Here’s a question. How do you attack a highly protected Iranian computer system not linked to the Internet? Here’s the (obviously well briefed) answer. A virus which does all sorts of ingenious things in sequence, very fast, and without being spotted… In case you’re thinking about having a go yourself, […]
Back from giving further diplomatic mediation skills training in Brussels to EU officials. Unlike the FCO, the EU’s nascent foreign policy machine dimly sees the point of understanding how to get better outcomes by using smart mediation techniques. So, I duly help deliver the superb training they need. In the margins I […]
Want to know how information sloshes along the Internet’s many pipes? And the cleverness of Capacity, Bandwidth, Throughput and Latency? Yes please.
Here’s a depressing piece at Open Democracy by Turi Munthe, who summarises for us an analysis by Dr Martin Moore and the Media Standards Trust of the steep relative and absolute decline in foreign news coverage in the British newspapers: The statistics make frightening reading. They compared foreign news coverage […]
Exhibit A: Trust: the behavioural challenge PwC Point of View paper, Oct 2010 Exhibit B: The Rational Optimist Let’s start with Exhibit A, a recent paper put out by PwC which looks at the role of Trust in corporate culture. Underpinning the analysis is the “ethicability” methodology advanced by Prof Roger Steare, a fellow Business and […]
Update: see now also this Economist piece by Edward Lucas. * * * * * Yesterday I attended an ecumenical Mass of Reparation in Great Missenden, organised with the strong support of the British Slovene Society led by Keith Miles. The Mass was held to pay tribute to the thousands of […]
Last night I attended a dinner for current and former political activists. Some were long retired. One man told me how he had lived for the past 84 years in the house where he was born. I wonder if there is or has been anyone else in the UK who […]
Renewed talk of changing the core EU Treaties, this time to strengthen sanctions against countries which show themselves unworthy of being in the Eurozone? The problem with changing one part of the EU core structure (this time to meet German demands that Germany and its banks be protected from being […]
There I was happily dictating into my PC via Dragon voice recognition software some elegant thoughts about the state of UK/Russia relations and associated existential issues, when some or other sound I uttered caused the whole lot to be deleted without trace. Just when it was getting interesting. Aaaargh. I […]
As the full horror of our impending house move comes into view, with the first cardboard boxes insinuating themselves into the house for some advance packing, Mrs Crawf and I have been seeking solace in new IT equipment. Thus Mrs C has made a quantum leap from her lumpy Tesco […]
