Security geek. Dilettante academic. Political junky. Maker of bad math puns. He/they Opinions represent the voices in my head.
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Rolling back to the Kremlin. Today’s cartoon by Piet. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
Someone left their potato in a voting booth (Hungarian parliamentary elections, April 12, 2026)
https://www.reddit.com/r/hungary/s/UP9o6cg8KJ
This is a way of saying, “I reject the governing party’s bribe.” #hungary #hungary2026 #o1g
Over on r/hungary I am seeing the word “rendszerváltás” (system change) get used a lot now that voting has started in an election that really may oust Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party.“Rendszerváltás” was a word used often in the early 1990s, and it is very hopeful.
It is, in my view, a bit too hopeful. Fidesz has taken control of too many institutions and media that even with clear majority in parliament, I worry that that Peter Magyar and the Tisza party will not be able to govern.
I have been reciting Algorhyme to my network gear to remind it there there is no graph lovelier than a (spanning) tree.
I have now had to disable WiFi AP meshing capabilities, which I wanted as a fall back, but things can get loopy when some switch decides that CAT5 isn't good enough for it.
(And yes, I have set STP priorities on all the switches.)
@SteveBellovin, I also had the pleasure of explaining many of the jokes and allusions to a younger generation.
For example, you mentioned the Bank of San Seriffe. This led not only to me explaining that number of digits of decimal expansion of 𝜋 I know depends of the number of bugs found in TeX, but on the dangers of using knowledge of a record locator, such as a bank account numbers, as an authentication proof.
@SteveBellovin, do you have any objection to me blogging on a site named rethinking-security.org ? If you do object, I will find another name. And I will make it clear that I am not you, but that the name is an allusion to Thinking Security.
I want to talk about cases where conventional wisdom (in various circles) may need some rethinking.
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