Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
Calling for a uniform approach to card fraud, offline and on
This blog is an edited extract from an article of the same name, first published...
Who’s listening to Ed Snowden?
In one of the most highly anticipated sessions ever at the annual South-by-Southwest (SXSW) culture...
The strengths and weaknesses of Data Privacy in the Age of Big Data
This is the abstract of a current privacy conference proposal. Synopsis Many Big Data and...
gotofail and a defence of purists
‘The widely publicised and very serious “gotofail” bug in iOS7 took me back … Early...
FIDO Alliance goes from strength to strength
With a bunch of exciting new members joining up on the eve of the RSA...
How are we to defend anonymity?
If anonymity is important, what is the legal basis for defending it? I find that...
Feb
Security Isn’t Secure
That is, information security is not intellectually secure. Almost every precept of orthodox information security...
The Snapchat data breach
Yesterday it was reported by The Verge that anonymous hackers have accessed Snapchat’s user database...
The ROI for breaching Target
An unhappy holiday for Target customers A week before Christmas, Target in the US revealed...
Facebook’s challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle
Dec 25, 2013 Facebook’s challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle An extract from our chapter...