Signals

A Security Tale: A Timeline — the story of, and consequences of, one chap’s insane workload being the NZ security person for Equifax during the fallout from the breach. Perfect storm of remote management, global demands, outsourced team, outsourced cloud providers…and 18-hour days spent trying to cover your employer’s ass. He talks about the logistic […]

Quantum Supremacy: The Gloves are Off (Scott Aaronson) — Google demonstrated a quantum system that will be exponentially faster, as the number of qubits increases, than a classical system simulating the problem. IBM proposed a way of using the world’s most powerful classical supercomputer (Summit) to brute force a solution faster than the method listed

How Not to Rewrite it in Rust — A much better alternative is to reuse the original library and just publish a safe interface to it. As this comment on Lobsters says, Rust can add safety guarantees even to C code! When using a C library, you may need to know things such as “if

Memex — open source browser extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks. Competition Programming and Problem Solving, Fall 2019 — CMU course. Pwnagotchi 1.0.0 — I wanted Alpha and Beta to be able to detect each other and exchange with each other very basic information—but how do you communicate anything at all from

NSA Cybersecurity Directorate — The command center is staffed 24/7, and teams cycle in every 12 hours to monitor real-time internet activity and cyber threats as they unfold over the world. Its connectivity with global intelligence partners ensures immediate communication over global cyber crises. The article has a lot of “cyber” and uses phrases like

FaceForensics++: Learning to Detect Manipulated Facial Images — This paper examines the realism of state-of-the-art image manipulations, and how difficult it is to detect them, either automatically or by humans. To standardize the evaluation of detection methods, we propose an automated benchmark for facial manipulation detection. (GitHub) CS 230 — My twin brother Afshine and

Addicted to Screens? That’s Really a You Problem (NY Times) — In “Indistractable,” which was published last month, Mr. Eyal has written a guide to free people from an addiction he argues they never had in the first place. It was all just sloughing off personal responsibility, he figures. So the solution is to reclaim

Resilience Engineering Papers — This doc contains notes about people active in resilience engineering, as well as some influential researchers who are no longer with us, organized alphabetically. It also includes people and papers from related fields, such as cognitive systems engineering and naturalistic decision-making. Sweet 16 — a metaprocessor or “pseudo microprocessor” implemented in