Collaborate Disseminate
How best to punish spammers? I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. And that’s when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime – robbing me of my time –
I didn’t intend for a bunch of this week’s vid to be COVID related, but between the breach of an anti-vaxxer website and the (unrelated) social comments directed at our state premier following some pretty simple advice, well, it just kinda turned out that way. But
I broke Yoda’s stick! 3D printing woes, and somehow I managed to get through the explanation without reverting to a chorus of My Stick by a Bad Lip Reading (and now you’d got that song stuck in your head). Loads of data breaches this week and
How many times have you heard the old adage about how nothing in life is free:
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product
Facebook. LinkedIn. TikTok. But this isn’t an internet age thing, the origins go back way further, originally being used
It’s very much a last-minute agenda this week as I catch up on the inevitable post-travel backlog and pretty much just pick stuff from my tweet timeline over the week 😊 But hey, there’s some good stuff in there and I still managed to knock out
And we’re finally done with this trip. 26 days, 14 different accommodations, 5,146km of driving through 4 states and the last 4 weekly vids all done on the road. Travel is great, but right now going home is even better 😊 Next week’s vid will
11 years now, wow 😲 It’s actually 11 and a bit because it was April Fool’s Day in 2011 that my first MVP award came through. At the time, I referred to myself as “The Accidental MVP” as I’d no expectation of
Continuing the rollout of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to national governments around the world, today I’m very happy to welcome Poland to the service! The Polish CSIRT GOV is now the 34th onboard the service and has free and open access to APIs allowing them to query
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In a complete departure from the norm, this week’s video is the much-requested “cultural differences” one with Charlotte. No tech (other than my occasional plug for the virtues of JavaScript), but lots of experiences from both of us living and working in different parts of the
Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP’s Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Later in 2018, I did the same thing with the email address search feature used by Mozilla, 1Password and
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