Draft:Terence Eden

Terence Eden (often known as @EdenT) is a British Cybersecurity researcher. employed by the UK Civil Service. He is known for his work as a computer scientist, hacker , creating QRpedia and for open sourcing the UK's COVID-19 app. He regularly contributes to the BBC on the subject of solar panels.

Civil Servant
In 2020 st NHSX he was involved in the production of the UK's COVID-19 contact tracing app, helping to open source the beta and live versions. He promoted the use of open standards within the NHS and caused controversy by suggesting healthcare workers might quit over IT issues.

He was previous the head of Open Standards for the UK Government where he implement OpenDocument Format for official documents.

Cyber Security
Eden is an ethical hacker who has received bug bounties from Google , Samsung    , Twitter  , and others.

As part of his security work he investigated large-scale spam on Twitter , security of Bluetooth OBD protocols   , how attackers could misuse HTML's feature , the security of various IoT devices , and whether BMW's in-car APIs was secure.

In 2014, he disclosed security flaws in the websites of the UK Parliament, the NHS , and the Department of Education.

In 2014, he disclosed security flaws in the websites of the UK Parliament, the NHS , and the Department of Education.

Mona Lisa on the blockchain
In a self-described  prank , Eden used the Verisart Blockchain to claim that he painted the Mona Lisa. As has been noted by several academics publications, this undermines tackling art theft using a blockchain, demonstrates that it is impossible to trust the provenance of NFTs , makes it difficult to assess the usefulness of digital certificates , and weakens the arguments for other uses of IP on blockchains.

In Computing

 * 2011 - Built the QRpedia Project for Wikimedia UK . In 2012 it was nominated for a prize at Mobile World Congress


 * 2012 - Created a proposal for a new HTTP Code - this came to be known as 451
 * 2014 - Added power symbols to the Miscellaneous Technical block of Unicode
 * 2015 - Produced the first piece of Interactive Fiction to make use of multiple Twitter accounts. The game received several positive reviews with The Guardian comparing it favorably to "Call of Duty"
 * 2017 - Editor of the HTML5.3 standard


 * 2018 - After signing an open letter against Google's AMP project, he was invited to join its advisory board , a position he held for several years . He would later resign from having expressed dissatisfaction with Google's position
 * 2020 - Published the source code for the NHS's COVID-19 Contact tracing app

Published works

 * 2014 - Unicode Proposal 14.009
 * 2016 - HTTP 451
 * 2021 - HTML 5.3
 * 2023 - Exploring the visualization of hierarchical cybersecurity data within the Metaverse

Recognition
Terence both is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and has been recognized as a Chartered IT Professional by the British Computer Society.

He was appointed to the board of OpenUK and elected to the Chair of the BCS Open Source Special Interest Group