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ID Cards are crap

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2006 at 12:31 pm

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It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read pretty much anything I have written on the subject of National ID Cards over the course of the last few years, that I am no great fan of the idea. Not for any great

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Does Microsoft bribe bloggers?

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Blog, Microsoft on December 29, 2006 at 4:48 pm

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Sorry, obviously that

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Vista security flaws exposed

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Vista on December 26, 2006 at 9:19 pm

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It had to happen. It was inevitable. I knew it was going to happen. You knew it was going to happen. We all knew it was going to happen. After all, this might well be

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Microsoft Forefront

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Microsoft on December 24, 2006 at 12:27 pm

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Sometimes you just cannot help but having a good old laugh at the expense of the marketing folk who come up with product branding. Take Nintendo for example, who on earth thought that

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Bill Gates is not Nostradamus

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2006 at 11:28 am

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Anyone else remember Comdex 2004? I do, because it was here that Bill Gates had one of his magic moments. Previous examples include such nuggets as

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Identity theft R.I.P

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Security on December 19, 2006 at 4:31 pm

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The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee have been meeting to investigate personal Internet security. I bet you can hardly contain your excitement that all our security problems will soon be over now that government is on the case. Well, maybe not huh?

Already the committee has heard evidence from representatives of APACS, VISA and the FSA, who were apparently put through their paces to provide answers regarding the mechanisms which the UK financial industry has put in place to protect users of online banking and, indeed, other online financial services.

To give you a flavour of what goes on at these sessions, here is a potted guide to the questions asked and the answers given:

The Lords: With online banking fraud increasing by 90% to

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Celebration of the nerd

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on at 10:06 am

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Bring up the subject of outsourcing and the knee jerk reaction is usually of the predictable

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All talk and no Microsoft

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in IBM, Microsoft on December 9, 2006 at 3:29 pm

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IBM has announced the creation of what it calls the world

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