Month: February 2016

  • Podcast – quick history of encryption

    I did a quick video of a very short history of encryption for a friend who was putting on a screening of Citizen Four. I tried to put the film into some context, including the crypto wars. Hard to do in ~10 minutes but I think I managed it. Please accept YouTube cookies to play…

  • Investigatory Powers Bill

    The video below is a recording of Teresa May answering questions on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill. some interesting highlights (or low lights) for me where the following: She essentially didn’t answer the question on why it is unhelpful to compare the retention of web history with that of an itemised phone bill. The two things…