You should know who is talking to you. On this site it is a computer program, working from a short list of government sources, with a person responsible for the result.
Who writes a page
A writing program drafts each page. It is allowed to use only the pages published by the agencies on our sources list. It may not use news stories, search results or anything it remembers. If it cannot open a source page, it cannot use it.
Every factual sentence carries a small number. The number points to the source it came from, listed beside the article, so you can open the original and read it yourself.
Who checks it
A second program reads the draft against the sources, sentence by sentence. It did not write the draft, and it can refuse it. A refused draft is not published.
A set of fixed checks also runs on every page before it goes up. A page with no source, a source outside the list, or a missing date stops there. No program can switch those checks off.
Where a person comes in
Right now a person reads and approves every page before it is published. As the system proves itself, that will move to regular spot checks, and this page will say so when it does.
What we will not do
- Invent a number, a quote or a reader’s story.
- Show you a made-up scam message as if it were real. When we wrote an example ourselves, the page says so.
- Call a named company a scam on our own say-so. We report what an agency has said and link to it.
- Give advice that goes past what the official source tells people to do.
- Ask you for anything except, if you want the weekly sheet by email, an email address.
When we get it wrong
We fix the page and record the change on the corrections page, with the date. Pages are not quietly edited or removed.
Not a government site
Cyber Safety Today is independent. It is not connected to, or endorsed by, any agency whose warnings it reports.