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Terence Eden

(He/Him)
London
As seen in: HackerNoon, Naked Security, GOV.UK
Covers:  Cybersecurity, privacy, open standards, open data, web, IOT, Internet of Things, digital culture, security, digital rights
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Terence Eden’s Biography

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Terence Eden is an open technology expert and innovation consultant. He is an active security researcher, with bug bounties against Google, Twitter, Samsung, and others.

He is a long-time advocate of open source and open standards in government. He is an invited expert at the British Standards Institution.

He was formerly the UK Government's representative to the W3C and was an editor of the HTML5 specification.

He speaks around the world on open standards, open source software, and open dat…

Terence Eden’s Journalist Portfolio

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Training Civil Servants with Hacking Skills

Training Civil Servants with Hacking Skills

An apprentice in the Cabinet Office discusses why it is important to learn cybersecurity and hacking.

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Demonstrating the benefits of AI in government with the Rubik's Cube

Demonstrating the benefits of AI in government with the Rubik's Cube

The world record for solving a scrambled Rubik's cube is 4.22 seconds. But what can this teach us about using…

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Open Document Format in government: an update

Open Document Format in government: an update

The Open Standards team was asked 4 years ago by the Open Standards Board to help government publish document…

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How we represent data when developing APIs

How we represent data when developing APIs

At GDS, "make things open," is something you hear on a daily basis. In my new role as the GDS Open Standards …

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The code behind the NHS Covid-19 App

The code behind the NHS Covid-19 App

NHS Transformation Directorate - transformation to improve health and care for everyone

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Securing your CDN: Why and how should you use SRI | MDN Blog

Securing your CDN: Why and how should you use SRI | MDN Blog

Relying on external resources for your website is always fraught with risks. Learn how to protect your websit…

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This blog is written in en-GB

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By Terence Eden
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Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple declaration: HTML<!doctype html> <html lang=en-GB> There's a reason for that. It is more than the language I speak; it is the culture I live in, the way that I think, and the accent I use.
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There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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By Terence Eden
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Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to get more for less. But I'm still left wondering if this is massive overkill.
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The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System is a Waste of Time

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It can be hard running a small business. If you want to sell to a large organisation like the UK Government, there are forms to fill in, checks to comply with, tenders to bid on, and a hundred other things. Luckily, there's the RM6237 Low Value Purchase System to make everything better. If a department wants to buy something below a certain threshold, they can contact any of the registered suppliers and just buy it.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Only out of curiosity - and to see if there were any strange characters which deserved their own entry in Unicode.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Anything open source. I like WordPress, Markdown, and Git.

What's your favorite social network?

https://mastodon.social/@edent - much more fun than Twitter - and far fewer despots.
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