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When Facts Become Weapons in the new Cold war

September 16, 2025

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In today’s democracies, facts are no longer neutral. They have become weapons. A statistic pulled from context, a story exaggerated beyond proportion or a meme sharpened into a blade can now be deployed as artillery in political trench warfare. The battlefield is not foreign soil, it is our own timelines, group chats and dinner tables, […]

Is ‘Hacked’ a Dangerous Euphemism?

September 14, 2025

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Are you outraged by the endless stream of digital crimes, or have you become numb to them?  The latest in a long line of global victims being the Jaguar Land Rover breach that has thrown its supply chain into turmoil, threatening small businesses and livelihoods, while at the same time KillSec ransomware has been reported […]

Facial Recognition, Because Freedom Looks Better in Handcuffs

August 13, 2025

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For a party that insists it is on the side of the people, the current UK Labour government shows an increasingly uncomfortable tendency to treat privacy and personal freedom as optional extras, privileges to be granted when convenient, rather than rights to be protected. Recent policy moves reveal a temperament that blends centralised control with […]

The Cyber Front – Hacking Markets & Exploiting High-Frequency Trading

March 13, 2025

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Trump has well and truly brought into the public psyche the reality of economic warfare with his tariff tiffs! Anyone watching their pension pot valuations will be feeling this most viscerally. The US, EU and UK stock markets are no longer just a playground for investors but a frontline in economic warfare. While UK’s inexperienced […]

Deepfakes, Directory Listings & the Joy of Public Data Abuse!

October 19, 2024

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To all you good people of the modern surveillance state, that which you are more familiar with in its curated form as ‘the information age’! This missive is addressed to honour our unsung hero: publicly available data, the ultimate gift that keeps on giving… to cybercriminals. Imagine a world where you can impersonate someone using […]

AI – to regulate or NOT to regulate, not a simple question …

March 11, 2024

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The debate on AI regulation involves complex considerations of ethics, technology, economics, and policy. Proponents argue regulation ensures ethical AI use, protects privacy and security, prevents monopolies, guarantees public safety, and establishes accountability. Critics, however, warn it may stifle innovation, disadvantage countries in global competition, risk regulatory capture, struggle with AI’s rapid evolution, and face […]