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          <rev user="Admin" timestamp="2017-05-15T10:37:59Z" comment="Link to new LPWAN Security page" contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">==Welcome to the Franklin Heath Ltd Wiki==
This site hosts the wiki version of the book [[Symbian OS Platform Security]], which was previously published on [http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/ the Symbian Foundation developer site].

We also host pages on the [[Enigma|War II Enigma Machine]], [[HW 25/22|Bletchley Park]] and our [http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.franklinheath.enigmasim Android Enigma Simulator].

&lt;p style=&quot;border:2px solid green;padding:1em&quot;&gt;Latest New Content: [[LPWAN Security Features|Low-Power Wide Area Networking Security Features]]&lt;/p&gt;

Please consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents Mediawiki User's Guide]
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