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30 Dec 2020 Britain’s oldest conservative think tank has highlighted a series of flaws with Boris Johnson’s EU deal, suggesting Leave supporters should not delude themselves about it being a proper Brexit. The Bow Group, one of the most influential conservative groups in Britain during the Thatcher years but increasingly critical of the Conservative Party as an institution as it has listed left, has released a list of ten major issues with Johnson’s treaty. Not least of these is the incre...

Call it bizarre but the recently finalised Brexit deal includes a now-defunct email software called Netscape Communicator and outdated encryption standards for containing DNA profile information between the concerned countries.Security ...

Alister Jack insisted the deal is fantastic for Scotland THE Scottish Secretary was accused of “desperately spinning” during an interview on Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal this morning, insisting it is “fantastic” and brushing off concerns from fishermen’s groups. On BBC’s Good Morning Scotland Alister Jack was invited to discuss the deal before today’s Commons vote. The agreement is expected to pass after receiving support from the Brexiteer ERG group, with Labour set to be wh...

BBC News By Cristina Criddle image copyrightGetty Images image captionJames Barksdale was the CEO of Netscape from 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999 References to decades-old computer software are included in the new Brexit agreement, including a description of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as being "modern" services. Experts believe officials must have copied and pasted chunks of text from old legislation into the document. It also recommends using systems that are ...

Netscape Makes Baffling Appearance in Brexit Trade Deal Share Netscape logo RIP (Image: Netcape/Wikipedia) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. It’s been four years since the laborious process of pulling the UK out of the European Union began, and one would expect the language in th...

Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 07.40 EST The EU-UK Brexit deal refers to defunct decades-old computer software such as Netscape Communicator as “modern”, raising suspicions that some of the text may have been copied and pasted in. Online commenters gleefully shared the observation that page 921 of the painfully birthed trade agreement refers to Netscape Communicator – released in June 1997 – and Mozilla Mail as being “modern e-mail software packages” . A section on encryption tech...

The Brexit deal calls for DNA profiles to use a 20-year-old email app Share this story The mammoth, last-minute deal that will govern the United Kingdom and European Union’s trade relations going forward post-Brexit has been finalized in the nick of time. But some security researchers have noted some puzzling aspects of the deal, including mentions of the defunct, 23-year old Netscape Communicator email software and recommendations of outdated encryption standards. Just in case you forget wh...

Last modified on Mon 28 Dec 2020 23.37 EST Experts are still poring over the 1,246-page Brexit trade deal, but the devil is always in the detail. Dozens of UK-EU committees overseeing all aspects of the deal will now have to be set up, committing the UK and the EU to semi-permanent Brexit negotiations. New business travel rules will mean fashion models and musicians may need work visas for Europe. And the economic damage from restoring trade barriers previously demolished could be felt for year...