Jim Lippard

@lippard

I like infosec, history and philosophy of science and technology, skepticism.

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    So it's now been reported that the New Yorker Fest has blinked and killed their Steve Bannon interview, but— okay, seriously, why does Steve Bannon have a *speaker slot* at 's New York "Open Future Festival"?

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    14 hours ago

    Have you ever wondered why the meaning of sorting in computing (ordering or ranking) is different from its everyday meaning (dividing into piles or categories)? The answer has to do with the history of sorting going back 130 years and turns out to be really interesting.

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    17 hours ago

    OK, folks, I hear that John McAfee claims to have invented cyber security. (I don't know; he has blocked me.) Gather 'round the fire, kids, for a short story, because I was around at the time.

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    Sep 2

    If you're upset that they issued a warrant to monitor Carter Page without holding a hearing, you might be interested in some other amazing details about how the system works. (Thread.)

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    Sep 2

    "It would be a gross betrayal of democracy to allow the voters to vote on the actual deal arising from the astoundingly poorly designed referendum my incompetent predecessor called for" OK

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    Paul Allen.

    The tax bill continues to do the job it was intended for.
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    Sep 2

    As anyone who's read my work knows, I'm not a historian who's written about LBJ (not that there's anything wrong with that).

    Leftist historians like and have given a fraudulent puncture of LBJ to excuse the crimes of their own party. Here we meet the real priapic bigot & discover the cynical reason he backed the Civil Rights Act
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    Sep 1

    1. McCain's funeral was very moving and appropriately political (as befits the funeral of a major political figure). But it also reflected the weakness of a certain type of politics, Decency Resistance or Ancien Régime Resistance.

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    Sep 2

    David Hogg helps raise thousands to place billboard of Trump's anti-Cruz tweet in Texas

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    Sep 2

    HELSINKI SUMMIT UPDATE: We still don't know exactly what TRUMP & PUTIN agreed to. BUT, I can now report that the White House Communications Agency's team did in fact produce a challenge coin commemorating the occasion. Alas, it does not feature the faces of Trump & Putin.

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    Sep 1

    Everyone should follow suit. There are 40,456 vacancies in VA's health administration. Every vacancy means slower, less deliberate care and overworked staff. VA decided to tell people this 240 seconds before the start of a holiday weekend

    VA wanted you to miss it’s legally mandated release of its staff vacancy data(45,000 unfilled jobs), so it sent it at 4:56 on a Friday before a holiday weekend. Don’t worry, I will be reposting this every day for the next week.
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    Sep 2

    FISA was passed *forty years ago*, in 1978. You never heard a peep from the right about alleged abuse of the process. Guess it's OK to surveil spies...unless the spy happens to be helping Republican candidates in which case we should let them carry on. 🙄

    Always fascinating to see Congress expressing shock that the legal and national security systems it created are operating as Congress required them to.
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    Sep 2

    yes, a one-night event starring two disgraced grifters who have become media figures is probably the same as intentionally adopting a "the worse the better" strategy while the planet burns.

    I don’t want to hear shit about the Green Party from the Democrats ever again
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    Kinda would destroy the point of secret surveillance to have adversarial proceedings. I guess and want us to give, say, Iranian intel and ISIS sleeper cells a heads up before we listen in. That'll be super helpful to national security, guys. 👍🏽

    Conservative pundits like and have expressed “shock” that a judge granted authority to wiretap Carter Page based on evidence, with no hearing. What exactly do they think would happen at a hearing? Carter Page wouldn’t be present—it’s a secret wiretap.
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    This is pretty convincing: Left: Stormy Right: Shera

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    Jul 3

    Paul Campos's theory that Donald Trump was the one who had an affair with Shera Bechard, and that Elliott Broidy is covering for him, is one of those things that seemed unlikely at first. But it now seems quite plausible, and if so, it's a big story.

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    Aug 31

    New: turns out Google's new hardware 2FA token is produced by a Chinese company. Several senior security experts call for more transparency on supply chain, firmware. “I should not have to wait until Black Hat next year to find answers to these questions"

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    Sep 1

    Too bad plants are among the dirtiest in the southwest. Do you mean "keep at 6% and 30-40% ? Put $457 MILLION into 48 yr old Four Corners for pollution controls, FINALLY? pls check out , it's amazing...

    Keep AZ’s energy clean and affordable. Vote NO on Prop 127.
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    Sep 2

    Alan Moore on THE PRISONER: (I'm pretty sure the "ergodic storytelling" question is there because the interviewer mixed up Moore with Grant Morrison; if so, it's a good thing for everyone that Moore either didn't pick up on it or politely played dumb.)

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