The first time I flew after lockdowns, when I was early transition, I knew I wouldn't really pass at the TSA, and I didn't. They were fine about it, but as I was putting my shoes on, an older gentleman-looking person came over to me, leaned down, and whispered:

"I admire you. If I was younger, or the world was different, maybe I'd have the courage too."

She didn't give me a chance to reply, just slipped back into the chaos of the checkpoint.

That conversion still haunts me, and every time I fly, I look for her at the checkpoint. I've never found her again.

I hope she found her way.

30 years ago, Bob Morris, then a senior scientist at NSA, gave a keynote talk at the CRYPTO conference (the leading conference for academic cryptographers).

He opened by telling us he would reveal the NSA's first rule for cryptanalysis (which certainly got our attention). "First", he said, "look for cleartext. You'll usually find it."

True words, and enduring, too.

Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested after a cyberattack on nursery chain Kido.

Police say the pair tried to extort the company by leaking photos of children, alongside the names, addresses and contact details of their parents and carers. 6,000 pre-school kids and 20,000 parents PII was breached.

Source:
https://therecord.media/kido-nursery-school-chain-hack-arrests-britain

"Ovrdrive is a purpose built security focused usb drive. If the user doesn't plug it in three times rapidly, the drive it will appear completely blank."

huh

https://github.com/o7-machinehum/ovrdrive

In Moscow, yet another person who was a liability to Putin "falls out of a window".

This time it is Vyacheslav Leontyev, who knew details about the wealth of Putin's inner circle.

https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/06/russian-newspaper-head-mysteriously-falls-70ft-death-a-window-24350070/amp/

#Putin #defenestration

2AM, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, but not much else open, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52991590112

#photography