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“How to monetize a Cryptographic method?” / “How to advance in your Infosec career?”
Pretty much the same advice applies to both; the cryptography & infosec industries are riven with people who did [something cool] once and who want to milk it forever, and … exceptions exist, but generally you will advance further because of what you do rather than for what you have done. Don’t sit on your…
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No One Should Have That Much Power | Mark Nottingham
> One of the assumptions built into these calls is that if the tech community would just nerd harder, a solution could be somehow magically found that preserved privacy and security while letting the ‘good guys’ have access. With all respect to the valuable work that law enforcement does to protect society, it’s equally as…
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Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them | Malcolm Coles
This is a hilarious step back into the Neanderthal days when people believed that they could tell others on the open web that it was not permitted to hyperlink to them. (excusing newspapers, which are obviously are a very special case that distinguishes them from normal websites) https://malcolmcoles.com/no-linking/
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Interview with Senior Rust Developer in 2023
How did I only now discover this? HT: dancol
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The Tao of Programming
This is a classic. I have a print edition. Many software development truths (and myths) from the 1960s and 70s are still alive today, if slightly mutated and less obvious to those for whom it is “just a job”. https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
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Aaron Sorkin to write film about how people are scum who should not be permitted to communicate with each other without oversight | The Guardian
> When asked whose responsibility that was, he replied: “Mark Zuckerberg.” …so Donald Trump is off the hook, then? https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/26/aaron-sorkin-january-6-film
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“WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections” | Mozilla want to make WhatsApp painful to use during elections, because people are scum
Yeah. Nah. This is a foolhardy, misconceived idea which will be trivially circumvented by motivated political actors (never underestimate a village hall filled with activists) whilst also undermining WhatsApp and other platforms’ positions on CSAM versus message privacy. Here’s a test: “First, Do Signal.” Our Letter To WhatsApp: WhatsApp needs to implement these product changes…
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Australian safety-types trying to work out how to force platforms to implement their will when lacking (not collecting) nationality or other information about their users
I have written about this previously in essays about Surveillance Compliance and law enforcement access; exactly the same issues arise regarding forcing platforms to know their customers in order to implement parochial censorship or surveillance, whilst simultaneously demanding that platforms collect less information about their users. Previously: https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/perspective-lawful-access-to-end-to-end-encrypted-communication-90e1955d5b8d
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A European Internet for European People!
I’m still faintly horrified to see parochial internet fragmentation being lauded as ever desirable by social activists. Just don’t mention that that is similar to what China wants. “…but that’s not comparable, we are the good guys!” No, no you’re not. https://chaos.social/@kik1/112336953148786845
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Here’s a fun idea: TikTok implements ActivityPub for US-based client IP addresses
It would cause regulatory headsplosion.
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Open Sourcing DOS 4 | Scott Hanselman’s Blog
“Today, in partnership with IBM and in the spirit of open innovation, we’re releasing the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license. There’s a somewhat complex and fascinating history behind the 4.0 versions of DOS, as Microsoft partnered with IBM for portions of the code but also created a branch of DOS called…
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Failure to use Encryption to protect data privacy is NOT an “encryption loophole” …
…it’s an architectural choice, driven by expediency, that rapidly becomes entrenched as it conveniently serves political & business interest. Disagree? Explain to me why so much of DNS is still in cleartext, and why so many encrypted replacement protocols fail to solve the privacy & integrity issues? MIT Technology Review: Almost every Chinese keyboard app…