Fascinating wee blog called Bank Notes, dedicated to banks and the notes robbers use. The notes range from the obvious: 'Give me all your money', to the sublime: '$250,000', to the ridiculous: 'Give me money or I will blow up a school'. It also tracks which are successful and which are not and provides some…
So, finally, November 2nd and here we are. SEPA day! SEPA direct debits go live today and the PSD was transposed successfully across all of Europe to become law yesterday. Apart from a few countries who missed the deadline. Obviously, Sweden who have always said April because the chap who was meant to transpose it…
So, finally, November 2nd and here we are. SEPA day! SEPA direct debits go live today and the PSD was transposed successfully across all of Europe to become law yesterday. Apart from a few countries who missed the deadline. Obviously, Sweden who have always said April because the chap who was meant to transpose it…
So, finally, November 2nd and here we are. SEPA day! SEPA direct debits go live today and the PSD was transposed successfully across all of Europe to become law yesterday. Apart from a few countries who missed the deadline. Obviously, Sweden who have always said April because the chap who was meant to transpose it…
Great story in this month's Wired magazine about the Inkjet Counterfeiter. "Counterfeiting is considered such a threat to the fabric of the United States that, along with treason, it is one of only two criminal offences named in the Constitution. Although now better known for its role in presidential security, the Secret Service was actually…
Great story in this month's Wired magazine about the Inkjet Counterfeiter. "Counterfeiting is considered such a threat to the fabric of the United States that, along with treason, it is one of only two criminal offences named in the Constitution. Although now better known for its role in presidential security, the Secret Service was actually…
Talking with a Swedish colleague, he asked me if I'd heard about their massive and audacious robbery. I said I had not. Britain's media tends to only covers British robberies, such as the great Securitas theft or the Northern Bank robbery. It wasn't his robbery or his banks as it turned out, but it is…
Talking with a Swedish colleague, he asked me if I'd heard about their massive and audacious robbery. I said I had not. Britain's media tends to only covers British robberies, such as the great Securitas theft or the Northern Bank robbery. It wasn't his robbery or his banks as it turned out, but it is…
I stumbled across Wikileaks this week, a website that leaks all sensitive information into public domain such as the leak of the UK's Ministry of Defence document on how to stop leaks. There's tons of fascinating stuff in there, and one of the more recent leaked documents is the European Commission's Working Package 4 (WP4)…
I stumbled across Wikileaks this week, a website that leaks all sensitive information into public domain such as the leak of the UK's Ministry of Defence document on how to stop leaks. There's tons of fascinating stuff in there, and one of the more recent leaked documents is the European Commission's Working Package 4 (WP4)…
