Pluralistic: 09 Nov 2022 Delegating trust is really, really, really hard (infosec edition)

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Delegating trust is really, really, really hard (infosec edition): Who knows what secrets lurk in your browser's root certificate store?
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Pluralistic: 20 Sep 2022 Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority

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Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority: The moral majority is neither.
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Pluralistic: 22 Apr 2022

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Don't believe Obama's Big Tech criti-hype: They're not evil geniuses (they're not geniuses, period).
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Pluralistic: 05 Jul 2021

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Conspiracy fantasy: The political significance and personal appeal of conspiratorialism.
Podcasting "Self Publishing": My column on monopolism, publishing, and the fortunes of authors.
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Pluralistic: 08 Jun 2021

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Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.
Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly – think different?
Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius.
Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want.
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Pluralistic: 07 Feb 2021

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The FBI has never heard of me: And yet, somehow they managed to investigate me.
Compared to climate denial, Qanon is benign: The GOP already surrendered to conspiratorialism.
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Pluralistic: 31 Jan 2021

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Mashing the Bernie meme: What if every video game, except Bernie with mittens?
Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q: What if it's all a big fat lie?
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Pluralistic: 11 Jan 2021

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DC's security theater panned: The curtain-call's gonna be BRUTAL.
Weaponing and monetizing apophenia: 5G conspiracies have a business-model.
Awful voting-machine demands silence: ES&S; piggybacks censorship on Dominion's grievances.
Someone Comes to Town Part 27: My latest podcast installment.
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Pluralistic: 12 Nov 2020

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Constantly Wrong: "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Xi on interop and lock-in: Inkjet business model as foreign policy.
Anti-bear robo-wolves: Dr Tenma v lobo.
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