Privacy Conscious Age Verification - Dissertation It’s May 2026, and that means only one thing — dissertation time is finally over! 🎉 If you want to get straight into the links, have a look here For my final year project on BSc Forensic Computing & Security, I set out to tackle a problem that’s become increasingly relevant in the UK: how do you verify someone’s age online, without making them hand over their entire identity? ...
Another University Reading Week has come and gone, so that means another Hackathon! This time, Jessica Long, Tom Arnett, Oskar Riches and I shifted our focus, creating a game rather than a traditional software project. The constraints were clear: it had to be a game played entirely on a single screen. We decided to build a multiplayer Geometry Dash-esque game controlled using phone motion controls! I focused on the backend, architecting a Python FastAPI service. I utilised WebSockets for robust, low-latency, two-way communication between players and the orchestration server handling sessions and dataflow. ...