Fake police at Canary Wharf

A few days ago my father – a passionate amateur photographer – fell foul of Canary Wharf’s pretend police. His crime? Taking a photo of a shadow of a tree on a building. Initially it was two fake police which challenged him, demanding that he show them what photos he took on his camera. This […]

Marcus Povey

A few days ago my father – a passionate amateur photographer – fell foul of Canary Wharf’s pretend police. His crime? Taking a photo of a shadow of a tree on a building. Initially it was two fake police which challenged him, demanding that he show them what photos he took on his camera. This […]

Elgg 1.0 gatekeeper functions

This is just a quick post to introduce a pair of functions I wrote today while working on some of the Elgg 1.0 access control code. Namely, call_gatekeeper($function, $file = "") and callpath_gatekeeper($path, $include_subdirs = true), both of which return a boolean value. call_gatekeeper() This function tests to see whether it has the given method/function […]

Marcus Povey

This is just a quick post to introduce a pair of functions I wrote today while working on some of the Elgg 1.0 access control code. Namely, call_gatekeeper($function, $file = “”) and callpath_gatekeeper($path, $include_subdirs = true), both of which return a boolean value. call_gatekeeper() This function tests to see whether it has the given method/function […]

Most current IT security practices are a waste of time

While I do believe some of the analogies to be somewhat erroneous, I find myself broadly agreeing with the points raised in this article about current security practices. We in the industry often find ourselves focusing on the more technical issues – patches, penetration testing etc. These fall well within the IT department’s sphere of […]

Marcus Povey

While I do believe some of the analogies to be somewhat erroneous, I find myself broadly agreeing with the points raised in this article about current security practices. We in the industry often find ourselves focusing on the more technical issues – patches, penetration testing etc. These fall well within the IT department’s sphere of […]