Cryptography
The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters
by Keith Martin
This was a great look at every day encryption usage and why it is important. It's not technical or made for security professionals: it's for everyone. Very accessible and almost fun to read. I loved the analogies and thought experiments to explain what are usually very complex topics.
#cryptography #privacy #books 
Gillian Anderson?
Reznor and Ross (as Nine in Nails) soundtrack?
Sign me up
#movies #tronares
Took me a while to warm up to it. Started using it in production last year and glad we did.
Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites
The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison.
The government intends to treat the prison as a black site where migrants have no constitutional rights whatsoever and may be subject to any treatment whatsoever—including indefinite detention, forced labor, torture, or death.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-administration-cecot-black-site-el-salvador.html
think I’m back to using YakiHonne. Primal notifications seem borked. And recently the new wallet connect/connected apps shows incorrect balances (but works)
Always be spreading the word
Real Genius was always playing on a loop when I was a kid #ripVal
“As part of its efforts, the bloc has repeatedly introduced its Chat Control legislation, aimed at weakening the encryption that protects messaging services and force providers to provide a client-side backdoor for law enforcement.”
#privacy
https://www.webpronews.com/eu-possibly-emerging-as-one-of-the-greatest-threats-to-privacy/
Looks like Elon couldn’t buy that Wisconsin seat.
Congrats to Susan Crawford for defeating her opponent, a large bag of cash.
Talking Lynch in there. Let me in!
Windows NT is pronounced "Win Doesn't"
out here encrypting things in the wild
#yubikey #encryption # privacy
It's the 26th anniversary of The Matrix. Released on March 31st, 1999, making cinematic history and forever leaving its mark on the Sci-Fi genre.
#TheMatrix #Movies #Matrix
saw this wifi network on my flight. should I join?
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.
#cryptography
I don’t trust them or the ARRL. Maybe get rid of the baud rate limits on VHF and 70cm. Leave the rest as is. They just want to sell it off.
I’m case you needed yet another reason to ditch Windows:
Soon you will HAVE to have a Microsoft account to use Windows.
“Microsoft has removed the 'BypassNRO.cmd' script from Windows 11 preview builds, which allowed users to bypass the requirement to use a Microsoft Account when installing the operating system.”