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The UK Government have just announced a half-sensible security measure. Thousands of UK workers are being trained to help respond to a future terror attack as part of an updated counter-terror strategy, ministers say. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said shop and hotel workers would be among 60,000 people able to deal with an incident. (via [...]

The BBC is reporting that the Northern Ireland Executive are shopping for new computers: Thousands of ‘ultra-secure’ computers costing £6m are to be bought by the NI executive following a series of embarrassing losses of personal data. About 4,000 high-security laptops and 10,000 new desktop computers are being bought. The BBC has also learned the [...]

Bruce Schneier, for “Bomb Squad Defuses Turnip” The news article is priceless too! Schneier is a security and cryptography luminary who regularly blogs about silly security-related goings on in order to highlight how ludicrous the actions of many authorities have become in recent years.

Have you ever been stopped by an in-store security guard because the tag on a product you bought elsewhere triggered the door alarm in their shop? It turns out there’s a brand of stock-control chip that has such a reputation for doing this, it actually causes a security vulnerability. The problem is especially interesting because [...]

Two people have been cautioned for using people’s wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission, according to the BBC. There was a segment on this story on Radio 4′s PM program this evening. Some guy from West Mercia police was scare-mongering about people with unsecured WiFi connections being accused of terrorism or child pornography offenses if [...]