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Scientists have found a way to encrypt messages using common chemicals such as cola and mouthwash.
As hackers get more sophisticated in their cyber crime efforts we need to look to new technology to make our systems more secure, and potentially unhackable. So how can quantum physics help?
The acclaimed new movie The Imitation Game is based on the too-short life of Alan Turing, the British mathematician and “father” of computer science. But how true-to-life is it and what can we learn from…
We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood secret messages, or secrets and codebreaking of national importance. With a film, The…
Military intelligence has relied on observing and reading enemy messages since the earliest times of conflict. But it was during World War I that great leaps were made in the technology needed to intercept…
In the depths of night on August 5th 1914 the British Cable Ship Alert took the first significant action of World War I, severing the five German submarine cables that ran through the English Channel…
The massive release of the US National Security Agency (NSA)’s classified documents by Edward Snowden continues to raise questions about security. One of these documents deals with the NSA’s classified…
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Professor, Faculty of IT, Monash University
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Professor of Physics, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
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Professor in Physics, Griffith University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Professor of Digital Economy, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of Electronic Warfare Research, City, University of London
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
