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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a warning about what it calls the "worrying trend" of students hacking their own school and college IT systems for fun or as part of dares.

It has told teachers that they are failing to understand and recognise what it calls the "insider threat" pupils pose.

It says more the majority of so-called "insider" cyber attacks and data breaches in education settings - meaning they have been carried out by someone with access to internal systems - originate with students.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c203pedz58go

But they will never work out VPNs and bypassing OSA.

If an illegal activity was committed using a VPN, the police can trace the users via a warrant to id them from the ISP and then the VPN provider

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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

https://bsky.app/profile/headfallsoff.com/post/3lyjfuonko223

One of the saddest things in modern UK politics is the way Jo Cox has been elevated, whilst David Amess has been relatively forgotten. Both murdered by political/religious extremists.

People pick whichever one matches their prejudices, and elevate that while minimizing the other.

I try to remember both, and also Gow. I could go back further, but they're really beyond my political time.

You’re of a similar age to me and in our lifetimes six MPs have been murdered, one by a far right extremist, one by a Muslim terrorist, and four by Christian terrorists.

I’d add Cllr Andrew Pennington who was murdered trying to stop a mentally ill murdering an MP.

Since when were the IRA Christian terrorists?

They said their objectives was to free Catholics who were being persecuted.

Their main objective was to 'free' Northern Ireland and Ulster from British rule and create a United Ireland ie nationalism not religion, they also targeted Northern Irish and British Protestants who are and were as Christian as Catholics

Depends on your definition of 'Christian'. I've known NI Protestants who objected to the description of Roman Catholics as Christian. And Catholics who've argued the same about Evangelical Protestants.
To be fair, not recently; things have moved on a lot during my lifetime.

They believe in the Trinity and Christ as Messiah, so are all Christian. They just differ on transubstantiation, the authority of the Pope and sometimes Bishops too and whether they prefer low church bible based and simple music or high church communion and choral based worship

Just seen an update from Sky that Mandleson was appointed 'despite security concerns'

If so...Starmer is in real danger.

Oooft - yep, that would do it, if there’s a smoking gun.

There’s precedent for this.

Two officers from MI5 visited Downing Street in 2020 to brief Boris Johnson on the national security risks of giving Evgeny Lebedev a seat for life in the upper house of Parliament.

The then prime minister argued that the life peerage could go ahead because the MI5 officers’ security concerns were about Evgeny Lebedev’s father Alexander, a KGB-officer-turned-oligarch who has since been sanctioned by Canada and Ukraine for supporting Vladimir Putin’s war.

As the first case of a prime minister dismissing national security advice to make an appointment to the House of Lords, Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage has led to accusations of patronage, cronyism, and calls to reform the upper chamber. The case also represents Boris Johnson’s unserious approach to national security during his premiership, according to one of his former senior national security advisers in Downing Street.

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/06/26/mi5-visited-downing-street-to-warn-boris-johnson-against-evgeny-lebedevs-peerage

Members of the House of Lords don't routinely have access to top secret intelligence.

Silly old MI5 then.