Jason Hook's shiny new blog......

Apparently the EU is planning to develop a tool capable of reading/presenting obselete file formats. Sounds like a fun job if you can get it. Somewhere out there are lots of old cc:mail databases that would make interesting reading, wonder what I was emailing about in the late 1990's?

And Italy's police are warning us that more and more criminals are using VOIP (including Skype) to evade the law. The Beeb article states that the encryption protocol used by Skype is a secret the company refuses to share, and this may be reducing the effectiveness of law enforcement who rely on phone taps. I wonder how many of us law abiding types use Skype to make our day to day phone calls and how many landline users will switch when the UK Government starts recording information about the calls we are making?