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London Calling

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A sign of the times... Team GB's Georgia Bell not only wins Olympic silver in the 1500m, but works for a London firm that analyses cybersecurity breaches (whereas in Paris in 1924 they'd have been wearing breeches). Our own website attracts any number of visits each week from word of mouth alone, and so I've revised it to make it a little clearer along with a new tag-line which reads 'Five Means to Secure Screens'. I hope you like it: www.bloxlox.com Like 1500 metres, it's a paced race.

Digital Commoner

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Am not one to obsess over stats, but feedback from the Digital Commons is of special interest to one graduate of geography like myself, as it makes for a snapshot of a kind that prior the internet would barely have been possible. Looking then at a variety of papers and bearing in mind some have had a head start, it is interesting to note that pictures are still worth a thousand words. Of the half-dozen airframes I may have circulated by which means we might be elevated by super-sized drones, the one appearing here has proven by far the most popular... and the only one downloaded by commercial helicopter (and bizarrely, access platform) manufacturers. The runner-up meanwhile is a paper describing how people we might recognise might also be used as a means of secure access to computer systems. Yes, we all recognise Ronald McDonald, but would I recognise your grandmother? The spread around the world reflects our common cultures too. For instance in the US two downloads in San Fran and...