ID Fraud Awareness Week and it is also the week that will finally witness the launch of Get Safe Online, a Home Office-backed meeting of minds and money intended to tackle the now rampant problem of consumer and small... [24 Oct 2005]
Security education: Too little too late
Comment Now more than halfway through 2005, a public-private partnership aimed at reducing cyber crime, originally called Project Endurance, has reappeared as a safety campaign called Get Safe Online. Get Safe Online, then, is a last ditch effort to turn... [22 Aug 2005]
Election '05: Would e-voting have changed the outcome?
Comment This may have been due in part to it being a very safe Labour seat but with so many apathetic voters already online there is real scope to increase the turnout nationwide. And even where the influence of e-voting is not enough to sway the result... [09 May 2005]
Leader: Oh, hello... the police have woken up
Leader Part of this isn't aided by the fact the online world changes every second while the offline world of red-tape-riddled bureaucracy, law making and legislation moves at an almost sedentary pace. Last week one policeman woke up to a particularly... [16 Aug 2004]
Devil's Advocate: The problem with chip-and-PIN
Comment Of course, there are still the PINs for my mobile phone and some of the online services I use. To do that, I have long had to remember a PIN and to try to keep the card safe. The problem with this emerging technology, according to Martin Brampton? [15 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.03
Round-Up With 25 million people online in the UK, chat rooms are not simply going to go away. It is up to the big players such as MSN to offer safe, moderated environments. "If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody is around to hear it, does it still make a... [26 Sep 2003]
"It'll be alright, we'll buy some security next month..."
Comment Companies are being urged to make robust security their very first purchase before launching online. Any company launching with inadequate security, and putting off its full spend is kidding itself if it thinks it is safe from attack, yet many are... [22 Sep 2003]
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