Posts by Alec

DVLA data powers likely to be abused by foreign officials

Classified?

The image that accompanies this article appears to bear a protective marking of RESTRICTED, although you can't really tell for sure because it's cropped.

I'm pretty sure that you're not supposed to publish protectively marked material on the web for all and sundry to see!

Mario and Eee PC Girl bust Best Buy profits

Look at her left hand....

....looks like the hand, the eee, and the camera have been photoshopped in to me...

Skype hangs up on users

I hope it never comes back....

I can't deny Skype's utility as a piece of communications software, but from a corporate security viewpoint, Skype is a nightmare ... the protocol's desire to be un-categorisable (random ports, encrypted payload, constantly changing peer IP addresses) is the cause of many security headaches. Session analysis takes forever because of this, and more often than not the suspect traffic turns out to be Skype....

Please Skype - use a standard VoIP protocol, or make yours consistent and distinctive. If not for security reasons, do it so that we can categorise it as real-time traffic and prioritise it accordingly!