Category: History and security

August 5, 2025

Further Work on 17th Century Shorthand – Machine Learning for Palaeography

David Rogers explains our continued historical shorthand research work. Unfortunately I’m not in the US this year for the hacking conferences but I hope that next year I will be able to go and explain and demonstrate more of our groundbreaking work on reading 17th...

AI/History and security

March 3, 2022

History lessons 5: The game of defence and attack

Security is sometimes described as an art form – whether you’re breaking security or making something secure, you have to be creative. It is a continuous game or duel of wits that has played out throughout history from the physical enclaves of castles through to the hardware of connected devices.

History and security

November 5, 2021

History lessons 4: What to do when an anomaly is detected?

There are many tales from history where things have been detected that have led to plots being uncovered. Some of this has been driven by prior knowledge, sometimes the actors involved are already under suspicion in some way and in other cases it is pure chance and luck.

History and security

October 13, 2021

History lessons 3: Confusing the guards and what it means for future hardware chip design

Previously, I talked about how expensive defences can be subverted by a determined and clever adversary. This time I continue the theme of access, but consider the problem of confusion.

History and security

October 4, 2021

History lessons 2: Who has access?

History shows that in the Conwy castle case, the garrison were complacent – even though the Welsh had started to rebel the year before. The ‘trusted’ carpenter should have been let in on his own without anyone else and there should have been additional guards within the main castle such that the attackers were confined to the barbican itself, to be dealt with.

History and security

September 20, 2021

History lessons 1: Doing nothing in a hostile environment is never going to work out well

A second chance to enjoy David Rogers’ popular blog series — commissioned by on-chip monitoring experts UltraSoC — examining security through the ages and highlighting lessons for emerging and future technologies.

History and security

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