Thomas Rid

@RidT

Author of RISE OF THE MACHINES

King's College London
Joined January 2009
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  2. Apr 9 City of London, London

    Misleading: Could Tor HS be improved to reduce abuse?—'No' is unimaginative, self-defeating

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    Apr 8 London, England

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

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    Apr 7 Geneva, Switzerland

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

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    8:14 AM - 7 Apr 2016 · Details
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    Apr 7

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

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  6. Apr 5

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

    9:04 AM - 5 Apr 2016 · Details
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  7. Apr 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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  8. Apr 5 City of London, London

    Impressive: Silicon Valley startup Zipline to pioneer medical delivery drones in Rwanda by July cc

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    Apr 4

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

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  10. Apr 4 City of London, London

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

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    • Katie Moussouris
      @k8em0

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

    • Will Scarlett
      @willscarlett

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

  12. Apr 3 City of London, London

    Slow but elegant

    10:40 AM - 3 Apr 2016 · Details
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    Mar 30

    Why does US name & shame hackers? 's , 's & comment

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    Mar 30

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

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  15. Mar 29 South East, England

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

    5:37 PM - 29 Mar 2016 · Details
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  16. Mar 29

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

    Deep dive by into how ISIS plans & executes attacks in Europe
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  17. Mar 29 City of London, London

    Why Apple now wants a doughnut as well—great piece on 'Hippie Modernism' in Silicon Valley

    12:19 AM - 29 Mar 2016 · Details
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  18. Mar 28 City of London, London

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

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  19. Mar 26 City of London, London

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

    11:28 AM - 26 Mar 2016 · Details
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  20. Mar 26 City of London, London

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

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  21. Mar 26 City of London, London

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

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