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30 Years Ago: The Manchester Bombing, 15 June 1996
On the morning of Saturday 15 June 1996, I was living on the tenth floor above the UMIST student union building (the Barnes Wallis Building), very close to Manchester Piccadilly railway station, and close enough to Manchester city centre to notice when its normal rhythms were interrupted. I was deputy warden of a student hall…
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How will Quantum Vulnerable Encryption (QVE) unravel?
I’ve written a little recently (and less recently!) about Post Quantum Encryption and how action is needed NOW. How the timeline of QVE’s unravelling and collapse will take place is almost impossible to say. But we might usefully draw some lessons from the collapse in confidence of the MD5 hashing algorithm. Let’s look at the…
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Or “Redaction Failures”. There have been many high-profile redaction failures over the years[1]. So it may help to briefly classify[2] them into some different types. Application of a black opaque block over the text in a PDF, leaving the original text selectable underneath. A classic of the redaction failure genre. Removal of text, but failing…
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Aaand it’s Amateur Phishing Night on LinkedIn!
There is quite a lot going on over on LinkedIn. Some of it is even validly business-related and useful, but a significant amount is not. This has worsened with its continued slide towards becoming more & more like facebørk, a deliberate strategem by its owner. There is phishing, impersonation, social engineering… If you are female…
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BCC2025 Diary – Part 3
Day 1 – Monday Slightly more business-oriented attire today. A little nervous, but also feeling quite confident; a curious combination – like Marmite flavoured Toothpaste (pastă de dinți cu aromă de pastă de drojdie, best I can describe it if unfamiliar with this rather peculiar British delicacy! The Marmite, that is. Not the toothpaste.) The…
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