Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

If HMG & NCSC want “to make the UK the safest place to live and work online” perhaps they can drop age verification and instead teach companies to back up their own data?

2025/07/23 06:05:54 BST

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company | BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gx28815wo

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