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Ofcom to consider customer termination...
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Nasa and the virus
Yesterday the BBC ran a story about a computer virus making it into orbit, which I read with incredulity. OK, it's a nice silly season story on the surface, but what really got me was that NASA...
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The recent news about customer details being retrieved from a server sold on eBay is yet another story about the sorry state of information security in the electronic age (see:...
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In spam terms, apparently it does. According to Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, if your email address is aardvark at animal.net, you are more likely to receive spam than if...
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While full medical records may be of (dubious) value at rear/base medical facilities, these could be provided much simpler by either physical disk or electronic transfer to an "in theatre" database for individuals posted in. That £80m (and it's associated running costs) could have been far better employed in resuscitating a disbanded infantry battalion or providing a big boost in equipment quality and quantity.
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