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Gillian Tett, writing in the Financial Times Magazine, points out that the early evidence is not promising. Researchers who were tracking half a dozen DEXes over 18 months found that they were infested with bots that enable unscrupulous traders to cream off gazillions (basically by front running).

xxx Option A: Mandate retailers to only sell consumer IoT products that have the IoT security label, with manufacturers to self assess and implement a security label on their customer IoT products. From Secure By Design: All You Need To Know Consumer IoT Security | Security | Computerworld UK. xxx

xxx lmost 800,000 account holders on porn site Brazzers have had their details breached thanks to a vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software, potentially exposing some to online extortion attempts. Some 790,724 unique email addresses, as well as user names and plain text passwords, were exposed in the data dump From Brazzers Porn Site UsersContinue reading “Brazzers Porn Site Users Caught Out in Data Breach – Infosecurity Magazine”

xxx The age verification rule grew from a Conservative party campaign promise in 2015, and ended up tucked into what would become the Digital Economy Act 2017, a wide-ranging bundle of internet rules and regulations. Among the bill’s consequential but stultifying provisions about telecommunications infrastructure, copyright enforcement and government data sharing, the porn rule remainedContinue reading “How the U.K. Won’t Keep Porn Away From Teens – The New York Times”

We’ve just had some more elections in the UK and the push for voter ID continues. It’s not all gone completely smoothly. I read in the Daily Mirror of the sad tale of woman in her eighties turned away from the polling booths because she misunderstood the instructions and “brought a photograph of herself, ratherContinue reading “POST Posting and personating”

xxx In Europe mobile-only banks such as n26 and Monzo already use TransferWise to handle transfers. From Fintech takes aim at the steep cost of international money transfers – Special FX. xxx

xxx Lottery bosses have refused to pay out a £4million jackpot to two players who they suspect had bought the ticket with a stolen debit card. Organisers Camelot grew suspicious of Mark Goodram, 36, and Jon-Ross Watson, 31, when it emerged neither of them had a bank account to receive the winnings. From Lottery bossesContinue reading “Lottery bosses refuse to pay £4million jackpot over ‘stolen debit card’ | Daily Mail Online”

xxx “People who do not have access to a bank account pay an extra £485 a year for everyday bills and services, research from an account provider suggests. More than 1.2 million Britons do not have a bank account, so miss out on discounts reserved for those who pay bills by direct debit, said Pockit.”Continue reading “POST The right to be banked”

xxx “Remittances to low and middle-income countries reached a record high last year, the World Bank has said. Average transaction costs remain high, with an average of 7 percent paid to transfer $200 or equivalent.” From “Remittances Reach All-Time High | Best Exchange Rates – Save”. xxx

xxx “The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is planning to implement biometric exit technology in almost all commercial airports in the next four years.” From “U.S. Government to Roll Out Facial Recognition Software in Most Airports in Four Years | TravelPulse”. xxxxxx “As ofContinue reading “U.S. Government to Roll Out Facial Recognition Software in Most Airports in Four Years | TravelPulse”