Posts by Matt

Minister trashes ex-spook chief's liberty warning

dumb and dumber

In the blue corner: Stella Rimington, ex-Head of MI5, with around 30 years of experience in the relevant sector

In the red corner: Tony McNulty, MP and minor minister in the Department of Work and Pensions with degrees in policitcal science and political theory

Go figure

Paris, 'cos I'm in despair, and you can spell 'Paris' with some of the letters in 'despair'

Password pants-off at Lloyds Bank

Re: They Lied...

You _can_ unregister with Lloyds PhoneBank - something I did after someone tried to take all my savings, after walking (easily) through all the security checks - just go and do it in you branch

Logic-gate 'supermolecules' play noughts & crosses

Next week

...10 A*s at GCSE.

UK.gov plans central database for all your communications

Missing the point?

The government are playing to the Daily Mail crowd, and they don't care how much the idea (such as it is) costs or how impractical it is (completely) they only care about getting votes and looking tough on crime and terrorism.

Your average voter doesn't really grasp any of issues which is why ministers can talk such arrant nonsense about 100% secure databases and get away with it.