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We blog regularly about the future of digital identity and data protection, the fraught state of cybersecurity and privacy, and messes like blockchain, software engineering, and social media.

CNP fraud continues to rise in Australia

Every six months, the Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics for the...

‘Cybernfreude’ and Wikileaks

Wikileaks has long been invaluable. So I hate to think that in flooding us with...

Smile! You’re on Candid Apple

Apple is reported to have acquired the “Polar Rose” technology that allows photos to be tagged...

Wikileaks’ ‘defenders’ take the law into their own hands

On ABC Radio PM yesterday, Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu suggested that Wikileaks might...

No easy fix for federated identity liability

One of the many open questions in the proposed National Strategy for Trusted Identities in...

Generic verisimilitude

“Generic verisimilitude” is a nice big word! It means the accepted visual language that conveys...

The dogs bark but the caravan moves on

Question: Can you guess when this was written? e-security in slow motion Australia has for...

Is the cloud sustainable?

The value proposition of cloud computing is basically that backend or server-side computing is somehow...

Security is dead

Is Security Dead, in the same sense as “Quality is Dead”, with reference to the...

NSTIC delayed — for the wrong reasons

Predictably, ratification by the President of the US National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace has...