Metadata Equals Surveillance
Lots and lots of people effectively demolished that trivialization, but the arguments are generally subtle and hard to convey quickly and simply. I have a more compact argument: metadata equals...
View ArticleBoredom
My grandfather taught me that. One afternoon when I was seven I complained to him of boredom, and he batted me hard on the head. He told me that I was never to use that term in his presence again, that...
View ArticleMovember First
This post is different from all the other ones, as the topic I will discuss today has nothing to do with software engineering, computer science, free/open source software, or academia. Instead, it has...
View ArticleTalk at the University of Kent
A few weeks ago, on the 31st of October, I gave a talk at the University of Kent in Canterbury. In about one hour I presented the research that lead to my PhD dissertation, and discussed future work,...
View ArticleXACDL, a DSL for XACML
Last week, I found myself having to write a lot of XACML policies and XACML requests at work, for a new project I am working on. I quickly found out that writing XACML by hand is dull, boring, and...
View ArticlerbacDSL at CodeGeneration 2014
This Wednesday, I will be talking about rbacDSL at Code Generation 2014, in Cambridge (UK, not MA). I will give an overview of rbacDSL’s features as well as an interactive demo, where the audience may...
View ArticleBack from Code Generation 2014
Last Friday evening, I came home after three days in sunny Cambridge, where I had the pleasure to give a talk at Code Generation 2014. This is a very quick summary of my impressions. Code Generation is...
View ArticleGoogle Announces Project Zero
From Google’s online security blog: Security is a top priority for Google. [...] We’re hiring the best practically-minded security researchers and contributing 100% of their time toward improving...
View ArticleNew SSL certificate
For a while now, I have been using an SSL certificate signed by CAcert.org for this blog. CAcert.org is a community-owned certificate authority, that can issue free certificates to the public. However,...
View ArticleBiFlux-mode: an Emacs major mode for BiFlux
I have recently been playing around with BiFlux, a language to express bidirectional transformations of XML documents developed at NII, Japan. The language is great, because it is a much simpler...
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