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This is -for now - the smartsizing personal blog. The SWOP communications twitter - rarely used has been deleted. Frankly it was always a big waste of time, but recently actually a PITA.

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*** Here is the general rant blog ***

Thought of the day: 'The arseholes at the Home Office who keep faning the flames for a National ID card scheme should be permanantly deported to North Korea. That way, they can get to enjoy the full experience of an all-pervasive state surveillance of everyone. That also goes for their politician cheerleaders such as Starmer, Blunkett and Bliar. And the likes of Crapita, Fushitu, IBM and KPMG who are salivating at the prospect of never-ending multi-billion pound contracts for an IT system that will never work...'

News links

Man arrested in connection with cyber-attack on airports The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex "as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace". There have been hundreds of flight delays after Collins Aerospace baggage and check-in software used by several airlines failed, with some boarding passengers using pen and paper.

Flaw in Cisco's Smart Software Manager allowed anyone to alter any user's password. And by anyone, we mean anyone - you don't need to be logged in. And by any user we mean any user - without logging in you can change the admin password, and then log in. Clearly, these data breaches is not going to end any time soon.

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You will no doubt be pleased to know that the person who writes this is not a professional web designer, developer or the person who will manage your website. His background is psychology with a dash of journalism. However SWOP's principles of web design run along the same lines of smartsizing:

Simple/Brutalist/direct
Fast as a feature
No spyware,tracking, annoying popups