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The dawn of GDPR is upon us.  All email now need to be encrypted right?
Depends!
There are common misconceptions surrounding emails and encryption and security in general.  First of all, let us consider the way things were a few years ago.  All emails sent in plain text –  a bit like a postcard – the postman could enjoy reading it...

Ok, I have weakened!  I resisted the temptation to harp on about GDPR for a long time.  Now in the week of the enactment of the UK law I find myself writing about it.  Why?
Frankly I have been quite nauseated by the feeding frenzy exibited by IT distributors and consultants generally relating to this new data protection law.  The scent of blood in the water is just too much for many it seems and the idea that they can swoop...

Or the polytunnel, tool store, wood cabin, holiday cottage, barn, studio, ty bach, or whatever.
Here is the scenario; you have decent internet in the house but you find that the wirless hub that came with it just doesn’t reach itself through the 2 feet of granite, tin sheets, cob walls or straw bales....

Cast your minds back to 2009.  A nasty new internet worm is abroad and rampant.  These were the days of Conficker.
A lot has been written about this threat in the past.  The impact in 2009 was huge, with over 10 million infections and some of the compromised networks included the UK Houses of Parliament, and the UK MoD.  Embarrassing!  The worm was effective because...