Rory Stewart

Cool.

See you in a bit.

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March is the month of forms and figures, tax returns, renewals, end of year accounts, transactions containing more of our money and identity than we realise.

And this is only going to become more true with AI.

We think of security risks as big and dramatic, but increasingly not.

They're creeping in through the ordinary, an email that looks plausible, a link that feels routine.

That's why I've been using NordVPN to close the gap.

The first answer, Lorcan, is...

We'd be bluffing if we said we completely knew because internet's down often, telephone's down often.

It's really difficult talking to people in Iran.

An Iranian friend of mine managed to get through to his mother yesterday

Another one of my neighbors managed to talk to someone in Tehran.

So what am I hearing from them?

There's a random anecdotal.