Shabbir Azhar

Those who know don't tweet, and those who tweet don't know a thing...

[Shabbir Azhar @KingShabz]

Altitude vs AltiJUDE

[Shabbir Azhar @KingShabz]

Mainoo this morning

[Chris Littlewood @chrislittlewoo8]

Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.

I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.

They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.

We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.

Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.

Criminals will work around it.

Honest citizens will pay the price.

It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.

It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.

One breach and your life is exposed.

Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.

Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.

Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:

It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.

Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.

Centralise identity and you centralise failure.

Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain.
It starts as login.

It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.

It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.

It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.

It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.

It will centralise risk and outsource blame.

It will not stop fraud.

It will not stop illegal migration.

It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.

If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.

You do not need a national ID to do any of that.

We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.

Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.

Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.

[Shabbir Azhar @KingShabz]

Mainoo x Foden tonight

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Sir Bobby Charlton CBE, 1937-2023.

Words will never be enough.

[SPORTbible @sportbible]

As a parting gift to their manager, Napoli ultras gifted Luciano Spalletti his steering wheel and CD's they stole from his beloved Fiat Panda during protests in 2021 😂🚗

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, winner of record 3 World Cups and standard-bearer for ‘the beautiful game,’ has died at 82.

[Shabbir Azhar @KingShabz]

@NoContextLaughs @ViralVideoSaver

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Shocking footage of Milan’s Bakayoko in Milan’s downtown held at gunpoint by police cause taken for someone else.

Check when one of cop goes telling to the colleague searching him that it’s not the suspect but a Milan player, and the cop saying “WHO?!?”

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

UK Wholesale Gas is 38 pence a therm (year ahead).

This is down from 550 pence in February.

While your energy bills have gone up by 54%, the price of wholesale has fallen by 93%.

Daylight robbery.

[Shabbir Azhar @KingShabz]

@DieHardMMAPod Slug Rose

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

MAYHEM BETWEEN CHRIS ROCK AND WILL SMITH AT THE #Oscars https://t.co/265hGbsEDg

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

So much for the politics, but here’s where the economic numbers collide with the political narrative.
Because the tax cuts @rishisunak is boasting about today are quite literally reversing HIS OWN tax rises - by a bit.
The cut is only historic is because his hikes were historic!

[Fox Cricket @FoxCricket]

BREAKING

Australia cricket legend, Shane Warne, dies of ‘suspected heart attack’, aged 52.

Details: https://t.co/Q83t5FWzTb

[Troll Football Media @TrollFootball2]

New Zealand & Liverpool defender Meikayla Moore with the perfect hattrick of own goals against USA

✅Right foot
✅Header
✅Left foot

[Shabbir Azhar @KingShabz]

@Omar__105 I like him. Takes up the right positions, dictates a lot of the play, wants the ball, passes well with both feet. The pressure of a big club may change that.

[Shabbir Azhar @KingShabz]

@btsportufc O'Malley vs Cruz is a good test to see if one's ready for the big time and to see if one's not ready to give up the big time.

Poirier vs Chandler needs to happen as they were yapping at each other this year.