Richard's Kingdom

As far as phishing schemes go they don’t come better than Verified by Visa. Fortunately it isn’t actually a scam. However it so closely resembles the perfect online con that this detail makes little practical difference. What’s more it’s turning customers away from merchants who employ the system.
If you use a credit card online you’ve [...]

The UK Government have just announced a half-sensible security measure.
Thousands of UK workers are being trained to help respond to a future terror attack as part of an updated counter-terror strategy, ministers say. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said shop and hotel workers would be among 60,000 people able to deal with an incident.
(via bbc.co.uk)
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There’s an interesting discussion on David Davis’ opinions about CCTV on Samizdata. Quoth Davis:
Today I have been explaining that I am not against CCTV- but if it is going to be used the cameras should be able to provide clear images and all of the evidence should be usable in court. Currently only 20% is [...]

The BBC is reporting that the Northern Ireland Executive are shopping for new computers:
Thousands of ‘ultra-secure’ computers costing £6m are to be bought by the NI executive following a series of embarrassing losses of personal data. About 4,000 high-security laptops and 10,000 new desktop computers are being bought. The BBC has also learned the Civil [...]

Bruce Schneier, for “Bomb Squad Defuses Turnip”
The news article is priceless too!
Schneier is a security and cryptography luminary who regularly blogs about silly security-related goings on in order to highlight how ludicrous the actions of many authorities have become in recent years.