Manufacturers who sell TVs in the UK & want the TV to run BBC iPlayer (BBC Public Service live/on-demand TV app) have to get their TVs certified by us. There's a large suite of tests & technical requirements - a colleague just pointed out to me that those docs are public:

https://certification.bbctvapps.co.uk/docs/tv-specification/

TVs on UK sale now & marked with the iPlayer logo must support:
* TLS 1.2+
* Mutual TLS (client certs)
* HTTP/2+
* Service Workers
& lots more...those just caught my eye

I've been working on an automated triager for the frequent volumetric DDOS we see against www.bbc.com & www.bbc.co.uk.

The idea is to use our edge access logs (stored in BigQuery) to isolate & describe the attack traffic then recommend any additional mitigations/filters etc. It also gives us a database of DDOS metrics/sources we can reference.

Obviously I had to add the obligatory pew-pew map.

Involuntarily black
#nigcel
#whitesupremacy
#snowbunnyqueen

The #BBC is looking for a Head of Digital #Accessibility, with the role only open to #deaf, #disabled, and/or #neurodivergent applicants. Hybrid working, based at any UK BBC hub. Salary up to £110,000.

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Head-of-Digital-Accessibility/811220202/

In these troubled times, it’s nice to finally have a feel good, happy story 



We're recruiting a Networking-focussed Architect in my team at the BBC.

You'll need to be UK-resident for boring tax/legal reasons but this is (IMO) a cool role - working on both corporate/internal & public/peering networks for BBC media & web content, Cloud connections etc. across multiple sites/DCs and with our vendors.

Happy to try to answer Qs informally.

Please share, esp. if you know good people who might be interested.

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Lead-Architect-%28Network%29/810263002/

This is an awesome hack.

Looks like www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com are blocked in Turkmenistan (since this time last week).

We monitor traffic to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com per country & got alerts that daily requests from Angola have dropped off loads recently.

Looking at the Angola traffic split by network AS. AS36907 traffic looks suspicious! Spidey sense triggered...the "before" traffic was *way* too consistent.

Digging in to the logs, looks like they removed their Fortigates on 6th Sept. which'd been sending 343k req/day for www.bbc.co.uk/ , every single day!

Gotta love being on the internet!