Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture

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Author: Dr A. J. Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Lecture
On Sunday 09 Dec 2012, Chris Dennis wrote:
> The first ever HantsLUG Christmas Lecture was held on Saturday 1
> December in the Zepler Building at Southampton University.
>
> The speaker was Mike Bond (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mkb23/), of the
> Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he has been
> researching security in the banking system for 10 or more years.
>
> He gave us a talk on "Hacking bank cards: 10 years of tools." – a
> subject that sounded distinctly illegal to me. In fact the work on
> computer security done at Cambridge has been an important tool for
> improving the complex security measures that banks need to use.
> Although publicly criticising any attempts to break their systems, the
> banks do in fact cooperate with this type of research because it helps
> them to develop better ones.


Congratulations on getting a good speaker on an interesting topic, I'm only
sorry I was not able to attend. I look forward to the next year!

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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