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Adventures in Windows Firewall Whitelisting

2020-12-282020-12-20 — Posted inPrivacy, Software — 6 min read

Why I’m banning all unknown connections out of my PC, and some of the tools that help: the Windows Firewall Notifier and Windows Firewall Control.

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The Credential Stuffing Threat is Real

2020-11-092020-11-08 — Posted inTechnology — 9 min read

After recently reviewing my privacy settings for Microsoft, I noticed something that was both alarming and reassuring.

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Time for Client Certificate Logins

2020-05-112020-05-08 — Posted inBrowser, Software, Technology — 8 min read

I can log in to a server over SSH without a password, just by using certificates. Why can’t I do this on websites?

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Convenient Banking Security

2020-04-202020-04-11 — Posted inTechnology — 6 min read

Offering some suggestions to Nationwide building society for how they could make their decent security more convenient.

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“Smart” Labelling & Legislation

2020-03-182020-03-27 — Posted inPolitics, Technology — 9 min read

I think the time has come for adapting legislation and applying consumer warning labelling to smart technology. I have a go at explaining how I’d do this

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The EuroS&P Experience

2019-07-012020-03-27 — Posted inPersonal, PhD Diary, Science, Travel — 16 min read

I recently attended the EuroS&P conference, and the co-located EuroUSec workshop. This year both were held in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Internet Censorship and Age Verification

2019-05-132020-03-27 — Posted inPolitics, Privacy, Technology — 10 min read

The UK government will enact a law that requires online providers of pornography to vet the age of their users. As I see it, this poses some very real problems.

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Hiding the EV Owner in Vivaldi

2017-12-122020-03-27 — Posted inBrowser, Design, Software, Technology — 6 min read

Install the mod in this blog post to get rid of the EV site owner name in Vivaldi. It’s not quite as useful as you might initially think.

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