Mr Rederick
@misterrederick.bsky.social
IT specialist; massive over thinker and procrastinator supreme.
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🎥 Why is the chancellor rolling the pitch for tax rises?
Because she's backed herself into a fiscal hole.
So what happens next?
The short answer is a VERY controversial Budget. A massive moment in UK economics and politics.
For the longer answer watch my 13 min (!) primer 👇 youtu.be/uminSMgTxjM?...
Because she's backed herself into a fiscal hole.
So what happens next?
The short answer is a VERY controversial Budget. A massive moment in UK economics and politics.
For the longer answer watch my 13 min (!) primer 👇 youtu.be/uminSMgTxjM?...
Ed Conway analysis: Is raising taxes the only option for the chancellor?
YouTube video by Sky News
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November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🎥 Why is the chancellor rolling the pitch for tax rises?
Because she's backed herself into a fiscal hole.
So what happens next?
The short answer is a VERY controversial Budget. A massive moment in UK economics and politics.
For the longer answer watch my 13 min (!) primer 👇 youtu.be/uminSMgTxjM?...
Because she's backed herself into a fiscal hole.
So what happens next?
The short answer is a VERY controversial Budget. A massive moment in UK economics and politics.
For the longer answer watch my 13 min (!) primer 👇 youtu.be/uminSMgTxjM?...
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There are absolutely real cybersecurity risks as well - not least, from the people with legitimate access to the system. For example, every year more than half of the prosecutions under the Computer Misuse Act are of serving police officers caught misusing their access to police databases.
September 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
There are absolutely real cybersecurity risks as well - not least, from the people with legitimate access to the system. For example, every year more than half of the prosecutions under the Computer Misuse Act are of serving police officers caught misusing their access to police databases.
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This week's net.wars, "The absurdity card", can't believe we're doing ID cards all over again: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/26/t...
The absurdity card
Fifteen years ago, a new incoming government swept away a policy its immediate predecessors had been pushing since shortly after the 2001 9/11 attacks: identity
netwars.pelicancrossing.net
September 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This week's net.wars, "The absurdity card", can't believe we're doing ID cards all over again: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/26/t...
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This week's net.wars, "Big Bang", finds a folk musician fighting to get back the rights over his long-ago recorded music, and chronicles the first week of age verification in the UK: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/01/b...
Big bang
In 2008, when the recording industry was successfully lobbying for an extension to the term of copyright to 95 years, I wrote about a spectacular unfairness tha
netwars.pelicancrossing.net
August 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This week's net.wars, "Big Bang", finds a folk musician fighting to get back the rights over his long-ago recorded music, and chronicles the first week of age verification in the UK: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/01/b...
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Didn't think to cross post this, but it's been done for me now!
PSA: If you use O2 and you can get off, there is an active vulnerability in their network that allows people to track you just by phoning a phone number. The stalkers dream of an exploit, and O2 do not care
mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05...
Article by @davwheat.dev and dwilliamsuk
mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05...
Article by @davwheat.dev and dwilliamsuk
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Privacy is dead: For multiple months, any O2 customer has had their location exposed to call initiators without their knowledge.
mastdatabase.co.uk
May 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Didn't think to cross post this, but it's been done for me now!
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🚨Quick!
Watch my 3min primer on tariffs, before Donald Trump changes everything again at his next press conference...
🎥Follow the journey of a piston back and forth across the US/Canadian/Mexican border and you soon see why this is all such a big deal👇 youtu.be/kPi4V7UXxUk?...
Watch my 3min primer on tariffs, before Donald Trump changes everything again at his next press conference...
🎥Follow the journey of a piston back and forth across the US/Canadian/Mexican border and you soon see why this is all such a big deal👇 youtu.be/kPi4V7UXxUk?...
How Trump's tariffs could cost consumers in US and UK | Ed Conway analysis
YouTube video by Sky News
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March 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🚨Quick!
Watch my 3min primer on tariffs, before Donald Trump changes everything again at his next press conference...
🎥Follow the journey of a piston back and forth across the US/Canadian/Mexican border and you soon see why this is all such a big deal👇 youtu.be/kPi4V7UXxUk?...
Watch my 3min primer on tariffs, before Donald Trump changes everything again at his next press conference...
🎥Follow the journey of a piston back and forth across the US/Canadian/Mexican border and you soon see why this is all such a big deal👇 youtu.be/kPi4V7UXxUk?...
@jonhoneyball.bsky.social on the PcPro podcast yesterday you commented on why national roaming didn't happen. From reading, Cameron Govt asked networks. They pointed to £bn's spent on licences since 85. Told to compete and fight for customers, argued change this you return money. Stalemate.
December 6, 2024 at 12:22 PM
@jonhoneyball.bsky.social on the PcPro podcast yesterday you commented on why national roaming didn't happen. From reading, Cameron Govt asked networks. They pointed to £bn's spent on licences since 85. Told to compete and fight for customers, argued change this you return money. Stalemate.