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Vic Baines
Vic Baines

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Jun 24, 2019

On Online Harms and Folk Devils: Careful Now

I have been asked by a number of friends and colleagues what I think about the UK government’s recent White Paper on Online Harms. It’s a long read (over 100 pages in total), and I have read it carefully. I’m glad I waited a few weeks to comment. It has…

Privacy

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On Online Harms and Folk Devils: Careful Now
On Online Harms and Folk Devils: Careful Now
Privacy

30 min read


Apr 19, 2019

On banking security, and how it’s not just the bank’s job

On banking security, and how it’s not just the bank’s job This week, I was asked to comment on live radio on TSB’s announcement that they will refund customers for transactional fraud, even when they have authorised the payments themselves. The media represented this as an unprecedented step, and TSB…

Security

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On banking security, and how it’s not just the bank’s job
On banking security, and how it’s not just the bank’s job
Security

6 min read


May 10, 2018

Eugene Kaspersky Wrote My Epitaph

I know what you’re thinking. The headline sounds like something from a cold war espionage thriller. Or McMafia. But it’s a perfectly true story. Bear with me while I unpack it. Evgeny Kaspersky — known more often as Eugene in the US and Western Europe — is one of the…

Cybersecurity

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Eugene Kaspersky Wrote My Epitaph
Eugene Kaspersky Wrote My Epitaph
Cybersecurity

5 min read

Vic Baines

Vic Baines

14 Followers

Former Facebooker and Europol officer. Purveyor of future oriented musings on cybercrime, cybersecurity and internet diplomacy.

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