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Monday, 6th August 2018

Analyzing US Election troll tweets with Datasette

FiveThirtyEight published nearly 3 million tweets from accounts associated with the Russian “Internet Research Agency”, based on research by Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren at at Clemson University.

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Analyzing US Election Russian Facebook Ads

Two interesting data sources have emerged in the past few weeks concerning the Russian impact on the 2016 US elections.

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OWASP Top 10 2007-2017: The Fall of CSRF. I was surprised to learn recently that CSRF didn’t make it into the 2017 OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities (after featuring almost every year since the list started). The credited reason is that web frameworks do a good enough job protecting against CSRF by default that it’s no longer a top-ten problem. Defaults really do matter.

# 10:02 pm / csrf, owasp, security

How to Read an RFC. An extremely useful guide to reading RFCs by Mark Nottingham. I didn’t know most of the stuff in here.

# 10:38 pm / mark-nottingham, rfc

Faust: Python Stream Processing (via) A new open source stream processing system released by Robinhood, created by Vineet Goel and Celery creator Ask Solem. The API looks delightful, making very smart use of Python decorators and async/await. The initial release requires Kafka but they plan to support multiple backends, hopefully including Redis Streams.

# 10:51 pm / python, streaming

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