New blogpost: "Configuring dovecot as a separate mail server for encrypted email storage, and fighting with Thunderbird to accept it"

I woke up far too early this morning, so I thought I'd write up a small project I undertook a few months back, as part of my decoded.legal ISO-27001-ish programme.

It was pretty straightforward, right up until I had to fight with Thunderbird, and wow was Thunderbird a complete pain here. But I won!

#RYOMS #Thunderbird #FOSS #dovecot #Email #SelfHosting #Linux 

 Does anyone know of a repository / collection of science fiction or similar short stories licensed under Creative Commons licences, or CC0, please?

#books #scifi 

 Linux and a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500:

plug in scanner
scan using GNOME's "Document Scanner"

Linux and a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 just pressing the button:

plug in scanner
install scanbd and add some basic config
a simple shell script to convert the incoming .png files into a pdf

Result: I've blitzed through a whole pile of paperwork very, very quickly. 

 

An AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Different AI systems vary in their levels of autonomy and adaptiveness after deployment.

Clear?

Doesn't that make:

#!/bin/bash

echo "$1"


an "AI system"?

OECD definition of "AI" 

 

An AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Different AI systems vary in their levels of autonomy and adaptiveness after deployment.

Clear?

Doesn't that make:

!#/bin/bash

echo "$1"


an "AI system"?

OECD definition of "AI" 

 Lots of talk today about post-quantum cryptography, and securing your systems against quantum computer attacks.

I'm going to use AI.

And perhaps the metaverse. 

 I wonder, in the light of the detailed list of infringements found by the European Data Protection Supervisor in respect of use of Microsoft 365 by the European Commission, whether any organisation using Microsoft 365 complies with the EU GDPR?!

How many orgs have just signed up with Microsoft?

https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2024-03/EDPS-2024-05-European-Commission_s-use-of-M365-infringes-data-protection-rules-for-EU-institutions-and-bodies_EN.pdf 

 New blog post: New rules for people making, importing, or distributing Internet-connected or connectable products (Part 2)

This is a (long overdue) follow-up post, about the imminent new rules in the UK for IoT and other connectable/connected products.

It looks at the different types of actor - manufacturers, importers, and distributors - and their obligations.

Next time, I'll look at the security requirements themselves. 

 New blog post: New rules for people making, importing, or distributing Internet-connected or connectable products (Part 2)

This is a (long overdue) follow-up post, about the imminent new rules in the UK for IoT and other connectable/connected products.

It looks at the different types of actor - manufacturers, importers, and distributors - and their obligations.

Next time, I'll look at the security requirements themselves. 

 Someone, who shall remain nameless, is doing heavy breathing in my DMs. 

 Anti-doping and data protection: Advocate General Ćapeta considers that a national anti-doping authority which publishes personal data of a doped professional athlete on the internet is not in breach of the GDPR

The resulting interference with the right to data protection may be justified by the preventive aim of such a publication.

Case C‑115/22 | NADA e.a.

#GDPR