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Archives: The World Wide Web

  • Category: Tech
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Determining the age of the World Wide Web (not the Internet), as we know it is a tricky business; for the purpose of this post we'll go with December 1990. This is when Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau introduced hypertext publicly.

Have You Considered Online Security? - Part One

  • Category: Security
  • Category: Guides
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It seems increasingly common to read reports of web site owners not taking as much care over the security of our personal data as both we and the authorities believe they should. Is this because they do not value our data, are just not aware, or worse, not capable to...

Have You Considered Online Security? - Part Two

  • Category: Security
  • Category: Guides
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To raise awareness of how many organisations we assume are taking care of our data just aren't. It is long overdue that we take more care of it ourselves. But that means being alive to the issues and thinking about what we should do.

Cookies and Permission - Update

  • Category: Tech
  • Category: Guides
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The Information Commissioner (ICO) and the EU Working party have revisited the original 2011 law that required websites to explicitly request permission from the visitor before placing a cookie on their machine.

Searching the Internet is good for you

  • Category: Tech
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And that's now official. "If you think our incessant use of the Internet, Blackberrys, iPods, text-messaging and video games has changed our lives and our children's lives, here's some breaking news...