Category: professional life

  • This Week I Learned – Issue 3

    Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering Lectures are online Professor Ross Anderson, of the Security Engineering book, has put his new Security Engineering Lecture videos online. The lectures cover the following topics – who security adversaries are, formal threat models and security policies, banking and payment security, security economics, security psychology (including usability), network security, hardware security,…

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  • The Hello Machine

    When I worked in telecommunications (late 2000’s) Electronic Switching Systems had been pretty much taken over by software switching systems, but the proprietary hardware, closely coupled to the software, was still very much an important component. While the call switching and routing was no longer achieved by thousands and thousands of hardware relays switching dedicated…