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Oh, I didn’t know it was posted as recently as December, I just stumbled upon this again and assumed maybe not a lot of people have seen this recently
by mifydev 2y ago
Oh, I didn’t know it was posted as recently as December, I just stumbled upon this again and assumed maybe not a lot of people have seen this recently
- bigiain 2y agoHe's _such_ a great writer/speaker. It's totally worth reposting him every 3 month. I think this is my favourite piece of his, "This world of ours": https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
- dcminter 2y agoI thinkbhe's a better writer than speaker, but I suspect if I'd seen him speak first I'd have it the other way around. I love all his Usenix articles and they always cheer me up if I'm having a grumpy day at work.
- bigiain 2y agoFor me, acknowledging that: "YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON" is quite comforting at times. When I'm doing security related thinking at work (or at home), understanding that if a powerful nation state's security forces become "interested" in what you're doing means you've already lost, takes the pressure off striving for perfection and trying to design systems that are secure against "the global passive observer" who's already NSL-ed your TLS cert provider and your cloud host. I admire what Signal/WhisperSystems build, but the project we're building at work that's topologically equivalent to just another CRUD app can't afford and doesn't need to be secured against the NSA or any of their Fiveeyes henchmen.
- bigfishrunning 2y agoThis is the first time i've seen it, so you got one! thanks!