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I was overjoyed to hear from Doctor Xand on Morning Live today, on how I can improve my lifestyle so that I can count on my knees. On the whole, though, I ...

Over a decade ago, I was more than a little amused at a 419 message of the “I’ve been hired to assassinate you” sub-category to which my  friend and colleague Urban Schrott, ...

This article is a much-expanded revisit to an article, no longer available, originally posted to a security research blog. The Wikipedia entry for ‘error message’ [1] includes a number of infamously confusing ...

I’ve never been a regular resident of the ivory halls of academia, but Mich Kabay recently made me aware of an article about legitimate scientific journals driven to distraction by being flooded ...

Yesterday’s useful advice from a TV commentator on matters of IT security can be boiled down to this: if someone sends you a one-time passcode and tells you not to share it ...

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I have spent a not-very-happy time this morning, besieged by Facebook group posts passed off as porn videos and trying to get rid of them. In fact, it’s unlikely that they’re either ...

[An extract from the forthcoming book ‘Facebook: Sins & Insensitivities’] The Tech Transparency Project claims to be ‘Holding Big Tech Accountable’ and tracks issues with Facebook, X, Google, Apple, Amazon et al ...

I have, at best, an uneasy relationship with Facebook. To paraphrase something that I’m writing at the moment (more about that shortly): I first subscribed to Facebook because I was working in ...