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Today so far…
…TBC Yeaaaaah, it all gets a bit hazy after ripping up the living room rug and laundering it. Plus another two loads of laundry and serving dinner. I think I need a drink.
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Hot on the heels of #ChatControl and in the name of “identity” and “consumer choice” the EU seeks the ability to undetectably spy on HTTPS communication; 300+ experts say “no” to #Article45 of #eIDAS #QWAC
There’s an old British political joke that goes: “Why is there only one ‘Monopolies Commission’?” The joke can be updated or localised to suit reader tastes: …etc, but the point of the joke is to poke fun at (generally) there being only one authority to oversee monopoly and competition in any given nation — and…
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Advertising™ is the worst thing which can happen to any User™ – worse than oppression, surveillance, prison, capitalism, or democracy. And the worst form of Advertising™ is “Relevant” advertising, or as SPAs call it: Targeted™
I wrote this 2 years ago and it is still massively relevant to zealots in the privacy debate. This thread is unrolled here in another post in this blog.
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I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars | from October; this sounds so familiar for no terribly explicable reason
I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I’ve made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons. Let’s talk about why happened and why it’s a disgrace that it was even possible.…
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When you are using federated social networking you start to need new tools, like “something to track whether a friend’s server has disconnected from the federation without telling you.”
Federated software is the worst of both worlds, combining what is bad about centralisation with what is bad about distribution and magnifying both: A lill while ago, I found out that I had been disconnected from a friend of mine, as the server I was on, had defederated from the server her was on. Thing…
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Important History Lesson: the 2019 Kazakhstan Government’s attempt to man-in-the-middle all their citizens’ HTTPS requests
For absolutely no reason whatsoever it seems a really good time to remind people of 2019 where the tinpot-totalitarian Kazakhstan government decided that the Internet was so dangerous to their continued existence that it was necessary to spy on all their citizens’ web communication. They basically said: we will require all Kazakhs to use Web…
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Constructive start to the day…
Toddler demanding that daddy draw with crayons.
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That feeling when the darling toddler eats two entire Weetabix – except for the last spoonful…
It’s fine. Really. <splotch into compost bin>
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#DinnerForBreakfast: overnight slow cooked lamb shoulder with root vegetables and homemade wholemeal bread.
It’s the time of year when having a solid meal in the morning sets you up for the day. The easiest way to do this is batch cooking and slow cooking which helps avoid having to do heavy cooking at night…
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SEC Charges SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer with Fraud, Internal Control Failures | Soon we get to see all the “liability will fix software and architecture insecurity” folk explaining how they “meant it to work differently”
Some people believe that having senior leadership on the legal hook for [liability for] security failures will make everyone’s lives better; my suspicion is that those people haven’t thought through to the reality of what will happen to the leadership ecosystem, let alone any other area of potential error and unexpected behaviour. Washington D.C., Oct.…