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Alec Muffett
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Alec Muffett is a veteran security geek who believes strongly in common sense, full disclosure, defence in depth, privacy, integrity, simplicity and open source. He is an independent consultant, writer, and speaker specialising in security education.
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Learning about Cybersecurity from an Unnatural World
Radio 4 on Security: Bio, Cyber or otherwise...
by Alec Muffett
I was listening to the rerun of File On 4[1] this evening, and a chap from the FBI said something very sensible about Cybersecurity. Albeit the programme itself was nothing to do with cybersecurity and its tone was mildly hysterical...
February 13, 2012 12:00 AM Read Full Post
Digital Darwinism: Perspectives for Industry and Government
A term which will soon see greater use, but it would be nice for the nuances to be understood
by Alec Muffett
A few days ago I spoke on a panel at PICTFOR - the Parliamentary ICT Forum - some writeups of which have been posted elsewhere; but a few days prior in preparation myself and some friends had the opportunity to...
February 10, 2012 1:35 PM Read Full Post
The Google Dialogues: Search Neutrality
Transparency is great; backseat regulation in the name of fairness, not so much...
by Alec Muffett
Sometimes I feel that the primary differences between Socratic Dialogues and Strawman Arguments are that: a) the former are apparently respectable, but the latter are fallacious, and... b) everyone since 399BC is not Socrates I too am not Socrates -...
January 19, 2012 12:50 AM Read Full Post
Merry Christmas - it's another Twitter XSS bug!
Festive fodder for Cybersecuritypseuds
by Alec Muffett
Update: fixed now, less than 8 hours later. Isn't technology marvellous ? Recently Twitter bought TweetDeck, a provider of custom twitter-browsing clients which were popular amongst many Twitterati for dealing with bulk tweet-management. Twitter subsequently axed the main TweetDeck client,...
December 20, 2011 2:31 PM Read Full Post
NetApp, Sophos join list of tech being used by Syrian state snoopers
"Dual-use" technology: who is meant to be the bad guy?
by Alec Muffett
If you're in any part of the security industry you will know the phrase dual-use technology; it's the umbrella term for any technology that can be used for both "good" and "evil" from the perspective of whomever is speaking at...
November 4, 2011 12:02 PM Read Full Post
#LondonCyber: our very own Star Trek conference
Billions and billions... shields to maximum until it's all over
by Alec Muffett
So the FCO's London Conference on Cyberspace is here - and on Twitter - and you cannot have missed yesterday's press trailers: BBC Cyber attacks on the UK are at "disturbing" levels, according to the director of Britain's biggest intelligence...
November 1, 2011 1:39 AM Read Full Post
Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq
Passwords are hip again; but can we please just get past the "word" aspect?
by Alec Muffett
Google are (in partnership with Citizens Advice Bureau) running a campaign about how to stay safe online, and to this end adverts are appearing in London tube trains explaining how to create longer, more memorable passwords, using an example from...
October 21, 2011 2:28 PM Read Full Post
Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security
An Ex-Amazonian Googler's justifiable hostility towards Security
by Alec Muffett
A few days ago Steve Yegge posted a rant to his Google+ account with the intention that it would stay Google-internal. Oops. You can read the rant - now replicated all over the net, for instance YCombinator or mirrored back...
October 17, 2011 8:36 AM Read Full Post
Jeremy Hunt requests Google become "Big Brother" on behalf of the British Government
DCMS demands freebie Googlespying, else "legislation will ensue"
by Alec Muffett
Gadzooks! Here's the Telegraph article with my emphasis added: Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, is to tell Google and other search engines that they should play a greater role in the fight against online...
September 13, 2011 11:45 AM Read Full Post
Rare OSX 1Password flaw exposes plaintext passwords, password history
Bug rapidly caught and fixed, but users should check their logfiles for sensitive data
by Alec Muffett
Sunday afternoon I was writing a CWUK posting using my Snow Leopard Macbook Air - plus Chrome, Safari, all the other usual suspects, as well as 1Password, a password-keysafe product from AgileBits. It's not clear what happened next, but as...
September 6, 2011 3:10 PM Read Full Post
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