Simon Elvery

Stories for @abcnews | Organising @HacksHackersBNE | Participating in | Former @risj_oxford Journalist Fellow | @[email protected]

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

I’d say my tweet to typo ratio is approx. 1:1.

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

Verifying myself: I am drzax on https://t.co/tqit77mtOZ. -oaiapNzAqKfbwaWhFZIanjzdvZg4s8Dl1W7 / https://t.co/taRKocaglC

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

Optus hack renews calls for better protection of customers and their personal data https://t.co/N2ZaAklfHc

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

@anthonyspiteri I haven't seen any suggestion social engineering was involved here.

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

What the anonymous 'senior figure' from Optus describes here doesn't really sound like 'human error' to me. Human error is a single person accidentally doing something they shouldn't out of error or naivety. https://t.co/rCU20NZ6Fw

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

@anthonyspiteri @Asher_Wolf @DarknetDiaries Absolutely, it's possible for a single person to, as you say, 'open many doors'. What I'm saying is that it's a systemic failure if that weak link isn't identified and the associated risks mitigated. Especially when we're talking about a system of this level of sensitivity.

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

Not too dissimilar to making recommendations that consumers do more to protect their own personal privacy in the wake of a breach which is very clearly not the fault of any individual consumer. https://t.co/7Wq2kIP5wQ

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

Good personal digital privacy practices are important, but this response to a major breach which is anything but the fault of individual practices is silly. How about proposing new regulation of business to reduce potential for future leaks?

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

It's also worth pointing out that, sure, while 'human error' is often *part* of the cause for these sorts of breaches, blaming an individual is rarely helpful and often looks like scapegoating for PR.

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

It also wouldn't hurt if governments came up with some ideas for how people affected by identity theft and other scams could be better protected. Personal responsibility can only go so far when there are systemic problems that need to be addressed.

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

Good personal digital privacy practices are important, but this response to a major breach which is anything but the fault of individual practices is silly. How about proposing new regulation of business to reduce potential for future leaks?

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

You come at the king …

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

@arielbogle Why are they using the Mastercard logo in the title image?

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

I'm looking forward to being on this panel later this month and especially keen to see all the ideas that come out of the Dark Ads Hackathon: https://t.co/ZL2OCEGHz8

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

@Telstra has time travelled 'a few seconds' into the future to deliver this graph to me so I can budget my data usage over the next 19 days to make sure I don't run out of infinity. What a time to be alive.

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

The box of framed Time covers in this shot makes it art.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

NEWS: DOJ's new filing includes. photo of the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8.

https://t.co/nm567c96bi

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

As if you needed another reason to read Ordinary Matter. Here’s one anyway:

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

Just because you can does not mean you should.

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

Pretty good transport ratios this week.

[Simon Elvery @drzax]

@cameronwilson @BenjaminMillar we will never, until you admit the truth about q