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You'd probably do it in the same way you'd do it with NAT, by using a stateful firewall blocking inbound connections (it's just that you get this for "free" with NAT)

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When I worked at the BBC, there was a substantial proportion of all traffic to the homepage which were just some devices checking for an internet connection. I believe as part of t…

Early in my career I was working for a well-known anti-virus firm. They had a crash of their Perforce servers and it turns out the backups were not good and the most recent good on…

I was recently in New York as a Brit and was really happy to see the OMNY system which just allowed me to use contactless to traverse the turnstiles (for everything but the JFK Sky…

There isn't one - the session identifier is an example of an opaque token

There are more ways to quantify impact than money.

When joining my current company I said in the negotiation phase that I'd like to do a 4 day week in exchange for 80% of the offered salary. They agreed.

Rutger Bregman in a big picture build a better world way. Shon Faye in the lens of individual liberty.

Culture Shift | UX/UI Product Designer / VP Sales / Head of Success / Business Development Manager | Manchester, UK ONSITE | Full-time Culture Shift are a tech-for-good SaaS provid…

You're confusing TW with TWh. If running at full capacity that would be an additional 8760 TWh generated every year. Of course it won't be 100% utilised but it takes more of a chun…

Consent isn't the only basis you can use for processing data under GDPR

Freehold houses aren't as common as you think, especially in London. Across England about a third of houses are leasehold.

Utopia for Realists, by Rutger Bregman

IANAL - but no, you definitely don't. What you do need to have in place is safeguards that any data on EU customers not hosted in the EU/EEA is subject to the same safeguards/level…

I'm guessing the mansion was Kingswood Warren, where BBC Research was based before cuts relocated them to London: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/

Point 1 isn't true. You've been able to send personal data (PII being the specific US legal term) to the US no problem - as long as you had "standard contractual clauses" (SCCs) as…

I don't think you can group Europe all as one. For example, in the UK credit cards give "section 75" protection which means it's often better to use a credit card than a debit one.…

It also included a serial number following the date part of 001 (also 002, etc)

because Log4J is also used by libraries. Which means you can configure the log level and capture logs from libraries and dependencies you use in a global configuration.

Fortunately this is the default in JavaScript world with both Yarn and NPM supporting lockfiles which have hashes and pinned versions. The problem is the sheer volume of dependenci…

At present, a walk-up (no advance booking) peak-time first class ticket from Liverpool to London is £255. Standard class is £171. A walk-up off-peak standard class ticket is £66.10…

would driving data/telemetry be categorised as personal data under GDPR? I assume cars could have multiple drivers so unless there's a clear way of deriving the person from the dat…