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Apathy and Arsenic: a Victorian Era lesson on fighting the surveillance state

DjangoCon Europe 2019 · April 21, 2019

Lilly Ryan compares Victorian England’s widespread use of arsenic with modern mass collection of personal data. Arsenic was cheap, useful, attractive, and largely ignored until public education, scientific understanding, safer alternatives, consumer pressure, and sustained political action reduced its everyday use; similarly, privacy harms range…

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Don't Look Back in Anger: Wildman Whitehouse and the Great Failure of 1858

DjangoCon Europe 2018 · May 25, 2018

Lilly Ryan uses the 1858 transatlantic telegraph cable as a case study in technical failure and poor teamwork. Chief electrician Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse ignored the advice of the younger physicist William Thomson, secretly increased the cable’s voltage after launch, and helped destroy the cable…

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hunter2: A Symphony of Password Horror

DjangoCon US 2017 · September 6, 2017

Passwords have always been undermined by predictable choices, reused credentials, plaintext storage, restrictive policies, and the assumption that a password is enough to authenticate someone. Developers can reduce the damage by using salted, slow password hashing, HTTPS, multi-factor authentication—preferably hardware-backed U2F rather than SMS—multiple recovery…

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Apathy and Arsenic: a Victorian Era lesson on fighting the surveillance state

Don't Look Back in Anger: Wildman Whitehouse and the Great Failure of 1858

hunter2: A Symphony of Password Horror

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