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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na.

@missiggeek.bsky.social

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She/her. Aka Miss IG Geek on other socials. Humanity in data, digitech-ethics, and misanthropology, occasional puffins. #ActuallyAutistic 🏳️‍🌈 Everything you know is actually way more complicated than you think

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · Nov 18

Woohoo, it’s getting busy around here! Hello new followers, thanks for joining the posse - FYI, I post about data protection, privacy, tech ethics, philosophical musings and puffin enthusiasm

Two Atlantic puffins in breeding plumage in a grassy cliff top, one is looking at the ground the other is looking at the first puffin

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 3d

The problem with an effective defence/protection is that after it’s been working fine for a while, people stop believing it was ever necessary at all. When added to an economic ecosystem that boosts/incentivises grift, fearmongering, divisiveness & suspicion, maladaptive cognitive bias runs rampant

Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 3d

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 3d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 3d

Interestingly, the only people I’ve ever heard speak disparagingly of Jilly Cooper’s novels, are people who have never actually read one.

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 3d

😭😭😭

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 3d

My all-time favourite was ‘Pandora’ - if you only ever read one JC novel, make it this one - with bonus art history education!

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 3d

I’m gutted that #JillyCooper has passed away - she wrote with great skill, humour and insight about the messiness of the human condition, creating three-dimensional characters that were sympathetic in spite of their flaws.

Goodbye Jilly. Thank you for many, many hours of entertainment

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 5d

Yep. Radium toothpaste, radium chocolate, radium condoms - some of which did actually contain radium and many fraudulent products which had random other toxic ingredients instead. History repeating itself with the Big Data Fairy.

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 6d

Though smartphones and soft-tokens have caused the the distinctions between processes to become somewhat blurred, it’s true.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 6d

As I learned it, something you know + another thing you know = 2SV (eg, secret word check, confirmation code sent to email) whereas MFA requires ‘know AND [have OR are]’ so, password and challenge-response token or biometrics. In the age of SSO, 2SV is weaker than MFA

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, probably!

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 6d

As it turns out, there’s a whole lot more to ‘thinking’ than simply fooling human observer into projecting anthropomorphic bias, but to be fair; in Turing’s time the field of neuroscience wasn’t up to much so it’s not his fault his test is a bit useless

American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 7d

Today is the 75th anniversary of Alan’s Turing’s paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" published in journal Mind where he proposed the question, "Can machines think?" – the Turing Test

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 6d

😂😂😂😂 savage and delicious

The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 7d

Directors at Autism Shrieks have reportedly spent an emergency meeting trying to placate their board after assistance was erroneously provided to autistic adult, Miya Wilkes, 30.

Whoops! Autism charity inadvertently helps autistic person

An autism charity has come under fire today after accidentally helping an actual autistic person, reports have indicated. Directors at Autism Shrieks have reportedly spent an emergency meeting…

thedailytism.com

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 6d

Can we please stop offering human sacrifices to appease the petty deities of commerce, it’s not as though that’s even an effective protection strategy, thanks

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules

Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040 * Business live – latest news Thames Water may not fully comply with rules on pollution of England’s waterways for as long as 15 years, according to a new plan by creditors who are scrambling to avoid the utility being forced into government administration. The creditors who in effect own Thames Water have said they will commit to paying fines for pollution, as well as writing off more of their loans and investing more in the company, in new proposals published on Thursday. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 6d

Yup. Bleak.

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 7d

Unless you stipulate, and verify secure coding practices, you won’t get them

It’s safest to assume that everyone on the internet is trying to buy, sell, shag or burgle you, until proven otherwise

Friction is a key component of security, eliminating it is a bad idea

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 7d

My #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth tips:

Effective due diligence requires more than a self-assessment questionnaire

A contract does not replace the need for assurance monitoring

Sending the password via the same channel as an encrypted file is largely pointless

2SV ≠ MFA

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 7d

#IrregularVerb: to kidnap

I suspend the usual due process requirements for detention in exigent circumstances

You fail to establish a convincing lawful basis for impromptu restriction of liberty

We protect national security from the threat of you

Those Bastards Over There are taking hostages

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 7d

So far, all the scoffing I’ve seen about the risks and flaws of this latest UK ID card proposal, has come from people in those demographics least likely to experience harassment, discrimination or disadvantage from mandatory ID.

Fortunately, the range of critics is more diverse

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 7d

Authoritarianism, hate-mongering, ignorance, and corporate sociopathy are real threats. Trans+ people are not - they just want to live their lives in peace and safety like anyone else.

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.

notinourname.org.uk

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 8d

Cui bono? Property developers and landlords who can afford indifference to the social costs of their plundering.

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 8d

Not-so-smart jewellery 🤦🏽‍♀️

endora bullshit @endora-bullshit.bsky.social · 9d

....i didn't realize this sort of thing was going on.....

i recommend *not* wearing a titanium ring with a lithium battery in it ?? and if it starts to swell while you're wearing it to absolutely not get on a plane ???

Daniel
@ZONEofTECH
Ahhh…this is…not good.

My Samsung Galaxy Ring’s battery started swelling. While it’s on my finger 😬. And while I’m about to board a flight 😬

Now I cannot take it off and this thing hurts.

Any quick suggestions @SamsungUK
@SamsungMobileUS
?

photo of side of ring showing swollen battery and photo of swollen red finger with the ring on

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · Feb 4

Knowledge-keeping is subversive. Remembering the stories they want to rewrite, to take from schools, to make dangerous to say, keeps our ancestors’ struggles alive. Keeping those embers lit so they can be blown back to life with a breath is power. Memory is power.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 8d

Although incompetence should be presumed before malice (Hanlon’s Razor), egregious incompetence is, in effect, indistinguishable from malice (Grey’s Law)

Oh hai #OnlineSafetyAct

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 8d

Yup.

We *will* see malicious AV spoofing;

An AV dataset *will* be leaked/nicked/traded;

Data errors *will* result in digital exclusion and damage

It’s a question of when, not if.

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 8d

It would require human welfare and dignity to be routinely considered as having value and therefore being part of the cost/benefit calculation.

I mean, yeah; which would be great but until that value can be represented in a spreadsheet, seems unlikely