Category Kantara initiative

Is 118800 a red herring?

You know what? I’m actually starting to feel twinges of sympathy for the folks at Connectivity. There are two pieces in the Guardian devoted to the suspension of their mobile directory enquiries services, one from yesterday and one from today.…

The relentless march of progress

March 2006 – UK introduces RFID-enabled, ICAO-compliant ‘e-passports’; March 2007 – Adam Laurie demonstrates ability to unlock e-passport chip data for ‘read’ access; August 2008 – Jeroen van Beek demonstrates ability to clone e-passport chip and implant bogus images; August…