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If I was the NSA in 2013, still smarting from a Snowden-induced loss of capability, I’d go long on hiring smart nerds to do research whilst building a credible yet overblown threat narrative for extant cryptosystems…
…with the intention of getting the world to rapidly, even panickedly migrate from burned backdoors towards new, largely untested-in-battle algorithms that we’d be in a far better position to game than anyone else. Meanwhile, elsewhere in news: NIST to deprecate Elliptic Curve by 2035: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf “Me? Trust NIST? Oh for some things, certainly…”
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Speaking as a former Sun Microsystems employee, I look forward to Chrome being purchased by (e.g.) Oracle & taken closed-source, thereby killing an entire browser ecosystem
All bets are off when a huge open source platform like Solaris or Chrome is sold off, and we can see from the diverse installed Solaris ecosystem today how successful the various Solaris “forks” were at individual survival. Chrome will die and take all its progeny, except maybe Edge, with it. DOJ Will Push Google
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Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law
One must wonder whether they chose to use the same metric (key length and/or lack of escrow) as the USA once did to determine whether encryption is haram? https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistani-religious-body-declares-using-vpn-is-against-islamic-law-/7865991.html
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NMS Ceefax | …this is gloriously retro and tremendously well done
https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/
Fediverse reactions
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“The teenagers who read Foucault are in pitched battle with the teenagers who read Rand, whilst the teenagers who read Tolkien, Vonnegut or Adams watch, agog at the technical misapprehension…”
<trying to explain the world of online regulation to someone>
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UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs | The Guardian
On the other hand think how cheap the cheeses will be in the UK because they cannot escape, and how many of the cheese makers will go bankrupt as a result. Oh wait, is that a Brexit dividend? Farrand pointed out that cheeses from countries that were “typically much more difficult to import for the
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I really like this apparently proposed design for the Serbian 100 dinar
It’s bold and I think it’s cool.
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3rd edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering now freely available for download | Light Blue Touchpaper
Thanks, Ross. We miss you. https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2024/11/12/sev3-download/
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I feel that the defining attribute of Bluesky is the number of users who follow ~10 people, are followed by ~10 people, and yet who block 1000+ people; it’s not *bad* per-se…
…but it does give me the lingering sense that the platform is largely populated by people who feel the thing social networking most lacks is a sufficiently refined echo-chamber.
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“The authors of this book met by chance on Twitter, and together launched Noticing Nature: the British microseason project (@Naturalcalendar) on which this book is based”
I just bought a book in the currently being opened Blue Bear Bookshop in Hartley Wintney, and this inscription is in the inside back cover. Unlike many folk of late I am not abandoning Twitter/X because I have a communications job to do and I’m taking it anywhere that people will listen. My content will