No doubt many more use cases than I've mentioned here but thought it was worth highlighting, given the UK's recent exposures to business cyber attacks.

This is an excellent investment in combating organised cyber crime and hostile state activity and, if yesterday's ONS results are anything to go by, could see a boost to the economy.

CHERI has huge implications for the protection of the UK's manufacturing sector and its outputs, which feels pretty relevant given the recent cyber attack on Jaguar.

which international and adversial intelligence agencies are well prepared for in the gathering of bulk encrypted data that quantum processing will eventually unlock. www.thetimes.com/article/ad10...

But this also will include post-quantum cryptographic securities to protect against the inevitable Q Day -

They're basically going to fit and retrofit hardware securities to new and existing tech including and especially CNI, to combat 70% of common cyber attacks.

Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) "adds security at the hardware level [existing] which means many common cyber attacks, like hijacking software or stealing data, can be stopped, ensuring devices are better protected than ever."

And my favourite, improved definition of organised cyber crime and HSA crossovers (the former very much being a vector for the latter, as evidenced by North Korea's Lazarus Group).

You can see the slowing more clearly in the monthly data with output contracting in September. Looking at sectors, there was an encouraging bounce back in services in Sep offset by very weak production, affected by weak car production (affected by Jaguar outage).

Clearly, that party has its priorities straight.

But you know what, let's continue to focus upon immigrant rapists. Far more cut-through when you need votes. Let's ignore the cryptocurrency donations to Reform, which - using mixers - could originate from Christ-knows where.

Or hostile repression in British universities, and across the UK for that matter, of the Chinese diaspora. www.thetimes.com/article/7ae7...

Who on Earth do they think orchestrates this street-level organised crime. www.thetimes.com/article/527b...

While at the same time whinging about regulation in the financial and professional sectors. Get bent.

I would also, at this point, like to reiterate my utter contempt for political parties that make a song and dance about small boats and illegal immigration while inviting in immigrants carrying vast sums of dirty money to plug into the UK, along with the higher echelons of organised criminality.

That Times story is an extraordinary one, by the way, of the interface between Chinese state-sanctioned interference and organised crime. www.thetimes.com/article/7eb9...

I don't believe for one moment that either rightwing party - or Labour for that matter - are prepared to instigate the appropriate accompanying due diligence and professional enabler reporting for management of a new HNW investor scheme. bsky.app/profile/usag...

Hence why I'm not overly keen on the idea promoted by both the Conservatives and Reform of reinstating an investor visa scheme akin to the erstwhile Tier 1 scheme, in this wonderfully febrile environment of reduced regulation. bsky.app/profile/usag...

Thankfully closed off by the government, although it took a while and the invasion of Ukraine might have had something to do with it.