October 30, 2021

I wrote a (long!) post about “One-Time Programs”, what they are, and some new work that tries to make them work on commodity hardware like your iPhone.

I got asked the other day if there are any advice for those wanting to get more into vuln research. Off the top of my head I didn’t give a great answer! So here’s 5 things now I have actually thought more about it more:

A breach of a Prime Minister's phone by hostile intelligence services is a huge information security concern. Consequently, security experts recommend changing your Prime Minister every 6 weeks to limit your vulnerability to these types of attacks

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

Footage of that time BBC2 mistakenly dubbed over Gomez Addams’ voice in a 1989 repeat of The Addams Family because of Thatcher’s voice restrictions

The man with possibly the toughest job at Twitter right now is @yoyoel He has to explain to the world’s richest man that a lot of the seemingly new novels moderation ideas he has for the company he just bought are just what Twitter has been trying to do for years.