Michæl Brunton-Spall

@bruntonspall

Civil Servant, Troublemaker at large, Security Wonk, Author, Speaker, Father, Geek and Nerd.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
brunton-spall.co.uk
Joined February 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Dec 2020

    Just sent out a Solarwinds special of CyberWeekly. Nearly 6000 words and links to 12 bits of further reading. Read it and subscribe here. (Most weeks aren't this long and comprehensive!)

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  2. Feb 28

    Cyberweekly #138 - Cyberarms is a technical topic by Published after "minor technical hiccups"

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  3. Feb 28

    I once managed to send Cyberweekly #8 twice because early on I wasn’t tracking it very well. Today’s newsletter set itself as #7, which is going to make recovering it ... fun

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  4. Feb 28

    Things I’ve learnt today. Even on 1 person projects, you can’t have enough unit tests When you write code that arranges by “last updated”, things get funky in prod when you export and import data in bulk

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  5. Feb 28

    Cyberweekly today is delayed due to dual issues. 1. I rewrote the software behind where I compile my links. Works in dev, but fell over in prod when I launched the newsletter. 2. I left it until 10 minutes before I had to make Sunday roast to launch 🤦🏻‍♂️

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  6. Retweeted
    Feb 28
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    It is false, and it has been banned. As far as I can tell, the advertisers claim affiliate fees for successful clicks and installs. So it is worth it for them, even if the user uninstalls.

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  7. Feb 28

    Those adverts on Twitter. You know the ones, with the puzzle containing lava, water and gold coins etc. What’s the deal there? Not one advert actually has that game. And I’d play that game; but if I click through to see a crap game, what gives? Is it false advertising? Why?

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  8. Feb 27

    Of course, by community, I mean “Internet personalities” which doesn’t represent the real world community any more than the conference speaker does, or the podcaster personalities do.

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  9. Feb 27

    The communities are fun, but US focused, so timings often don’t fit with my schedule. There’s not yet a good “digital transformer” community, and only a nascent cybersecurity community. But the innovation/VC community is on there and super interesting to listen to.

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  10. Feb 27

    I got clubhouse a few weeks ago and I’m kind of torn on it. I love the live audience aspects that allow speakers to bring someone up to contribute to what is otherwise talkradio/podcast. But having to listen to things live at specific times is just not how my brain/life works

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    Feb 27
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    I built a thing to help!

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  12. Feb 27

    Huh. I joined Twitter 13 years ago today, so back in 2008. I wish Twitter had shown me my first few tweets so I could see what it was like

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  13. Feb 23

    Amazing thread. This is true not just for teaching but for meetings and for talks as well. I don’t know how to fix the conference talk though, I always feel like I’m talking into empty space and my talks suffer for it.

    So I've been stuck on the camera policy for my Zoom classes. I totally get the worries about student privacy and invasiveness. But I also know that my teaching gets radically worse when I'm facing mostly all black squares. So this time, I tried complete honesty. Report-thread:
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  14. Feb 14

    Discovered that the Google accounts that I pay for, for my kids, are not able to use Google’s FamilyLink, are not able to join a Google classroom and so on. To use those services, I would need to create a free gmail account instead of the managed accounts. Why do I pay again?

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  15. Feb 14

    Cyberweekly #136 - It’s about ethics in cybersecurity

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  16. Retweeted
    Feb 11

    Being a principal engineer means just trying to get everyone to choose more boring technology choices.

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  17. Retweeted
    Feb 12

    ...or it will happen.

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  18. Retweeted
    Feb 12

    ’s thread on the bullshit article on the $50 vax website is dead right in identifying both the complexity of building govtech and the continued complete lack of understanding mainstream media has for tech...

    I see we're talking about volunteer vaccination websites again, thanks to this (imho) irresponsible NYT article about "building a new [vaccination website] for $50". Some observations and references:
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    Feb 12

    SURVEY CALL: Are you a CISO? Do you communicate with the Board about cyber security of your organisation? WE NEED YOUR INPUT. Please take a moment to fill out our survey. Your involvement will directly contribute to improvements to UK CybSec practice.

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  20. Feb 12

    I’m taking a week off of work for half term. I have just ended up sending 2 separate emails with notes for my team, both of which are about 6 pages long. Apparently brevity is apparently something that I think happens to other people!

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    Feb 10

    I'm looking for a Chief Architect to help me modernise one of the most complex IT estates in the UK

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