"An introduction to the receipts." This is The Sovereign Auditor. A newsletter from the Isle of Man, published by someone who runs their own infrastructure because the alternative is trusting corporations whose business model is you. I’m Alan Wright. Director of The Haunted Lighthouse Limited. Cyber Essentials
Apple's age verification isn't a safety feature. I asked them to prove it. When iOS 26.4 landed, it brought something new to UK users: mandatory age verification. Hand over a government ID scan to update your phone. The stated reason is child safety. The unstated
How HMRC spent £473 million with no competition and called it procurement. On 23 March 2026, HMRC published a contract award notice. It makes uncomfortable reading. The UK’s tax collection agency has handed Amazon Web Services a £472.8 million contract to migrate services from three Fujitsu-run datacenters and
Or: How a Gmail account compromised in 2019 became a national security liability in 2026. The Setup In late 2024, Kash Patel, just weeks away from being appointed FBI Director,was warned by officials that his communications were being targeted by Iranian actors. Thanks for reading The Sovereign Auditor! Subscribe
On 24 March 2026, the European Commission detected a cyberattack against its cloud infrastructure. Three days passed before it told anyone. The Commission confirmed the breach publicly on 27 March. The attacker had accessed at least one Amazon Web Services account used to host Europa.eu -- the platform serving
There are queues at the filling stations in Douglas this week. Local media on the Island is reporting diesel at 185p a litre in Castletown on Sunday -- against 137.9p at the pump a week earlier. The cause is straightforward: conflict around the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly
The European Commission, the institution that wrote GDPR, champions NIS2, and lectures member states on cybersecurity posture, has now been breached twice in ten weeks. And the timing, the targets, and the underlying architecture tell a story that should alarm anyone who believes digital sovereignty matters. January: The Administrative Plumbing
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