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Continue reading →: On becoming a Glass Room Ingenius
I RARELY LOOK at email newsletters, even the ones I’ve subscribed to, but in September I opened ‘In The Loop’ from a Berlin technology collective called Tactical Tech, and inside was a dream opportunity to build on work begun during my sabbatical. BE AN INGENIUS FOR THE GLASS ROOM LONDONThe Ingenius…
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Continue reading →: Happy 30th to Acorns Cotteridge – a note from the founder’s daughter
It was 30 years ago, in September 1987, that my mother, Ann Cullinan, opened the first-ever Acorns Children’s Hospice Shop in Cotteridge, South Birmingham. There are now three hospices and 57 shops, and next year Acorns hopes to reach 60 shops. It is a fantastic legacy of which I’m sure she…
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Continue reading →: How to make your cybersecurity event more engaging
I’m fascinated by how cybersecurity enthusiasts and organisers present and run their events, as that seems to be crucial in (a) getting people to come along, (b) triggering action. I attended three cybersecurity events in September – Cryptoparty London, Cy3sec and Cybersecurity for ‘Real People’ – and learnt a lot…
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Continue reading →: End of the sabbatical – so what’s new?
A year ago yesterday I logged off a seven-year freelance contract and started planning a different life – a healthier one with a better work-life balance preferably, and maybe a change of work focus, and maybe take some time to explore all those things I’d been stacking up on the backburner,…
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Continue reading →: Seven ways the Bank of England encourages a culture of cybersecurity
“What is important to you?” This is the first question to ask before planning any cybersecurity strategy, according to John Scott, Head of Information Security Education at the Bank of England, talking at the recent Cybersecurity UK Roadshow event in Birmingham (notes here). Because if you don’t know what a…
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Continue reading →: Notes from Cyber Security UK Roadshow Birmingham
A one-day event held yesterday held at Innovation Birmingham on the Aston Uni campus to help businesses get to grips with cybersecurity. It was organised by Metsi Technologies, and supported by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) in the West Midlands. The Twitter account and hashtag…
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Continue reading →: Tor’s two sides, Amazon’s offline surveillance and how to obfuscate
Interesting links I’ve read this week: The dilemma of the dark web: protecting neo-Nazis and dissidents alike (Guardian, 23/8/17) “Perhaps the most important use of Tor, for many of its users, is simply allowing access to the open web in a protected and private manner. The system works by bouncing…
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Continue reading →: The dick* pic guide to government surveillance
* and boob I had a conversation with a family member recently about my growing interest in cybersecurity and they responded with ‘I’ve got nothing to hide so I’m not worried’. Basically, let the government watch them if it stops terrorists; it’s all good. For someone who grew up in…
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Continue reading →: Challenge: Get up early for a week
A random wish on my sabbatical list – and one of the toughest for me as a night owl – was to get up at dawn for a week to see what it would feel like and discover if/how it would change my day/life. With sunrise at 4.45am in June…
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Continue reading →: Since Snowden… a visit to Infosecurity Europe 2017
‘Since Snowden’ has become a bit of a catchphrase for me after his revelations in 2013 about the mass government surveillance of our data. Since Snowden I’ve watched Citizenfour, read The Snowden Files, completed two OU cybersecurity courses, joined ORG Birmingham, learnt how to use PGP encryption, risk-audited my personal…
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