Making Skype calls using a Smart TVs is actual well…pretty smart. TVs have a nice display, good sound, and they’re usually located somewhere pretty where you can gather the whole family round for that cheery Christmas message of goodwill. Unfortunately Smart TVs bring the misery of web passwords straight to the comfort of your own living room…
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I ♥ PINs
Whilst my sister and her partner are away holidaying in warmer climes, I took the opportunity to take my rabble family up to Midlands and stay at their house.
Being upstanding and security conscious citizens their house is protected by an burglar alarm. Whilst I thought I knew the PIN, I wasn’t sure and besides they might have changed it. So how to get the PIN from them? Continue reading I ♥ PINs
Three strikes and you’re locked out
Despite a brief flirtation with American Football in the 90’s, I’ve never been able get on with American sports. They are just well… a bit dull. Despite my indifference to the sports themselves, their terminology – and specifically “three strikes and you’re out” – has impacted my life and yours in a surprising way.
Can we do better?
The mantra of a good algorithm designer is can we do better? For usable security researchers, doing better means delivering low friction solutions that enable end users to go about their business whilst also managing security risks effectively.
I don’t know how to fowad
My colleague in the Security Group at Cambridge (David Chisnall) recently sent around a link to an article highlighting some of the historic failings of MI5.
The description of the internment of Iraqi students at the start of the first Gulf war, jogged my memory about a rather bizarre experience I had when doing work experience at Warwick University around this time.