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An interesting question concerning the trustworthiness of technology, or perhaps more accurately those who control it, was raised out of my last missive, ‘Is Trust The Strategic Asset Democracy is Neglecting?’ that got me thinking. To start with let me lay that thinking out so you get the context, I am postulating that the defining […]
December 6, 2025
Once upon a time (or so we tell ourselves), reporting a suspicious neighbour to His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) was pitched as some kind of civic virtue, help us catch tax dodgers, protect public coffers. On paper, a noble cause. In practice? The first step on a rickety road that leads straight into Orwell-land, […]
November 19, 2025
As the week began it would appear sensible questions are being asked about the obscene As the week began it would appear sensible questions are being asked about the obscene valuations Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks are attracting. Not to mention the economics of corporate debt being bet on single AI horses, like Oracles on OpenAI. […]
November 15, 2025
In theory, cybersecurity is a beautifully tidy universe where every participant behaves like a perfectly rational chess grandmaster. Attackers weigh cost versus reward. Organisations invest wisely to reduce risk. Users follow security policies because obviously security is important. In this world, everyone is a logical, well-intentioned adult, which is fanciful because none of this has […]
November 11, 2025
This week it was the turn of Cloudflare to have an outage enforcing a self-imposed denial of service on its customers that included OpenAI and Twitter. This follows AWS and Microsoft in recent weeks, events raising an increasingly urgent question – Do we now need a framework for Globally Systemically Important Technology Corporations, a G-SiTec […]
December 9, 2025
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