Subscribers to this blog may well already have noticed that various symbian.org web sites will be shutting down on Friday. This blog, secblog.symbian.org, isn’t specifically mentioned; it is hosted at a free provider (actually sfsecurity.wordpress.com) so there’s no particular need for it to be closed, but the domain name may well be redirected along with the rest of the symbian.org subdomains.

Perhaps more to the point: this Friday will be the last working day for most Symbian Foundation staff, including me, so it won’t be appropriate for me to blog in Symbian’s name after that. I am planning to export the existing content from here though, and continue this blog* under another banner. I do want to say a few words about the Gawker Media breach while that’s still fresh, so I’ll do that here, and then update you on the new home for the blog before Friday.

* probably more accurate to say “restart this blog” as my last post was in July 😉

This week we’ve published the first full version of the Symbian Platform Security Roadmap and Strategy. It’s by no means set in stone, so any and all comments and suggestions are welcome (either in the Security forum or using the comment facility on the wiki page).

I have taken some liberties with the format and tagged on a longish “wish list” of items Open for Contribution at the end. I’d particularly like to draw attention to the last four, which are opportunities for concerned individuals or organisations to address some consumer protection issues (which our traditional contributors probably won’t address).

I did allude to this six months ago, but this time I’ll be shorter and more to the point: 🙂

• Notarised Call Recording
  how to hold faceless utility companies to account?
• Pre-Advice of Premium-Rate Charges
  think twice before giving your money away?
• Privacy Labels
  how not to embarrass yourself on social networking sites?
• Vendor Relationship Management
  how to do e-commerce on your terms?

Volunteers welcome 😉