Alec Muffett

@alecmuffett
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everybody deserves good security.
https://alecmuffett.com/about

This account gets used for comments and replies and general Mastodon interaction, because WordPress ActivityPub is not quite good enough for that yet.

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Alec Muffett6h ago
A bug on the dark side of the Moon
https://alecmuffett.com/article/155136
#apollo #bugs #software
A bug on the dark side of the Moon

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) is one of the most scrutinised codebases in history … We found a bug in it that had been missed for fifty-seven years: a resource lock in the gyro control code th…

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Alec Muffett1d ago
The trial lawyers come for online free speech | Blaze Media
https://alecmuffett.com/article/154743
#Section230 #censorship
The trial lawyers come for online free speech | Blaze Media

Trial lawyers are poised to accomplish in courtrooms nationwide what politicians have thus far failed to write into statute. The effects of this effort — undertaken without the deliberation of the …

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Alec Muffett1d ago
New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption | Schneier on Security
https://alecmuffett.com/article/154741
#EndToEndEncryption #censorship #encryption #meta
New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption | Schneier on Security

Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general:

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Alec Muffett2d ago
I don't know how many people this will resonate with, but it's probably quite a narrow set who'll appreciate why the most revolutionary app I've adopted in the past 12 months has been #Zotero for Android. And also why I need more sleep.
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@neil these people should consult for OFCOM.
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@yacc143 @LukefromDC

Wait until you find out about ARPAnet.

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@LukefromDC @yacc143

https://xkcd.com/538/

^ you need to read this.

Security

xkcd
Show threadAlec Muffett4d ago

@LukefromDC @yacc143

Also:

https://alecmuffett.com/article/166

palladium

from Lot of talk this week about Microsoft’s new bluesky project: In the softest of previews in Newsweek, Steven Levy banged on about PALLADIUM, alluding to the sacred (but as it turns out, a…

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@LukefromDC @yacc143

Yes, I remember.

https://alecmuffett.com/article/173

more on microsoft palladium

Palladium is a plan from Intel, AMD, and Microsoft to build security into personal computers and servers at the microprocessor level. Assuming that enough users buy computers with Palladium capabil…

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@LukefromDC @yacc143

Jolly good.