Wide participation in making rather than just consuming technology is important, here is why… Taking personal and organisational time and resources to encourage participation isn't always cheap or easy but it is the right thing to do

and that’s why I’m staying away from Bitcoin for a while There is lots of speculation as BTC passes $15,000 whether it is or isn’t a bubble but I think that by concentrating on fiat value based speculation we are entirely missing the point.

I was really interested to come across the Kwiizi project last week. It crosses two of my biggest interests: real time electronic collaboration and education in Africa. Using cheap Raspberry Pi computers and wireless network connectivity, it brings large repositories of electronic information and real time collaboration into High Schools.

I’ve just upgraded my Mac Book to Yosemite and the only casualty I’ve found so far is the IPSecuritas IPSec VPN wrapper application. Whilst it seems to work and establishes all of the SAs sucessfully via ISAKMP, it doesn’t then move any protected traffic. Googling around, it

Both our grown up teenagers finish exams and consequently school and college a lot earlier this year. We’ve spent practically all of the last year in idle debate about what to do this summer in a kind of spoilt for choice “term time holiday opportunity” kind of way. Trouble

Back in January I posted about the threat to HTTPS encryption posed by regimes who “own” both a telco and a trusted CA and are therefore theoretically able to generate secret certificates which allow them to mount country-scale man in the middle attacks to snoop on secure web communication. Since

Nearly a week ago Google announced that their new messaging app, Hangouts, would not have support for exchanging messages with users of other systems using XMPP. My first thoughts on this were: Google dropping XMPP from their new messaging platform is a big deal, definitely bad for customers, and may

Real time peer to peer communication on the web has had a good couple of months. At the end of January Chrome and Firefox demonstrated interop of two independent WebRTC implementations and then a couple of weeks ago Google squelched the MPEG LA attack on the open status of it’

For some years HTTPS web security has been considered pretty dependable. If I’m connected to a website, the right URL is showing in my browser and I have a padlock symbol then I’m probably talking to the site that I think I am (extra points for actually checking

I’ve just spent 24hrs on a train. No, this wasn’t in the UK, which would have been the wrong kind of leaves or an unseasonal 5mm of the wrong kind of snow, but deliberate choice to get across Canada. We got a cheap BA flight into Montreal from