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Terence Eden

(He/Him)
London
Covers:  Cybersecurity, privacy, open standards, open data, web, IOT, Internet of Things, digital culture, security, digital rights
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Terence Eden’s Journalist Portfolio

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Training Civil Servants with Hacking Skills

Training Civil Servants with Hacking Skills

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

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

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

GOV.UK — The world record for solving a scrambled Rubik's cube is 4.22 seconds. But what can this teach us about using AI in government?

Open Document Format in government: an update

Open Document Format in government: an update

GOV.UK — The Open Standards team was asked 4 years ago by the Open Standards Board to help government publish documents in a more open, transparent and accessible way. We've since made progress in achieving these objectives but we still have more ...

How we represent data when developing APIs

How we represent data when developing APIs

GOV.UK — At GDS, "make things open," is something you hear on a daily basis. In my new role as the GDS Open Standards Lead, I'm helping to make sure we do this, ensuring we choose the best open standards, and promote ...

The code behind the NHS Covid-19 App

The code behind the NHS Covid-19 App

NHS England and NHS Improvement Podcast — NHS Transformation Directorate - transformation to improve health and care for everyone

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

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

mozilla.org — Relying on external resources for your website is always fraught with risks. Learn how to protect your website and its visitors by using SRI to secure third-party content.

Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?

Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?

GOV.UK — CDDO's Securing Government Services team discuss the domain name system that allows people to easily find websites and other internet services. Here they question removing legacy services such as the .gb. domain

Solving an interesting problem with Sender Policy Framework records

Solving an interesting problem with Sender Policy Framework records

GOV.UK — The Securing Government Services team found and fixed a curious problem regarding email security

We want your feedback on using the DOI standard in government

We want your feedback on using the DOI standard in government

GOV.UK — The Data Standards Authority wants your feedback on proposals to adopt Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) as a government standard.

QR code security risks in the car park

QR code security risks in the car park

Naked Security — QR codes are a highly convenient way to link a physical object to a URL. Point your phone's camera at the 2D barcode and you're instantly taken to a website. But that's something which can have security consequences, as mobile guru Terence Eden explains.

Refreshing the Open Standards Principles

Refreshing the Open Standards Principles

GOV.UK — We have revised the Open Standards Principles to make it easier for departments to adopt open standards. The updated version of the principles uses clearer language and clarifies several important points.

Help us open up UK election data

Help us open up UK election data

GOV.UK — The Local Government Association (LGA) contacted the Open Standards Team and asked for our help to increase accessibility of election results. Why we need a standard for election data The LGA wants to promote an open and standardised format for ...

It's time to use ISO 8601 across government

It's time to use ISO 8601 across government

GOV.UK — The Open Standards Board has issued date-times and time-stamps guidance mandating the use of the ISO 8601 standard on UK government IT systems. ISO 8601 displays dates and times in order of increasing accuracy. For example, the stamp 2017-01-25T12:34:56+00:00 ...