SwiftOnSecurity

It's literally physical metadata. Which, like all documents with metadata, is hazardous to share raw with a motivated opposing party. 2/4

But just disclosing to the government that there was a physical artifact, reduced search scope to just a few people. Everything's logged 3/4

There is lots of great commentary by actual NatSec people on this incident. Just wanted to assuage any panic microdots are newfangled. 4/4

EFF even published a video on how microdots work in Oct 2008. It's *old news* and well known.

One of the challenges in training new talent is the vast body of legacy knowledge that complements bleeding edge.

We used to call 'legacy' tribal knowledge in my circles at a few companies.

right. basically it's the facts. Why math majors don't take calculus first. The building blocks matter.

Not the same kind of microdot. It's more like a UPC written in Braille.

Thanks for taking aaaalllll the fun out of twitter yet again. We know. You don't need to help. There are many kinds of microdots.

I'm not the one trying to use a James Bond movie to mansplain to Taylor Swift.

I was making a small joke TO THE THREAD (that's how this works), not explaining this to Tay who obviously knows.

in the picture they are taking a bath, not looking at microdots.

I'm not sure if this micro feud was orchestrated but you two should take this kind of bickering to more tweets. It was hilarious.