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The Surveillance Party Redux
TL;DR Details of how the Labour party used an ersatz SIGINT operation against it’s own (prospective) members and supporters have come to light in the Forde Inquiry. This provides confirmation that the National Executive Committee (NEC) were excluding people for political expression on social media that didn’t align to their chosen ideology. Background Almost six […]
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Tags: Corbyn, exclusion, Facebook, Forde, Labour, politics, purge, report, SIGINT, Snowden, social media, twitter
Originally published internally 15 Dec 2015: I recently came to a realisation that every hire I’ve made has been for an aptitude to change rather than a given set of skills. This makes my most important interview question ‘how do you keep up to date with tech?’. Tech is changing all the time. I constantly […]
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Tags: Feedly, news, Pinboard, rss, twitter
The Surveillance Party
TL;DR The UK Labour Party has been running an ersatz signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation to identify and exclude members and supporters that they don’t want voting in their leadership election; people who under some sort of criteria are identified as enemies of the party. This should be terrifying, as the difference between enemy of the […]
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Tags: #LabourPurge2, Corbyn, enemy, exclusion, Facebook, Labour, politics, purge, SIGINT, Snowden, social media, state, twitter
I got an email from my bank yesterday telling me that they’re rolling out two factor authentication (2FA) to protect their my money from fraudsters. It looks like a pretty standard one time password (OTP) based scheme that will have a choice between mobile and physical tokens. They’re being pretty inflexible about the deployment model […]
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Tags: 2FA, banking, identity, NFC, online, OTP, security, twitter, user experience, UX
Identity Providers – Twitter
Federated identity seems to have sneaked up on us. A couple of years back federated identity was some huge enterprisey thing that was costly and took time to implement. Then a bunch of service providers started to be identity providers, but there were no relying parties making the whole effort somewhat useless. Now it seems […]
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Tags: federated, federation, identity, oauth, OpenID, PeerIndex, persona, PlanCa.st, twitter
BlackBerry OS 5
One of the side effects of getting a new machine was that I used BlackBerry Desktop for the first time in ages. When it started up I was offered an upgrade to the newer 5.x OS, which I went ahead with (luckily I wasn’t in a hurry). Here’s my experience of running the new OS […]
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Tags: 5, 8900, battery, blackberry, curve, os, SplashID, twitter, upgrade
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