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It's General Election Day 2017 - please vote

Here’s a photo of me trying to do a serious electoral face, and ending up just looking worried [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158721411170456&set=a.57066280455.133832.699710455&type=3&theater] . But I do think this is a serious election. I’m not

data

Journalists: update your iOS devices now

Today’s security update for Apple’s iOS devices [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/technology/apple-software-vulnerability-ios-patch.html] is a serious one: > One of the world’s most evasive digital arms dealers is believed to have been taking advantage of three security vulnerabilities in popular Apple products in

cyberattacks

Journalists under personal cyberattack

CNN is reporting that there have been cyberattacks targeted at major newspaper journalists [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/russia-hack-new-york-times-fbi/index.html] : > Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at The New York Times and other

hacking

Misreporting the TalkTalk hacking

Tom Morris does an excellent job of highlighting the flaws in the reporting of the TalkTalk hack [https://tommorris.org/posts/9396]: > What’s curious though is how the mainstream media have not really talked very much to security experts. Yesterday, I listened to the BBC Today programme—this

leweb

LeWeb: Tim Berners-Lee and the societal impact of the web

The inventor of the web has some serious concerns about its future — and some amazing tales about its past.

confidentiality

Morning Coffee Reading 16/7/14

Four good reads that I think are worth your coffee time this morning: * Looking for a job in journalism? Kevin Anderson, who recently landed a great one, has some really excellent advice for preparing for the journalism job interview [http://charman-anderson.com/2014/07/10/journalism-job-seekers-what-to-bring-to-the-interview/?utm_source=rss&

analytics

This guy analysed what data Buzzfeed is collecting about you - and you won't believe what he found…

Dan Barker’s been poking at the tracking javascript on Buzzfeed, and found some very interesting data being captured from quizzes [http://barker.co.uk/buzzfeediswatching]: > In other words, if I had access to the BuzzFeed Google Analytics data, I could query data for people who got to the

Saying Goodbye to Gmail

Last night I switched the e-mail hosting provider behind @onemanandhisblog.com from Gmail to Hover’s e-mail service [https://www.hover.com/email]. Why? Two reasons mainly: * I very rarely use webmail. Maybe I’m just showing my internet age, but the majority of my e-mail is done through Mail.

Journalism

Journalists: do not use Hotmail

Microsoft accesses a blogger’s e-mail without permission to track the source of a leak [http://recode.net/2014/03/20/blogger-psa-dont-use-microsofts-web-mail-to-receive-microsoft-leaks/] : > One of the revelations in this week’s case of a Microsoft worker who leaked pre-release Windows 8 software was that Microsoft accessed the Hotmail account of

online identity

Today we fight back against mass surveillance

Many of you will have seen something like this when you visit my blog today: [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/fight-back-2-3519.html] And I’m far from alone. Here’s Antony Mayfield’s blog [http://www.antonymayfield.com/2014/02/11/against-mass-surveillance-what-will-you-do-today/] : [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/

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Hacking your phone to hack your Instagram