The Command Line

According to The Register, the US Deputy Attorney General is now saying that technology companies don't need to install back doors in their encryption--provided they can reveal plain text of all secure communications on demand.

I am surprised we haven't seen this kind of thing previously.

Wherever you may fall on the budget concerns of an uncapped program like Lifeline, Jon Brodkin's piece contains enough to worry about in terms of Pai's continuing dismantling of his predecessors service to the public interest.

This piece Cory shares works on a couple of levels. 1st is the simple history of how tech workers interfered with the Nazis, a theme that reminds me in all the best ways of the history and historical fiction I have read around WWII code making and breaking

Why is this still a thing?

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This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

Far too early to guess how this may play out.

Not surprising that they originate from an RSA paper on public key cryptography.

This reminds me of other research I've read about over the years to add other kinds of custom processors into the many core mix that is now prevalent even on mobile devices.

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Literally living history.

Sean Gallagher at Ars does an admirable job of breaking down a security topic, threat modeling, that doesn't get much attention outside of research and professional circles.

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After only a year with a paid authority, I gladly switched to the free and open certificate authority that EFF helped stand up.

Jason Koebler's write up at Motherboard explains that the Copyright Office is essentially tired of granting the same exemption to the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause for the right to repair locked down devices.

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Chris Lee at Ars explains some new research that could fill in a critical piece needed for a practical quantum computer, a way of storing multiple qubits similar to a register in a classical computer so more sophisticated computation and communication can…

An unfortunate update explained well by Joe Mullin at Ars.

Jon Brodkin at Ars leavens his coverage of the fight for network neutrality with this advice on writing a good comment to the FCC.

I love Lin Clark's code cartoons, as much for her incredibly clear explanations as for her fearless choice of advanced and in-the-weeds topics.

Sebastian Anthony at Ars shares a good level of detail on what's new and worthwhile in the just released Firefox 54.

A tidy bit of analysis by a friend and former colleague of mine, Kevin Bankston.

The morning after each podcast release, I give the episode listen for quality and correctness.

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Gnu Privacy Guard, an open source crypto tool compatible with OpenPGP and laterally supporting dozens of different uses is trying to raise funds for a few months of some additional developers time.

Brian Barrett at Wired has a good explainer on the challenges of scaling as the backbone of Moore's Law.

Nitasha Tiku at Wired has a fascinating look at a potential shift in competition law with regards to technology, fueled by trends in privacy and big data.

Klint Finley at Wired shares a good summary of the findings an some research Github conducted to understand the diversity of open source contributors.

Mike Loukkides defines defensive computing through a few examples and more importantly argues in broad strokes why we need it.

Some good news in the realm of copyright, the US Supreme Court has ruled against Lexmark in their attempt to lock out the ability to re-manufacture and sell ink cartridges at much more reasonable prices.

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This Wired article makes me think of @starstryder and helps me understand in retrospect why she and I have chatted so much about programming and tech over the years despite our very different fields.

Hardly surprising that Comcast would sink to both astroturfing then trademark bullying to try to keep it hidden.

The Hill has the details of Blackburn's bill which are exactly what the right said they wanted when they repealed the FCC's pending privacy rules.

First a warning that this blog post contains not safe for work language, in the form of a few expletives here and there.

Whitney Quesenbery at The Atlantic discusses research at the Center for Civic Design.

I am utterly fascinated by how far back many of the antecedents of modern software go.

As Hillicon Valley notes, this is just the first step of what will take several months either way.

I stopped using Thunderbird some time ago in favor of the email client that is part of my Linux distribution.

Research like this comes right out of some of my favorite fiction.

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Saw this on Boing Boing, thanks again to Cory.

I saw this on Boing Boing thanks to Cory, who found it via jwz.

Schatz's criticism is on a procedural basis.

The contours of this move to repeal are similar to the privacy rules repeal.