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Peter Venton OBE, BSc, CEng, MIET – former Major Programme Review Chairman for HMG UK on Digital DemocracyJuly 26, 2019
In this exciting and provocative book, Ken argues that the general-purpose computer and the software built around it hasn’t changed,…
Capers Jones III on Digital DemocracyJuly 26, 2019
‘This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with software quality, hacking, malware and cybercrime. It covers the waterfront on…
ken@sipantic on Infallible AutomationJuly 26, 2019
The new book on this subject is ‘Digital Democracy’ and survival in cyberspace.

Democracy, Cyber Society and Trusted Software January 26, 2020
The Boeing 737 Max catastrophe, the Russian hacks in the 2016 election and recuring data breaches, even at the NSA, expose serious software flaws in the architecture of Cyberspace. Designed for isolated batch processing in WWII, shared memory led to page-based virtual machines, a privileged central operating system, dictatorial super-users, and the inadequate method of Identity Based […]
CSO Online: What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities January 23, 2020
CSO Online: What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities.https://www.csoonline.com/article/3513477/what-is-a-buffer-overflow-and-how-hackers-exploit-these-vulnerabilities.html
CSO Online: What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities January 23, 2020
CSO Online: What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities.https://www.csoonline.com/article/3513477/what-is-a-buffer-overflow-and-how-hackers-exploit-these-vulnerabilities.html
Monolithic Software & General-Purpose Computer Science is too complex to remain safe January 23, 2020
Civilizing Cyberspace: The Fight for Digital Democracy As witnessed with the Boeing 737 Max fiasco, the Russian hacks during the 2016 presidential campaign and the massive data breaches at every large organization including the NSA, life-supporting services needed for the 21st Century cyber society are unsound. Over time they unavoidably grow too complex to exhaustively test […]
Fox News: New scary email scam goes after your banking info January 23, 2020
Fox News: New scary email scam goes after your banking info.https://www.foxnews.com/tech/new-email-scam-goes-after-banking-info
Forbes: Microsoft Security Shocker As 250 Million Customer Records Exposed Online January 23, 2020
Forbes: Microsoft Security Shocker As 250 Million Customer Records Exposed Online.https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/01/22/microsoft-security-shocker-as-250-million-customer-records-exposed-online/
Microsoft discovers new sLoad 2.0 (Starslord) malware | ZDNet January 22, 2020
Hi, I thought you'd like this: Microsoft discovers new sLoad 2.0 (Starslord) malware | ZDNet - https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-discovers-new-sload-2-0-starslord-malware/
AppleInsider: Apple cancelled encrypted iCloud plans after the FBI complained January 21, 2020
AppleInsider: Apple cancelled encrypted iCloud plans after the FBI complained.https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/21/apple-dropped-plans-to-encrypt-icloud-after-the-fbi-complained
Civilizing Cyberspace: The Fight for Digital Democracy by Ken Hamer-Hodges. January 20, 2020
Throughout his career Ken taught colleagues the lessons learned from object-oriented machine code and the functional Church-Instructions of a Church-Turing Machine. His first book, "Civilizing Cyberspace: The Fight for Digital Democracy," explains why and how cyber society must evolve if citizens are to remain in charge of government in the 21st Century global village.See http:\\sipantic.net […]
The New Yorker: Living in Alan Turing’s Future January 20, 2020
The New Yorker: Living in Alan Turing's Future.https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/living-in-alan-turings-future

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