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Lords questions gov't over web-data retention laws
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton said that the manner in which the government decides to implement the directive will have far-reaching effects on ISPs. Richard Clayton explained that, under the programme, the government would...
[July 1, 2008, 16:06]
Lord vows to fight cybercrime laws
News Dr Richard Clayton of Cambridge University told ZDNet UK last week that part (b), as currently laid out, would catch a wide range of IT tools and activities that are not meant to be used in hacking. Richard Clayton's comments [are] rhetorical and...
[May 25, 2006, 16:05]
Does it matter if you are an aardvark or a zebra?
Blog 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 your address is zebra at animal.net. It makes quite a big difference," Clayton told me.
[August 27, 2008, 16:47]
Wikipedia censorship 'easy to evade'
News The blocking mechanism used to censor Wikipedia has been described as "fragile" and "easy to evade" by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton. However, Clayton said there was "some confusion" as to which operators had blocked access...
[December 11, 2008, 16:39]
Phorm accused of making web browsing 'less stable'
News Dr Richard Clayton, a security expert from the University of Cambridge, published a paper earlier this month detailing Phorm's infrastructure. More technical details of how Phorm systems work can be found in a paper by Richard Clayton.
[April 17, 2008, 15:52]
Experts: 'British FBI' won't stop e-crime
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told ZDNet UK on Monday that while SOCA will be concerned with serious organised crime, local police forces will concentrate on local crime. Basically the effect of creating SOCA is that they are...
[April 3, 2006, 15:35]
Gov't spends over £18m on comms surveillance
News The figures were published on the UK Crypto mailing list by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton on Monday. Clayton wrote on the UK Crypto mailing list that the reason the average grant size had increased from just under £17,000 per...
[August 6, 2008, 17:50]
BT Phorm trial leak rekindles row
News The documents show BT customers were not made aware of the tests, and that their web traffic was being intercepted, according to Cambridge University computing expert Richard Clayton, who called for BT to be prosecuted.
[June 6, 2008, 18:01]
Security report sponsorship defended
News You would think they could afford to do it all by themselves," said Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton last week. But, as Clayton pointed out, such surveys aren't always as useful as the company's behind them claim.
[April 11, 2006, 13:55]
Security vendors: We would block police hacking
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told ZDNet UK on Monday that UK police were most likely to hack into computers by entering a premises and installing a keylogger on the target system.
[January 8, 2009, 16:12]
Government wants your view on encryption keys
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told ZDNet UK that any company that was concerned by Part III of RIPA would be "foolish to pass up the opportunity" of voicing their concerns. Although in theory the Government's mind is made up...
[June 8, 2006, 16:10]
Academic breaks the Great Firewall of China
News The machines in China allow data packets in and out, but send a burst of resets to shut connections if they spot particular keywords," explained Richard Clayton of the University of Cambridge computer laboratory.
[July 3, 2006, 13:00]
Government unveils UK citizen ID card
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton said while it was feasible that the cryptography on the card could be unbreakable, for the card to be completely secure, the entire system would need to be completely secure.
[July 30, 2009, 17:05]
GCHQ denies developing mass surveillance tech
News However, Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that GCHQ had been "very precise" about what it would not intercept. Clayton said that 'black boxes' used for deep packet inspection had already been placed on...
[May 5, 2009, 17:16]
European ID card data is not encrypted
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton said that access-control cryptography can, in general, be trusted to maintain data integrity. If I have a big antenna, I can capture the information from across the room," Clayton told ZDNet UK...
[February 6, 2009, 14:32]
UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts
News Dr Richard Clayton of Cambridge University believes that part (b), as currently laid out, would catch a wide range of IT tools and activities that are not meant to be used in hacking, but potentially could be.
[May 19, 2006, 14:15]
Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace
News According to Richard Clayton, a Cambridge University computer security expert, it has been legal for the police to hack into suspect systems without a warrant since 1995, when a 1994 amendment of the Computer Misuse Act was brought into force.
[January 5, 2009, 15:16]
Symantec: Security reporting chain is broken
News Despite Symantec's concerns, Cambridge University computer security expert Richard Clayton said a more pressing concern for businesses was making sure patches were managed correctly, and that users were educated about security issues.
[October 22, 2007, 15:08]
Critics attack 'dangerous' gov't comms-snooping plan
News University of Cambridge security expert Richard Clayton told ZDNet.co.uk that putting state-of-the-art surveillance devices into all UK ISPs would be "likely to cost quite a lot". Clayton agreed with Erroll that the proposals were "completely not...
[July 15, 2008, 17:30]
Cybercrime laws 'will harm security research'
News This will place serious constraints on the distribution of security tools, as the prosecution must only prove that the distributor believed it was likely that the tool will be used for hacking, even if this was not his intention, said Richard...
[November 17, 2006, 12:47]
