Techies often learn the "OSI Model" to explain networking. It's false, it describes IBM mainframes of the 1970s and not the modern Internet. I have some comments here. cybersect.substack.com/p/yes-osi-mo...

Some comments on the Louvre Heist relative to cybersecurity. cybersect.substack.com/p/louvre-jew...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

If you want to stand up for free-speech, the time to do it is when you own side is violating it, such as during Biden's pressuring Internet companies to censor "misinformation". If you only defend the speech of your own side, what you are defending is your side, not free-speech principles.

My sister lives in the Portland area and I'm trying to convince her to drive downtown to take video of the Rose City Antifa protests outside the ICE detention center.

"In 2025, Americans may be reading this novel with somewhat different eyes than in times gone by, when strongman rule, cult-like worship of leaders, and reality-denying propaganda were things that happened somewhere else." www.thebulwark.com/p/animal-far...

License plate readers are growing fast. These days, they are cheap to own and operate. Essentially, a $100 burner phone with a $5/month prepaid account can be made into a license plate reader. It's gonna solve a lot of crime, making it impractical to drive anywhere to commit crime.

you guys don't mock the president. my own grandfather was murdered when an escalator stopped, launching him 700 feet through a hotel lobby and into the open mouth of a waiting anaconda

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Lol. LMAO, even: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

James Comey was just indicted by a grand jury. Back in the Obama admin as FBI director, he defended government encryption backdoors by claiming that the DoJ would never abuse it's authority, and if it did, the courts would stop them. Has he changed his mind?

As far as I can tell, all the good people have been raptured.

As far as I can tell, all the good people have been raptured.

In yesterday's discussion of that UN SIM farm story, I mentioned the conflict between techies and the sorts of "people who matter" that the NYTimes quotes. Today, I write a blogpost that expands on that. cybersect.substack.com/p/techies-vs...

Current status: watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

"Well, there's your problem..." #DonaldTrump #Escalator

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Back in the day as a business owner, I think we had 2 H1B visa employees out of 100 employees. They added important skills we couldn't otherwise find, but not worth the added $100k each. There is a the "long tail" of small businesses where H1B is important.

It's hard to imagine @jasonleopold.bsky.social not getting tons of journalism awards.

Here's what a 35 mile radius to the UN building looks like. It's an absurd claim by the Secret Service on its face.

Also “concentrated within 35 miles of the U.N.”: - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - The events of The Great Gatsby - All 63 home losses by the Mets and Yankees - Five murders this year in Patterson, NJ - Gunshot wounds to Mary Jo Buttafuoco - The 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash

Thanks for the write up, the original story was driving me utterly insane. I was speaking to someone who was breathlessly repeating the guy saying his "instinct" was that it's espionage related. You know why he called it "instinct?" Because there's no god damn evidence for it.

But … but … they were concentrated within 35 miles of the U.N.!

Nexstar is asking the Trump administration to bend its rules to allow a merger to proceed. They have to censor Kimmel to appease the FCC. Sinclair may also care about regulators, but they are famously right-wing wing, so they may be doing so out of their own interest (not censorship).

I'm sorry I'm late to the story, but here is my hottake on the Secret Service vs. SIM farm story. cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secre...

Blog "A history of kernel threads". Gather 'round children as an old timer explains. cybersect.substack.com/p/a-history-...

Well, yes, recovery codes are when everything has gone wrong and you need an emergency recovery. You wouldn't store those encrypted, what if you lost the encryption key???

Blog "A history of kernel threads". Gather 'round children as an old timer explains. cybersect.substack.com/p/a-history-...

Attorney Matthew Segal on the Kimmel story: “In my opinion, when companies or institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law. They are making educated guesses that the U.S. is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won’t matter.”

Current status: 150 pages into a "Vibe Sockets Handbook" about the Sockets API, and all the stuff you'll miss when asking AI to write the network code for you.

I'm not confident about this. The issue isn't the MMR vaccine (given at 1 year old forever), but the MMR+V, which is a recent development. It appears not a rejection of early MMR, just a rejection of the varicella component.

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

I'm surprised my use case, "romantic partner", isn't in the list.

A Texas Tech University student was arrested and spent a night in jail last week after making derogatory statements about Charlie Kirk during an on-campus vigil for the right-wing influencer, raising concerns among free-speech advocates.

September 15 is "Hackers" day as we celebrate the movie that came out 30 years ago today.

Two wrongs don't make a right. It was wrong of Apple, Amazon, and Google to remove Parler. It was wrong of the cancel culture that pressured tech companies into doing it. And it's still wrong.

My Republican boss, the late John Heinz, excoriated the ketchup gambit on the floor of the Senate when Reagan's people tried it, and said not only that it was bullshit, but then said that he shouldn't have to add that he knows a thing or two about ketchup

I was in D.C. the last few days and want to apologize to the National Guard for my initial hostile attitude (the sort shown here). They aren't the ones setting policy, they are humans just like the rest of us, following orders.

Japanese 7-11s are a much better experience than American convenience stores, but maybe that's because they sell better stuff, like Pocari Sweat and Calpis.

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

Imagine being the kind of person with the chutzpah to "explain" to Margaret Atwood what Margaret Atwood meant in The Handmaid's Tale

It is acknowledged around the world that America has perfected the art of cultural appropriation, such as this example of combining Italian and British cuisine.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

My friends on BlueSky deny the existence/problem of "cancel culture" on the left. As the right is now using cancel culture to harass employers to get them to fire employees critical of Charlie Chirk, I hope you might rethink this. This isn't just "consequences" of speech.

Two wrongs don't make a right. If the right thinks "cancel culture" is bad when the left does it, then it's still wrong when the right does it. Yes, the statement is sanctimonious. All principles are sanctimonious when they stand against you doing evil.