The United States congress is considering banning cryptocurrency mining to combat climate change. Image via @BitcoinMagazine

It was mentioned that “all US mining uses 100% renewables. This is to have them show receipts to prove it.” And honestly, I’m kinda ok with that. OTOH, it’s renewables that isn’t being used for regular stuff and thus forces non renewable use, but I think it probably also provides strong incentives to increase renewable deployment (and pay for it). Which lowers costs of renewables which helps get them more widely deployed fast… assuming that is the second order effect, it’s probably net positive?

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Military Pigeons @MilitaryPigeons

The Swedish Military’s Pigeon Service: 1886 – 1949

pigeonsofwar.wordpress.comThe Swedish Military’s Pigeon Service: 1886 – 1949A lot of ink has been spilled about military pigeons and their heroic actions during wartime. But what about those in peacetime armies? This blog is part of an occasional series examini…

4:13 AM ∙ Sep 9, 2022

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When SIGINT meant hawks. (Not actually in here, just amusing)

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People adjust their opinions to match everyone else’s opinions. But they also badly misjudge what everyone else’s opinions are.

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Microsoft Security Intelligence @MsftSecIntel

Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) was engaged to lead the investigation on destructive cyberattacks launched against the Albanian government in mid-July. We assess that the attack was launched by an Iranian state-sponsored actor. Full report:

microsoft.comMicrosoft investigates Iranian attacks against the Albanian government - Microsoft Security BlogShortly after the destructive cyberattacks on the Albanian government in mid-July, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) was engaged to lead an investigation into the attacks.

3:05 PM ∙ Sep 8, 2022

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Jonathan Metzman @metzmanj

We published a blogpost on SystemSan - our sanitizer for command injection which found a remote code execution vulnerability in tinygltf.