Thomas Rid

@RidT

Author of RISE OF THE MACHINES

King's College London
Joined January 2009

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    . We're delighted to be working with you Tim. Congratulations again. Very exciting times ahead at War Studies.

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    We deployed a highly trained cyber-SOF unit to the crisis simulation in Geneva —

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    GCHQ stopped rollout of smart meters after power companies proposed to use a single decryption key for 53m meters.

  4. .The early-1990s cypherpunk dream, after all, seems to be coming true—at least for now

  5. “The encryption genie is out of the bottle,” says WhatsApp's Jan Koum, rolling out end-to-end crypt to ~1B users

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    Craig Wright is going to out himself as Satoshi Nakamoto by performing a "cryptographic miracle"! So ready for this.

  7. MI6 double agent Philby gave secret lecture to Stasi, 1981 tape found in archive—a coup for cc

  8. Thomas Rid followed , , and
    • @k8em0

      Bug bounty & vuln disclosure consultant. ISO editor. Hacker. MIT Sloan visiting scholar. New America Fellow. Harvard Belfer affiliate.

    • @willscarlett

      Practitioner of three Ps: publishing, publicity, and pizza. Sometimes pretzels.

  9. Slow but elegant

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    Fascinating & valuable: Cyber Vault, new US cyber natsec archive 1979+ c/o

  11. Eerie NSA art—Mondo 2000-style—illustrating 'information warfare,' from classified internal magazine CRYPTOLOG, 1995

  12. IS use crypt. No surprise. No reason to limit encryption. A good reason for aggressive, targeted intelligence work.

  13. "Defence groups take aim at cyber security" — BAE's revenue growth in infosec up 18%; best quote by

  14. "Inconceivable that, inconceivable the power of cyber." This is just so brilliant. Trump on CYBER:

  15. .(Coulibaly did not place the order himself). Details from this extraordinary, chilling SPIEGEL investigation:

  16. Hyper Cacher-terrorist Coulibaly carried 2 Ceska vz.58 assault rifles (1961) & 2 Tokarev TT33s (1951), ordered from

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