2024

links, etc just cranked through the latest issue of CACM. some stuff to point back at. Misinformation Campaigns through WhatsApp and Telegram in Presidential Elections in Brazil | Communications of the ACM this was a disturbing read. brazil was wracked by lots of misinfomration campaigns being actively run over WhatsApp. journalists had no ability to keep up with the firehose of misinformation, and it was impossible to know how viral the content was in terms of its distribution....

links, etc White House Report: U.S. Federal Agencies Brace for $7.1 Billion Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration this is an interesting intersection between the state of at-rest encryption and where we can plausibly be wrt quantum computing over a project horizon. (the project here being upgrading the stored content to be encrypted with post-quantum crypto.) wow - quantum computing’s come a lot further than i’ve been tracking.

links, etc runZeroInc/sshamble: SSHamble: Unexpected Exposures in SSH well, this makes for some interesting reading and novel exposures that i hadn’t really thought of. as a i go through removing some of my old ssh keys (due to quitting my current gig) this is something to think of. perhaps having these published isn’t such a hot idea.

the happiness curve: why life gets better after 50 (jonathon rauch) i’m honestly not sure what to make of this book. i was about to drop it about halfway through. the first half is a regurgitation of the “U” curve “discovery” coming at it from various angles. to summarize, happiness is a U-shaped curve that has its trough in middle age, precise placement of the trough varies to some degree by culture and seems to move slightly to the right with life expectancy and our cultural recognition of new stages of life....

links, etc An Insider’s View of the Love Affair Between Hungary and the American Right - TPM – Talking Points Memo much has been made of the conservative love with orban and hungary. none of that is encouraging. what’s less covered in much of the reporting on this that you see in the US is the environment that this was allowed to take place in, within hungary. there are a number of interesting things to take away from in this article which looks at this from the perspective of an actual hungarian with some context....