The outgoing ‘C’ gave an interview to the FT: “So Alex, you’ve been at the service for 30 years, 30 years of being a spy, and then a chief spy. What is the reality of life as a spy? I think that there is a big intellectual curiosity thing. I mean, our job is asking […]
As a kid, I used to scan the radio waves at night, trying to find something different or unusual. I even added extra cable to the aerial in an effort to pick up more signal from further away (I don’t know if it worked, I never examined the physics of it!). The heaviside layer moves […]
Some good news in the last days of the Obama administration, President Obama has commuted the vast bulk of Chelsea Manning’s 35 year sentence and she will be released next May 17th.
There’s no such thing as being ‘offline’ anymore. It’s almost impossible, I’d say, to live any sort of normal life without having your data on some machine somewhere. And if you engage in any way with other people, then you use at least email, and probably some sort of social network. There’s no escape now […]
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/20/i-live-in-a-terrorist-house-police-speak-to-muslim-boy-10-over-spelling-error As a result, the child was interviewed on 7 December by police and the authorities examined a laptop found at his family home. His family has since demanded the school and police apologise, according to the BBC. A cousin of the boy, who has not been named to protect his identity, said his relatives initially […]
Well now, that’s interesting… MI5 has concluded that there is no easy way to identify those who become involved in terrorism in Britain, according to a classified internal research document on radicalisation seen by the Guardian. The sophisticated analysis, based on hundreds of case studies by the security service, says there is no single pathway […]
