{"id":382,"date":"2007-10-30T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2007-10-30T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:07:55","slug":"uk-government-resists-peer-pressure-on-internet-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/382-uk-government-resists-peer-pressure-on-internet-security.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Government resists Peer pressure on internet security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July this year the House of Lords reported on personal internet security. I read the report and was impressed. I don&#8217;t agree with all of it, but I found it well-researched and mostly sensible. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/ld200607\/ldselect\/ldsctech\/165\/165i.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download it here [PDF]<\/a>; I recommend it if you&#8217;ve not yet read the actual document.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.official-documents.gov.uk\/document\/cm72\/7234\/7234.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">UK Government&#8217;s response [PDF]<\/a>, on the other hand, reads more like a series of excuses for doing nothing (or perhaps I have watched too much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/yesminister\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Yes Minister<\/a>). So I guess that is that.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightbluetouchpaper.org\/2007\/10\/29\/government-ignores-personal-internet-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Clayton&#8217;s blog here<\/a> (he was one of the advisors to the Lords committee), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/10\/30\/ukgov_cybercrime_response\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Register article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4739f573-2741-45f5-b563-ef5853d92feb\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/security\" rel=\"tag\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/house%20of%20lords\" rel=\"tag\">house of lords<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/internet\" rel=\"tag\">internet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July this year the House of Lords reported on personal internet security. I read the report and was impressed. I don&#8217;t agree with all of it, but I found it well-researched and mostly sensible. You can download it here [PDF]; I recommend it if you&#8217;ve not yet read the actual document. The UK Government&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/382-uk-government-resists-peer-pressure-on-internet-security.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK Government resists Peer pressure on internet security<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}