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1941 Pencil-and-Paper Cipher (14)
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Fascinating photo and explanation.Shared by atomantic (0) ax0n (24) Ben V (0) Doug (0) ema (0) Erik (0) J. James B (0) Matthew (13) Paul Parkinson (4) phillip (1) Raoul (7) stp (4) Traut (1) Xeus (3)- Traut said: real cool post and blog itself
- Paul Parkinson said: I am loving this posting.What a great insight to the world of WW2 crypto. I'm reading Cryptonomicon at the moment. Nice link up.
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Is Email = Efail? (55)
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While I've always practiced reasonable email hygiene, for the last 6 months I've been in near-constant email bankruptcy mode. This concerns me. Yes, it's partly my fault for being a world champion procrastinator, but I'm not sure it's entirely my fault. There are forces at work here, factors that easily outstrip the efforts of any one measly human being, no matter how tenacious and dogged. Or, as in my case, no matter how lazy. I've ...Shared by Alex (0) Andrew (0) Arvid (1) atomantic (0) byte (0) Cade (0) Chris Charabaruk (3) codefin (2) D-Arb (0) D. Lambert (0) Daniel J. Pritchett (3) Devlin D (0) Dominik (3) Donnie Berkholz (3) Doug (0) Elias Bizannes (0) Eric Schoonover (0) f.shamsi (0) Garrett LeSage (0) i80and (0) jackbravo (0) jerobins (0) Jesper Lind (0) JT (0) kenmat (0) L'oracolo (0) Lucindo (0) Mauro (0) Mike Cannon-Brookes (0) mjc (3) mr94 (1) Nigel James (4) Nikki (3) OnyxRaven (0) Pat Rice (0) Philippe Guglielmetti (0) phillip (1) Rajesh (0) Rene Cunningham (15) Ron (0) Roy (1) Russ (0) Ryan Joseph (0) salmonmoose (0) Sam (0) Sean (5) Shoshannah F (20) Srinidhi Venkatesh (0) Sunpech (0) Tom (4) vlvl (0) Xeus (3) Xi (0) Yasin (0) Yuvi (0)Explore read six notes- Tom said: "The blanket equation of email with failure is strong language indeed, but it's a serious problem. The intrinsically low effort-to-reward ratio of private email is not necessarily a new idea; as I said in When In Doubt, Make It Public, it's almost never in anyone's best interest to keep their communications locked into private silos of any kind, email or otherwise. Why answer one person's email directly when I could potentially answer a thousand different people's email with a single blog post?"so true! this is why i love bcc so much!
- Ryan Joseph said: Email requires more of an interface cognitive load tax than instant messaging. People naturally put much more into an email, perhaps in an unconscious effort to amortize that email interface tax overhead across more content. People feel that since they are already "bothering" to write an email, they might as well take the time to go into all kinds of detail, perhaps even adding a few more things that they're thinking about.
- Daniel J. Pritchett said: I never get tired of reading anti-email articles! "What we can to combat the email = efail problem? Take Tantek's advice: whenever possible, avoid sending email. Not because we don't want to communicate with our peers. Quite the contrary. We should avoid sending email out of a deep respect for our peers -- so that they are free to communicate as effectively and as often as possible with us."
- L'oracolo said: L'e-mail è diventata un mezzo di comunicazione pesante - in una e-mail vogliamo essere più esaustivi che in un messaggio, finiamo per trattare troppi argomenti in parallelo e dopo un certo numero di "botta e risposta" andare avanti diventa un compito estremamente gravoso... se moltiplichiamo il tempo richiesto per il numero di potenziali corrispondenti, otteniamo qualcosa di davvero ingestibile.
- Jesper Lind said: EMAIL shall henceforth be known as EFAIL. - http://twitter.com/t/statuses/724032562
- Shoshannah F said: אני מזדהה עם הבעייה, אבל אני לא בטוחה שאני מסכימה עם הפתרון המוצע
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Government Can Determine Location of Cell Phones without Telco Help (15)
onInteresting: Triggerfish, also known as cell-site simulators or digital analyzers, are nothing new: the technology was used in the 1990s to hunt down renowned hacker Kevin Mitnick. By posing as a cell tower, triggerfish trick nearby cell phones into transmitting their serial numbers, phone numbers, and other data to law enforcement. Most previous descriptions of the technology, however, suggested that...Shared by Alan Dean (7) Armbar (0) atomantic (0) bennylope (3) cgsheldon (15) Crutis (2) Jason Adam Young (0) Jonathan (0) Kyle Weller (0) Logical Extremes (3) Raoul (7) soulcookie (1) Steven Perez (13) stp (4) Thomas (1)
- soulcookie said: Whoa.
- Jason Adam Young said: I don't know whether to be fascinated or annoyed - I think I lean toward fascinated.
- Logical Extremes said: "Triggerfish, also known as cell-site simulators or digital analyzers... By posing as a cell tower, triggerfish trick nearby cell phones into transmitting their serial numbers, phone numbers, and other data to law enforcement... In a post on the progressive blog Daily Kos, ACLU spokesperson Rachel Myers drew attention to language in several of those documents implying that triggerfish have broader application than previously believed."
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Genetic A/B Testing with JavaScript (28)
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I've long been interested in the concept of A/B testing (Also called split testing). It's a simple concept that should sit will with most mathematically-inclined types: You have a baseline interface in which you adjust a single variable, at random, for each user that visits your application. After a given amount of time you should be able to see if certain variables affect how your users behave (either negatively or positively). A product was recently ...Shared by 2ni (0) Adam (0) Alex (0) anddoutoi (0) atomantic (0) aurelian (0) blankyao (0) Clint (0) Ivan Žužak (0) Jeremy (0) Jilles Oldenbeuving (0) Johannes W. (0) Jonny (0) Kevin Marks (0) LouCypher (3) maninred (0) marchbox (1) MarcoGomes (0) Maurice Svay (1) mike (0) narcvs (0) ninsei2600 (2) Pedro Valente (0) psvensson (1) Sean (0) Tamlyn Rhodes (0) tig (0) yong27 (6)- Sean said: holy crap. guess I should polish up my ga4js library :)
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The Future of Ephemeral Conversation (44)
onWhen he becomes president, Barack Obama will have to give up his BlackBerry. Aides are concerned that his unofficial conversations would become part of the presidential record, subject to subpoena and eventually made public as part of the country's historical record. This reality of the information age might be particularly stark for the president, but it's no less true for all of us. Conversation used to be ephemeral. Whether face-to-face or by phone, we could ...Shared by Alan Dean (7) André (0) Andreas (0) atomantic (0) ax0n (24) Bill (0) Brad (0) Brendon Troy (0) chryss (0) CJ (20) Crutis (2) Dan (0) David (0) David Arcos (0) David Orban (0) Denubis (0) Gabriel (0) Graham Freeman (2) Grork (0) Hellblazer (0) Ian Mulvany (0) John Mueller (1) Justin Yost (1) Kevin Marks (0) kris. nuttycombe (0) lnewcomer (7) Logical Extremes (3) Matthew (13) Mike (3) Nathaniel Dean (0) Ognjen (7) past (0) Ricardo (0) Rick Dillon (0) Robby R (0) Robert Accettura (0) Robert Postill (1) Sam (0) Stef Lewandowski (0) steve t (16) Sue (2) tim (0) Tommaso Sorchiotti (1) tumbleweed (2)Explore read six notes
- Logical Extremes said: "But as technology makes our conversations less ephemeral, we need laws to step in and safeguard ephemeral conversation. We need a comprehensive data privacy law, protecting our data and communications regardless of where it is stored or how it is processed. We need laws forcing companies to keep it private and delete it as soon as it is no longer needed. Laws requiring ISPs to store e-mails and other personal communications are exactly what we don't need. Rules pertaining to government need to be different, because of the power differential. Subjecting the president's communications to eventual public review increases liberty because it reduces the government's power with respect to the people. Subjecting our communications to government review decreases liberty because it reduces our power with respect to the government."
- Robert Postill said: The classic security blogger Bruce Schneier just made the call for better privacy laws. I'm with Bruce and I'm all the more interested in that happening in the US given the amount of our data that flows across US networks.
- kris. nuttycombe said: "Until our CEOs blog, our Congressmen Twitter, and our world leaders send each other LOLcats – until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers– we aren't fully an information age society."
- past said: I've been having this conversation with friends a lot lately. It's nice to see Bruce Schneier take the words off my mind and put them on Wall Street Journal. I won't sue this time.
- Rick Dillon said: Brilliant.
- tumbleweed said: I keep IM logs because I find them useful. When I remember, I gpg-encrypt the archives. We all keep e-mail these days. Hmm.
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Gravity, Stay The Hell Away From Me (3)
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I find as I get older that fatherhood is little more than a series of painful reminders that I am, in fact, getting older. For example, I bought a tube of Ben-Gay this morning. I smell like a rotten candy cane, and that, as you know, is the scent of a convalescent home. Do you know how sad it is to buy a tube of analgesic ointment? What a crushing blow that is to one’s ...Contribute comment -
John Resig - Clickjacking iPhone Attack (13)
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- fishy said: 摘要：2.2之前的iPhone/iPod Touch有个bug会导致严重的钓鱼攻击。恭喜各位爱疯，赶紧升2.2吧
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November 21, 2008 (6)
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily) (7) permalink
- Tree said: best safeword ever.
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When Sky Marshals Do Bad Things (10)
onThey're not even close to perfect: Since 9/11, more than three dozen federal air marshals have been charged with crimes, and hundreds more have been accused of misconduct, an investigation by ProPublica, a non-profit journalism organization, has found. Cases range from drunken driving and domestic violence to aiding a human-trafficking ring and trying to smuggle explosives from Afghanistan. The meta-problem is that the kind of person who wants to be federal air marshal is the ...Shared by Andrew Boardman (0) atomantic (0) ax0n (24) Clint (0) devilok (0) Geoff Schultz (1) koppah (3) Patrick (1) Raoul (7) Steven Perez (13)
- ax0n said: Why does this not surprise me?
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RIAA Lawsuits May Be Unconstitutional (29)
onHarvard law professor Charles Nesson is arguing, in court, that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 is unconstitutional: He makes the argument that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 is very much unconstitutional, in that its hefty fines for copyright infringement (misleadingly called "theft" in the title of the bill) show that the bill is effectively a criminal statute, yet for a civil crime. That's ...Shared by anon (0) arryn (0) arturo.servin (2) Assaf Lavie (0) atomantic (0) Austin (0) ax0n (24) Ben (0) Ben Prince (3) Brettsky (0) cgsheldon (15) Christos Stathis (4) Crutis (2) daniel morgan (0) G Anson (0) Jason Adam Young (0) Jon (0) Kevin Marks (0) Kyle Weller (0) linuxchic (3) Mark (0) Matthew (13) Paul OFlaherty (0) Raoul (7) scherbi (0) steve t (16) Steven Perez (13) Stingray (0) wolfger (3)
- Mark said: Harvard law professor makes a compelling legal and political argument.
- Jason Adam Young said: Go Harvard!
- wolfger said: Copyright infringement is bad, but levying ridiculously large fines is criminal.
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xkcd - A Webcomic - A Bunch of Rocks (342)
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- daniel morgan said: This got me thinking about a constant fear of mine: that i'm missing fundamental aspects of the analytical world by NOT knowing Calculus.
- bbebop said: in the beginning...
- Josh Lewis said: This is the first comic in a long time that actually hurt my brain. And I even got to personally see someone from Wolfram (Wolfram himself? Can't recall) talk about some of the stuff referenced here.
- Vish said: The worst is when it is at 8'O clock in the morning and you are forced to skip your breakfast to get attendance. :(
- px said: "what a twist!"
- pigliapost said: Informatica romantica
- Jeffrey said: amazing.
- suren said: I love XKCD :D
- norti said: MUHAHAHAH
- Fernando said: poesía nerd
- thingol said: hatalmas
- Rob said: Darrell? This your class.
- Todd said: awesome.
- Derrick Burns said: Just maybe the best xkcd ever. Seriously.
- Lorita said: I'm thinking of you, Virgil.
- Egon Willighagen said: If you think progress in scientific publishing is taking long...
- Lee said: The most interesting thing I have read in months.
- Oleg Eterevsky said: P.S. Для понимания этого комикса нужно иметь в виду, что главный герой говорит о машине Тьюринга, а изображает одномерный клеточный автомат. См. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TuringMachine.html, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/UniversalCellularAutomaton.html
- Kluzter said: siempre me hab gustado las tiras largas de este señorón.
- Anoop said: woah ! now that's some deep shite .. ;)
- Casey said: awesome, Rima.
- Yves Junqueira said: Obra-prima do XKCD?
- SharonG said: "I'm sorry. I must have misplaced a rock".Thats probably what gods would say, no?
- Kraki said: @M&J: hahahaha... what are the chances you understand this?
- Marcus Bearden said: Life as we know it...
- gansodesoya said: wow
- Sejo said: genial
- marcell mars said: lijepo
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