Scientist, safecracker, writer, professor. 280 is the new 140 is the new 1536. He/Him. Not a paid subscriber. Mastodon: https://nitter.cf/t.co/RAvcgh3JqM
Washington and elsewhere.
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So I have some news.
After 14 amazing years at Penn, I'm moving to a unique new gig at Georgetown. Starting this semester, I'll be the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law, where I'll focus on interdisciplinary research and teaching that bridges CS and law/public policy.
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The Voting Village is the world’s most reliable, non-partisan source of US voting information. But the @defcon 32 Voting Village needs your help. We are close to our fundraising goals, but we still need help. Please consider donating to protect democracy. votingvillage.org/donate
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Our Call For Papers for @DEFCON is open until July 1! Two day speaker track. Visit our website votingvillage.org/cfp to submit.
The Voting Village is ran by our 501(c)(3), the Election Integrity Foundation. We are currently self funded and would be grateful for any donations.
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And it is a wrap! @VotingVillageDC is CLOSED! @defcon #defcon Thank you everyone for an amazing event! We hope you come back to see us next year! Special thanks for our amazing speakers, volunteers, security, and my co-organizers @catlovesvoting and @mattblaze! We also want to thank our guest election systems provider for joining us.
While our mission is educational, this year the attendees found 6 new vulnerabilities in 5 different systems. Countless items have identified and reported for further research.
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Отмечая первую годовщину российского полномасштабного вторжения в Украину, ФБР приглашает к сотрудничеству сотрудников РФ, обладающих секретной или закрытой информацией. Вы хотите изменить своё будущее? Связаться с сотрудниками ФБР можно в Signal по номеру +1-771-201-4210.
The 2023 VotingVillage call for participation is out! See link at top of our web page.
Also, some exciting news! We formed a 501(c)(3), the Election Integrity Foundation, to run the Village. We're currently funding this out of our pockets and would be grateful for any donations.
Call For Papers for @DEFCON is open till June 19! 2 day speaker track. Visit our website votingvillage.org & click the link to the CFP in the upper right hand corner. Proposals for other forms of participation invited.
#NationalSecurity #ElectionSecurity #ElectionIntegrity
If you’re looking for a new life, these folks would be happy to chat.
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ICYMI: I'm no longer actively posting here, and check my Twitter DMs and mentions only very rarely. To the extent I'm on social media, I've mostly moved to Mastodon, where I can be found at: federate.social/@mattblaze
ICYMI: I'm no longer actively posting here, and check my Twitter DMs and mentions only very rarely. To the extent I'm on social media, I've mostly moved to Mastodon, where I can be found at: federate.social/@mattblaze
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I'm not closing my account, but I'm also not posting much here any more. A much better place to find me as this place becomes an increasingly pale shadow of its former self is at federate.social/@mattblaze
I'm not closing my account, but I'm also not posting much here any more. A much better place to find me as this place becomes an increasingly pale shadow of its former self is at federate.social/@mattblaze
As this hellsite reinstates various loathsome trolls, spare a thought for the first amendment scholars here trying in vain to explain the difference between government censorship and private moderation for the hundredth gazillion time.
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Also, it's worth remembering that, if things go really downhill, Twitter's creditors will have roughly three major assets to sell off:*
1 - The Twitter brand name
2 - A lot of high-end office furniture
3 - A ton of extremely revealing user data
* not listed in order of value.
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The bad things I'm worried about as Twitter implodes don't involve spectaular interruptions of service (though that will suck), but quiet data breaches and account compromises.
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No one said he shouldn't reduce costs. But he's doing it in a way that has a high risk of destroying the brand. (E.g, firing or chasing out all the policy and legal people). The main asset of Twitter is the enormous network. Lose that, and nothing else matters.
Imagine thinking that the main problems and conflicts of a forum that serves hundreds of millions of people from every corner of humanity involve "inadequately hardcore engineers".
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I remember the old saying, “Better to be thought a fool than to buy Twitter and remove all doubt.”
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To give you a sense of how hard this is, trained covert intelligence officers have trouble effectively hiding their social graphs after operating for only a few weeks.
Protecting content is (relatively) easy. Protecting metadata is extremely hard.
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