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Easy Questions Are Boring: Heartbleed and the NSA: put your hand up if you've ever credited a responsible-disclosure vulnerability report to the NSA. Anybody? Anybody?

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Easy Questions Are Boring. Heartbleed and the NSA: put your hand up if you've ever credited a responsible-disclosure vulnerability report to the NSA. Anybody? Heartbleed is no doubt the worst security bug to hit the Internet in a very, very long time, and this comes hot on the heels of serious SSL certificate checking bugs in iOS and OpenSSL. Bloomberg says the NSA knew of Heartbleed. And said nothing. The ODNI forcefully denies this. Truly the NSA is a force for good in the world.". And Coverity would a...

Easy Questions Are Boring: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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Easy Questions Are Boring. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. So I was given this book as a present by my brother – thanks! 8211; which presented a good opportunity to read a book I’d normally never pick up; due to (a) what I know about Objectivism, and (b) what people who like Rand seem to get up to: see Paul Ryan, the Koch brothers, etc. To be judged in isolation from reality, as art for the sake of art, I’m happy to unload on the book as follows. There is one mother and one father in this book, that of Kea...

Easy Questions Are Boring: December 2014

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Easy Questions Are Boring. After I calmed down a bit, I was left merely deeply upset, that an institution supposedly dedicated to a God of love could get things so completely, terribly, heartbreakingly wrong. After the science, sociology and theology lessons comes a history of marriage, ancient (in the Bible) and modern (how did Christian marriage became the norm in Britain? In the Bible, marriage is mostly depicted as barbarically as you might expect in the Old Testament and as of little concern at first.

Easy Questions Are Boring: New Left Review - Rob Lucas: The Critical Net Critic

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Easy Questions Are Boring. New Left Review - Rob Lucas: The Critical Net Critic. New Left Review - Rob Lucas: The Critical Net Critic. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the thrust of this article, the technology world needs more of this kind of thinking. Completely rejecting the humanities at a cultural level means that the world of technology can be remarkably unreflective. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What I've read recently. Napsterisation - how to educate the world?

Easy Questions Are Boring: Bitcoin as a law enforcement/natsec honeypot: what is the evidence?

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Easy Questions Are Boring. Bitcoin as a law enforcement/natsec honeypot: what is the evidence? Appears to be the order of the day, given what we know about the NSA and GCHQ thanks to Edward Snowden. Absent from the stories so far is any mention of Bitcoin. I find this odd - Bitcoin is the most cypherpunky of all crypto technologies, after all. I want to make the case, without necessarily endorsing it, that we should be much more suspicious of Bitcoin than we are at present. In its design and execution.