CESG - Evaluates and certifies the level of trust that may be placed in IT security features. Includes a list of certified products.
The Information Commissioner's Office - Office responsible for the enforcement of the Data Protection Act 1998, and also responsible for Freedom of Information. Offers guidance on principles of data protection and advice on compliance. Formerly known as the Data Protection Commissioner.
Office of Surveillance Commissioners - Provides information about the roles and responsibilities of those who authorise and conduct covert surveillance operations and covert human intelligence sources.
TIGER Information Governance Portal - Portal dedicated to improving information governance and data protection standards in the NHS, Social Care, Local Government and other organisations in the UK.
National Smart Card Authentication Project - National Project detailing the authentication processes required to obtain a smart card. Contains Process Maps, Publications, Authentication Levels, FAQ's and contact details.
FNX - Bridges the gap between legal and programming departments, helping ensure corporate web sites and systems comply with the Data Protection Act.
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Information Security In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Information Security
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Information Security Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Information Security
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Information Security "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Information Security
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Information Security We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Information Security
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Information Security Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Information Security
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Information Security I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Information Security
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Information Security If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Information Security
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Information Security "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Information Security
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Information Security Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Information Security
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Information Security "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Information Security
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Information Security I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Information Security
