Terence Eden’s Blog – Regular nonsense about tech and its effects

Another day, another data breach.
the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people.
ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach...

I have a dual SIM Android phone. When I call or text, I get a choice of which SIM to use. But there's no quick way to swap which SIM is used for data.
There used to be a built-in settings tile on stock Android, and some manufacturers still have it, but Google's Pixels don't....

Journalists love context-free numbers - things that sound large and scary, but without any helpful information to allow you to judge their significance.
Here's a good example from a BBC article about Electric Vehicle subsidies:
There are around 1.3 million electric cars on Britain's roads but currently only around 82,000 public charging points....

Imagine, just for a moment, that a mathematical breakthrough had occurred on the eve of the second World War. Perhaps Turing or Rejewski or Driscoll realised that prime number theory held the key to unbreakable encryption. This blog post attempts to...